Our celebrated 2015 Career Development Award winner will appear in Peter Oundjian’s final Mozart Festival, on January 19, 2018, to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K.488, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Details and ticket information on the TSO website.
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Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin has been invested into the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (OALQ). Charles won the WMCT’s Career Development Award competition in 2015 and played the final concert in Music in the Afternoon’s 119th season on May 4. It’s an incredible honour and achievement for Charles who is one of 16 people invested in the recent ceremony.
Congratulations from all your friends and supporters at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
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Charles Richard-Hamelin plays Music in the Afternoon May 4 in his first solo Toronto recital. “I’m looking forward to my proper Toronto recital debut,” he said in a recent note to past president and Career Development Award chair Annette Sanger.
Annette presented Charles with first prize in April 2015 when he won the Career Development Award 10th Anniversary competition in Walter Hall.
That same year he went on to win silver in the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the Krystian Zimerman award for the best sonata at the competition.
Listen to Charles at the Chopin competition
17TH INTERNATIONAL FRYDERYK CHOPIN PIANO COMPETITION 21 October 2015, Warsaw…
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Canadian composer John Beckwith delivers the Tuning Your Mind lecture on May 4 before the Charles Richard-Hamelin Concert.
The lecture in Walter Hall starts at 12:15 pm.
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The April issue of Wholenote Magazine features Music in the Afternoon upcoming programming on p. 20. Pick up a copy at your local music venue, or read it online.
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Three recent WMCT award winners received “spectacular” praise following performances in Generation Next concert at Koerner Hall Thursday Nov. 10.
Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, winner of the $20,000 Career Development Award in May 2015; cellist Stéphane Tétreault, second prize winner of $10,000 in the same competition and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo who won the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship in 2015-16 are praised as “exceptional young Canadians on the verge of major international careers” by Joseph So in Musical Toronto.
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WMCT award winners in Generation Next concert
Three young artists – all WMCT award winners in 2015 – will perform in Generation Next a special concert part of the International Association of Arts Managers Conference to be held in Toronto in November. Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin won the WMCT’s $20,000 Career Development Award competition in April 2015 and cellist Stéphane Tétreault won the $10,000 silver prize. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo was awarded the $10,000 WMCT Centennial Scholarship.
The three are among five talented young Canadian musicians who will perform in Generation Next on Novemeber 10, 2016. The Royal Conservatory hosts the conference’s opening day and will present the Koerner Hall concert in the evening.
Charles Richard-Hamelin last year continued his success winning the silver medal and the Krystian Zimerman prize at the 17th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was the first time any Canadian had made it to the finals. Also in the Generation Next concert is Torontonian pianist Tony Yike Yang, who at 16 became the youngest prize winner in the history of the Chopin competition with his fifth-place finish. Pianist Alexander Seredenko recipient of the prestigious Ihnatowycz Piano Prize at The Royal Conservatory completes the list of young talent in the Generation Next concert.
Charles Richard-Hamelin‘s Career Development Award prize includes a concert in the Music in the Afternoon series and he will perform in Walter Hall on May 4, 2017.
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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
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The Wholenote Magazine managing editor Paul Ennis notes in the current issue that the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto was “justly proud” when Charles Richard-Hamelin won silver in the prestigious 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw last week. And even more than overly proud that the piano sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. performance that won him the Krystian Zimerman Prize for best performance of a sonata is the very sonata that won him first prize in the WMCT’s Career Development Award competition last April.
Puffed our chests for sure.
But there is another connection as Wholenote editor David Perlman notes on page 6. Sixteen-year-old Toronto high school student, Yike (Tony) Yang who placed fifth in the Chopin competition is taught by Dang Thai Son. Dang graced the cover of the Wholenote in February 2000 in the context of what he called “my real Toronto debut” – at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto – 20 years after he “burst seemingly out of nowhere, onto the world stage in 1980, and won first prize at the 10th Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw”.
While checking theWholenote notice page 26 where Isabel Leonard’s Nov. 19 concert is recommended. “The Women’s Musical Club of Toronto can always be relied on to provide artists and programs of interest. I’m looking very much forward to the recital by the American mezzo …..” Hans de Groot.
Charles Richard-Hamelin, first prize winner in the WMCT’s Career Development Award competition last April, has won Silver in the 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. In addition he won the Krystian Zimerman Prize for best performance of a sonata – Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. – the same sonata that won him first prize in the CDA competition.
The CDA competition prize includes a concert in Music in the Afternoon. Charles will play in the spring of 2017.
Seong-Jin Cho, of South Korea was the Chopin competition first place winner.
No Canadian has ever reached the final stage of the competition and this year there were two. Toronto-based pianist Tony Yike Yang took fifth prize.
Of Charles’ CDA performance, one juror remarked:
“…one of the finest performances of this work I have ever heard on any professional stage”.
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Charles Richard-Hamelin, winner of the WMCT’s Career Development Award competition last April, is one of two Canadians – along with Yike (Tony) Yang – advancing to the final stage of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In all 10 pianists have been chosen for the final stage.
No Canadian has ever reached the final stage of the International competition. Now there are two.
See CBC story and videos here:
Chopin Competition website here:
“He simply has no weaknesses” see comments here:
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