Mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo, who won the WMCT Centennial Scholarship last year has earned another top prize. She won The Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions in New York on Sunday along with four other singers, chosen from a group of nine. Emily is completing a degree in vocal performance at U of T.
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The next round of CBC Young Artist broadcasts begins this Sunday, on CBC Radio 2’s In Concert (airs between 11:00 and 3:00.) The path to the WMCT Career Development Award begins here!
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If you enjoy James MacMillan’s Tuireadh, performed on Music in the Afternoon on March 3, consider attending the next Soundstreams concert. On March 8, Scotland’s leading composer conducts a choral concert featuring his own Seven Last Words from the Cross.
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There’s a Master class!
Friday, March 4 from 11am to 1 pm the Daedalus String Quartet holds a master class with U of T students in Walter Hall.
WMCT members/subscribers are invited to attend this complimentary event.
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Emily D’Angelo, winner of the WMCT Centennial Scholarship last year has reached the semi-finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition held in New York March 6.
You can hear Emily in Walter Hall March 31 from 12 to 1 pm. As winner of the University of Toronto Norcop Prize in Song, Emily and Sonya Sim, winner of the Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize in Accompanying, will perform in U of T’s complimentary Thursday Noon Recital Series.
“A sultry concert of French music” reads the billing for a mid-winter concert at Alliance Française with harpist Caroline Léonardelli and mezzo-soprano Julie Nesrallah. Music from the late 19th/20th century features pieces by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Marcel Tournier and Reynaldo Hahn. “Ah! The Symbolists and late Romantics knew how to spin a tune!”
Caroline Léonardelli, along with the Afiara String Quartet, opened this season’s Music in the Afternoon concert season and Julie Nasrallah was MC for the Career Development Award competition last April. They performed this “sultry” concert at Carnegie Hall almost a year ago.
It’s in the Spadina Theatre, 24 Spadina Road, February 27 at 8 pm. Tickets are $15 and $10 for seniors and students.
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Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Earl Lee (conductor), Saturday, Feb. 20.
It was a banquet of blurry fingers at Roy Thomson Hall Saturday night, as pianist Pavel Kolesnikov stopped by to lend his musical finesse to Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”. Despite a wonderful concert, his appearance was brief, and left the audience wondering why he wasn’t performing more than just a 25-minute work. It seemed hardly worth the trip from his home in London, England, but it was.
Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Kolesnikov’s career has been on an astonishing rise after winning Calgary’s 2012 Honens Piano Competition. The Siberian pianist has been slinking around the world, with stops at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Konzerthaus Berlin. The next push came from BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist, which provides young promising artists with performance opportunities and live broadcasts.
Slightly underexposed against TSO’s gang of strings at his back, Kolesnikov’s not so much played Rachmaninoff’s 24 Paganini variations, but rather, painted them. With one of the silkiest runs in the business, his technique was elegant and trim. While skirting concerto territory, its Russian romanticism was strongest at its most hushed moments. Each of the variations was played upside down, sideways and occasionally upright. Kolesnikov’s pedalling was noticeably sparse and tempered with plumes of electric flourishes. Michael Vincent, Toronto Star
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Trio Arkel concert Feb. 19
The concert is called String Tapestry and it weaves the traditional with the new – Beethoven, Gubaidulina, Kodaly – it’s presented by Trio Arkel and guests at Trinity St. Paul’s on Feb. 19 at 7 pm.
Trio Arkel is composed of three women at the top of the Canadian classical music scene: Marie Berard, concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company orchestra, Teng Li, principal violist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Winona Zelenka, assistant-principal cellist with the TSO. For the String Tapestry concert they are joined by guest artists; internationally renowned violinist Scott St. John and violist Sharon Wei, who is viola professor at the University of Western Ontario and member of Ensemble Made in Canada who played Music in the Afternoon last May. As well, Winona Zelenka was one of the judges for the Career Development Award competition last spring.
The group’s standard program features classics from the chamber music repertoire, but they also play new music by living composers and this concert is a fine example. Presented will be a string trio by Sofia Gubaidulina, a modern spiritualist from the Soviet Union; the Trio Serenade for Two Violins and Viola (Opus 12) by Kodaly, and Beethoven’s String Quintet in c major, (Opus 29) “The Storm”.
Tickets are $30 – $15 for students and a 20 minute pre-concert seminar about the repertoire, given by Marie Berard begins at 6:30 pm. Trinity St. Paul’s is 427 Bloor St. West.
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La Scena Musicale presents Singing Valentines 2016.
Trained singers will telephone your amour (friend, husband, wife, parents, sister, brother or children) on February 11 to 14 and serenade a favourite love song in your name. The cost is $30 to $60 and it’s a donation to La Scena Musicale, a non-profit charity whose mission is to promote music and the arts through the power of the written word. It produces the magazine La Scena Musicale and the website.
This year’s Celebrity Singer is renowned baritone GINO QUILICO, available for a donation of $75 to $100. There are only 10 Celebrity Valentines available.
The list of singers include sopranos Chantal Dionne and Janice Goodfellow, mezzo Priscilla-Ann Tremblay, tenors Wah Keung Chan and David Menzies, and baritone Simon Fournier. Available songs include such favourites as My Funny Valentine, Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix, Che gelida manina, O mio babbino caro, Chanson triste, and many others.
To book a song and singer for February 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th, call 514-948-2520, or visit www.lascena.ca for the complete menu of singers, songs and arias, and time availabilities.
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