Afleveringen
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In our final episode, Jennifer West (artistic director and producer) speaks with Toronto-based violinist Sean Wang. They talk about cultural appropriation and cancel culture in classical music.
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Artistic and Executive Director, Jennifer West speaks with composer T. Patrick Carrabré and his son, Ariel Carrabré, about an upcoming world premiere of Pat's cello sonata that he wrote for his son.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Artistic and Executive Director, Jennifer West, speaks with CC Guitar Duo about their recent BC Tour.
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Executive and Artistic DIrector, Jennifer West, speaks with Toronto-based composer, Ian Cusson. Mr. Cusson is known for his vocal and operatic music. They discuss how to decolonize the practice of classical music in Canada.
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We sat down for a discussion with pianist Tao Lin. As a soloist, Tao Lin has performed with Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Miami Chamber Orchestra, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Knoxville Civic Orchestra amongst others.
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We caught up with tenor Asitha Tennekoon to discuss projects he has coming up and what it was like preparing for a world premiere of music by Ian Cusson with texts by Michael Ondaatje.
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On this episode, guitarist Isabel Leong sits down with saxophonist Allison Au, bassist Jodi Proznick, and drummer Mili Hong to discuss their musical influences, practice routines, and what to expect for their April 1st concert.
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Join us for a conversation with the Vieness Piano Duo
Founded in 2017 at the University of Southern California, Vieness begins the 2022 season at the Carnegie Concert Series (CA), Camerata Musica (WA), Crystal Theatre (MI), DaCamera Society (CA), Irvine Performing Arts Center (CA), Lancaster Performing Arts Center (CA), L'ermitage Foundation (CA), Opera Steamboat Piano Series (CO), Muzewest Concerts (Canada), Ridgecrest Chamber Society (CA), Sarasota Artists Series (FL), Second City Chamber Series (WA), and more.
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We sat down with lutenist Lucas Harris to have a conversation about early music, Italian culture, lute pedagogy, and more. Lucas is the principle lutenist of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, as well as having been on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute, Vancouver Early Music’s Baroque Vocal Programme, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and Amherst Early Music.
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We welcomed baritone Jonathon Adams for a quick chat about early music, John Dowland, and indigeneity and classical music. Jonathon is a Cree-Métis baritone based in Canada and The Netherlands. They have attended The Royal Academy of Music (London), the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and The Victoria Conservatory of Music where they studied with Nancy Argenta.
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We sat down with Music Arts Collective. Music Arts Collective is an online music school founded by an assembly of kindred spirits dedicated to enhancing the well-being of people through engagement in the arts, with music at its heart. Their approach to pedagogy is contemporary and diverse, while remaining rooted in traditions.
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We sat down for a talk with historical piano recording expect Mark Ainley. Since his teens he has been active in the curating of and research of historical piano recordings and has gained an international reputation as an expert in this arena: he has written about several legendary pianists for International Piano magazine, Classical Recordings Quarterly, and International Classical Recordings Collector, as well as CD liner notes for various international labels.
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We sat down for a chat with harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï. He is known for his recordings of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, a work that he has since played over a hundred times throughout the world. He has often performed and recorded the Elizabethan repertoire (Bull, Byrd, Farnaby), as well as Bach and Couperin, and has devoted himself profoundly to the works of Domenico Scarlatti, which he has already recorded numerous times and that he wants to make even more familiar to audiences.
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Join us for a talk with Romantic Lab. Romantic Lab is a project whose main goal is imitation of historical recordings with the intention of getting a better understanding of the Romantic styles of playing as well as acquiring technical skills to produce the expressive devices we hear on these recordings
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We had a discussion with violinist Andrew Wan. As soloist, Wan has appeared in the United States, China, New Zealand, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland and Canada under conductors such as Jean-Claude Casadesus, Maxim Vengerov, Peter Oundjian, Jacques Lacombe, Vasily Petrenko, James DePreist, Marc Piollet and Michael Stern.
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We sat down for a talk with pianist Iain Burnside. Internationally acclaimed as a leading collaborative pianist, (pretty much ideal, BBC Music Magazine) Iain Burnside has worked with many of the world’s great singers. His discography features over fifty CDs, spanning a huge sweep of repertoire including the Gramophone Award-winning NMC Songbook.
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We had a discussion with violinist Jonathan Crow. Jonathan Crow has been Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) since 2011. Jonathan has also performed as a soloist with most major Canadian orchestras, including the Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras; the National Arts Centre and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestras; the Victoria, Nova Scotia, and Kingston Symphonies; and Orchestra London, under the baton of such conductors as Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Andrew Davis, Peter Oundjian, Kent Nagano, Mario Bernardi, João Carlos Martins, and Gustavo Gimeno.
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We sat down for a talk with conductor Paul McCreesh. First established as the Artistic Director of Gabrieli Consort & Players, he now guest-conducts some of the world’s finest orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bergen Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and Dallas Symphony. He is a former Principal Conductor and Artistic Director at the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon, and served for six seasons as Artistic Director of the Wratislavia Cantans festival in Wrocław, Poland.
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Join us for a discussion with pianist Robert Levin. Pianist and Conductor Robert Levin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah and Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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We sat down for a chat with composer Andrew Balfour. Balfour is an innovative composer/conductor/singer/sound designer with a large body of choral, instrumental, electro-acoustic and orchestral works, including Take the Indian (a vocal reflection on missing children), Empire Étrange: The Death of Louis Riel, Bawajigaywin (Vision Quest) and Manitou Sky, an orchestral tone poem.
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