Dossiers Classical

Quebec’s classical music community is responding with strength and determination to the crisis in the performing arts: Québec Baroque, a new online concert distribution platform is born!

The Orchestre métropolitain’s first composition competition is devoted to four creators, yours to discover at PAN M 360. Today, we talk to Nicholas Ryan.

The Orchestre Métropolitain’s first composition competition is devoted to four creators, yours to discover at PAN M 360. Today, we talk to Francis Battah.

The Orchestre métropolitain’s first composition competition is devoted to four creators, yours to discover at PAN M 360. Today, we talk to Cristina García Islas.

The Orchestre métropolitain’s first composition competition spotlights four creators – here’s your chance to discover them, at PAN M 360.

German’s Markus Reuter is an extremely prolific musician for whom quantity doesn’t preclude quality. Three albums at once? Calls for a dossier!

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Eighth subject in our series: the world premiere of the complete melodies of Jules Massenet, an ambitious project by the Festival Classica team.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Seventh subject in our series: the Concert Bleu initiative.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Sixth subject in our series: Alain Trudel, conductor and artistic director of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Laval.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Fifth subject in our series: Véronique Lacroix, artistic director of l’Ensemble contemporain de Montréal.

Profoundly innovative and enormously influential, Italian composer Ennio Morricone is simply the most important name in music for motion pictures – a name now uttered most disconsolately, following the Maestro’s passing on July 6, 2020, at the age of 91. He left us with hundreds of film scores to his credit, spanning all genres (and production budgets!) and marked by many musical moments that have haunted the memories of generations of film and music lovers.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Fourth topic in our series: Julien Proulx, artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Third topic in our series: Walter Boudreau, conductor and artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. Second topic in our series: Jean-Philippe Tremblay, founder of L’Orchestre de la francophonie.

Cancellation, postponement, de-quarantining, a possible second wave… What will autumn look like? How to reconcile concerts and social distancing? In our new dossier series, we’ve asked the artistic directors of Quebec classical ensembles and orchestras a few questions, to get a sense of what’s in the works. First topic in our series: Normand Forget, artistic director of Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.

Exactly 20 years ago, an unprecedented orchestral display of contemporary music, since unequalled, took place at the foot of St. Joseph’s Oratory: La Symphonie du millénaire. Walter Boudreau, Artistic Director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) had imagined this collective work being performed in front of 50,000 spectators, a sort of mini-Woodstock of contemporary music.

Composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, certainly one of the most prominent musicians of the last six decades, died recently of “a long illness” that apparently had nothing to do with COVID-19.