William Caplin and Philippe Leroux were inducted as fellows of the Royal Society of Canada on November 26th, 2015. The Royal Society of Canada (RSC): The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada was established under an Act of Parliament in 1883 as Canada’s National Academy, the senior collegium of distinguished scholars, artists and scientists in the country. The primary objective of the Society is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and social sciences.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2015
The winner of the prestigious 2015 Fernand Lindsay Award is recorder player and Schulich graduate Vincent Lauzer, BMus'10, MMus'12. Worth $50,000, this award is a springboard to an international career for this extremely talented young musician. Watch a video of Vincent Lauzer performing here.
The complete press release is found in the sidebar link.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2015
Arthur Kaptainis, music critic at the National Post, attended the McGill Symphony Orchestra's concert on November 17th in Toronto's Koerner Hall. Here is the text in his article that refers to the McGIll Symphony Orchestra. The full review can be found in the sidebar link.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2015
On Sunday, November 22, Zhenni Li, a second year Doctoral piano student of Stéphane Lemelin won the McGill Classical Concerto Competition. She will perform with the McGill Symphony Orchestra on January 22 and 23, 2016 in Redpath Hall.
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Published on: 23 Nov 2015
Professor Leroux was awarded this prize for his work Quid sit musicus ?, recorded by Solistes XXI under the direction of Rachid Safir. The Grand Prix du Disque et du DVD given out by the Académie Charles Cros recognize outstanding achievements in recorded music and musical scholarship. Prizes are awarded in the field of popular song, classical music, jazz, and other categories of recorded music, as well as for outstanding books of musicology.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2015
Prepare to see a lot more of the back of Jordan de Souza's head: the young conductor is tackling some major Toronto assignments this upcoming year. De Souza, who studied music at McGill University, has been on its teaching staff since 2011. He was still a teenager when he was named conductor of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal in 2008.
Read the full article in the sidebar link, from the Toronto Star.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2015
(article from the Ottawa Gazette) During his 55 years, pianist Jean-Michel Pilc has repeatedly embraced change headlong.
In his 20s, the Paris-born Pilc worked as an engineer, although jazz was his after-hours passion. At 27, the self-taught pianist, who says he fell in love with jazz at the age of eight, switched to making music full-time and was playing with France’s finest jazz artists.
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Published on: 10 Nov 2015
(This article, written by Arthur Kaptainis, appeared in the Montreal Gazette on November 5)
The question arises before, and indeed during, any Viennese-themed concert of the type given Sunday afternoon by the OSM: To schlepp or not to schlepp?
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Published on: 9 Nov 2015
McGill vies for Canadian music school supremacy
Thanks to general government and philanthropic support, music education gets priority at Schulich School.
By: William Littler Music Columnist, Published on Sat Nov 07 2015
MONTREAL—Canada’s finest music school?
First a confession. I happen to teach at one of the candidates, the Royal Conservatory of Music, home to Toronto’s beloved Koerner Hall and neighbour to another candidate, the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, home to the country’s pre-eminent music library.
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Published on: 8 Nov 2015
Bruno Roy, a second year Masters student of Ben Heppner, has placed third at the Canadian Opera Company's annual voice competition COC Centre Stage. The competition showcases the next generation of opera stars selected from nationwide auditions for the COC Ensemble Studio—Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals. The competition features the young singers vying for cash prizes ranging in value from $1,500 to $5,000.
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Published on: 4 Nov 2015
Students eating at Columbia University’s John Jay Dining Hall, an airy den reverberating with undergraduate chatter, were in for a surprise last Wednesday. When they walked in for dinner, they found Matt Haimovitz [Associate Professor in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University] — the cellist who helped to start a trend by performing in places like an East Village punk club and a pizzeria in Jackson, Miss. — playing Bach.
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Published on: 29 Oct 2015
Joshua Peters, violin, has been named this year’s winner of the Golden Violin Competition, following an exciting public recital competition held on Sunday October 25th in Tanna Schulich Hall.
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Published on: 26 Oct 2015
Since graduating the Schulich School of Music in 2011, pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin has received a constant stream of accolades. Winner of the Prix d’Europe in 2011, second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition and the third prize at the Seoul International Music Competition in South Korea in 2014, Richard-Hamelin’s latest distinction comes from the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.
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Published on: 23 Oct 2015
As if Montreal were not already punching above its weight when it comes to large-ensemble jazz, John Hollenbeck has moved to town. The renowned U.S. composer, bandleader and drummer/percussionist began teaching at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music last month, although he splits his time between New York, Berlin, where he also teaches, and Montreal. Hollenbeck, 47, is a huge catch for McGill, given his acclaimed work in jazz and new music.
(full article in sidebar)
The Ottawa Citizen
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Published on: 20 Oct 2015
Chelsea Barton, a Schulich School of Music organ student of Professors Hans-Ola Ericsson and Hank Knox, placed third in the final round of the International BACH | LISZT Organ Competition, which is organized by the City and Cathedral of Erfurt in cooperation with the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. Because of the diversity and the importance of historic and modern instruments on which the competitors perform, this current competition is of world-wide importance to organists.
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Published on: 13 Oct 2015
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