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CDA Winner Plays Toronto Concert Jan. 15

The Royal Conservatory of Music has announced the addition of a joint recital featuring CDA winner Charles Richard-Hamelin and Tony Yike Yang, both winners at the recent International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The Conservatory concert takes place January 15 at 7:30 pm in Mazzoleni Concert Hall, located in historic Ihnatowycz Hall.
Both artists will perform works by Chopin.
Charles Richard-Hamelin won the WMCT’s $20,000 Career Development Award live competition last April and will play in the Music in the Afternoon 2016-17 season.

No Canadian has ever played in the finals of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition and this year there were two. Charles Richard-Hamelin, of Montreal, placed second and also won the Krystian Zimerman Prize for best performance of a sonata. Tony Yike Yang, of Toronto, placed fifth and at 16, was the youngest laureate in the history of the competition. The January concert is a unique opportunity to hear the two Canadian rising stars before they embark on a tour of Japan and South Korea.
Ticket information:
http://performance.rcmusic.ca/event/yang_hamelin

More Information:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/article/Tony-Yike-Yang-Charles-Richard-Hamelin-Added-to-Royal-Conservatory-Concert-Season-20151210

Congratulations Emily D’Angelo

Scholarship Winners / November 8, 2015 / COC Ensemble, Emily D'Angelo

Each year young singers from across Canada – preselected in auditions – are invited to compete in the Centre Stage finals for a spot in the COC Ensemble the following season. Mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo, this years’ recipient of the WMCT’s $10,000 Centennial Scholarship, won both First Prize ($5,000) and the Audience Choice award ($1500) in the competition held at the Four Seasons Centre Tuesday, Nov. 3. Despite having to appear on crutches – she has a broken bone in her foot – Emily dazzled us all with her performance.

The second and third prizes went to BC mezzo Lauren Eberwein and Quebec baritone Bruno Ray.

WMCT scholarship winners usually perform at our Annual General Meeting, but Emily was unable to do so this year as she was in New York to perform in the Gerda Lissner Lied/Art Song competition, where she won an “Encouragement” grant, and also to appear in the Mary Trueman Art Song Competition, where she was selected as a finalist – and will return to New York for the final in mid-March. While in New York, she also auditioned, and was accepted, for the Gerdine Young Artists Program offered by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, which provides an opportunity for young singers to sing in the chorus, occasionally understudy and also enjoy extensive coaching and master classes. In addition to all this, Emily has also been awarded the Jim and Charlotte Norcop Prize for singers at the Faculty of Music, and will give a recital in Walter Hall on March 31, 2016, from 12 to 1 pm. A rising star indeed!

More information in the U of T Bulletin

~ Susan Johnston, WMCT Archivist

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