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Piano Festival begins Monday

4/23/2021

Founded in 2002, the CMIM (Concours musical international de Montréal) aims to further the development of the world’s most promising young singers, violinists, and pianists, while making classical music more accessible to the greatest possible number of people. The CMIM is held annually and features three disciplines (piano, voice, and violin) in a three-year rotation. This year's event features pianists.

As of Monday, April 26 at 10am ET, the CMIM website (concoursmontreal.ca) will be turned into a concert hall where you can watch the 26 recitals of the semifinal round, free of charge. The 8 recitals of the final round will follow from May 10 to 13.

To make the recitals accessible to the greatest possible number of spectators and thereby increase the competition’s international visibility, the CMIM will also webcast the rounds on social media and various other international platforms.

SEMIFINALS PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

April 26
10am ET    Tamila Salimdjanova (Ouzbékistan | Uzbekistan)
11am ET    Alice Burla (Canada)
12pm ET    Ken Nakasako (Japon | Japan)
2pm ET     Suah Ye (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
3pm ET      Alexey Trushechkin (Russie | Russia)
4pm ET    Dmitry Sin (Russie | Russia)

April 27
10am ET    Dimitri Malignan (France)
11am ET    Stephanie Tang (États-Unis | United States)
12pm ET    Yeontaek Oh (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
2pm ET      Su Yeon Kim (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
3pm ET      Francesco Granata (Italie | Italy)
4pm ET      Joon Yoon (Corée du Sud | South Korea)

April 28
10am ET    Zhu Wang (Chine | China)
11am ET    Ji-Hyang Gwak (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
12pm ET    Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner (États-Unis | United States)
2pm ET     Chaeyoung Park (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
3pm ET     Kevin Ahfat (Canada)
4pm ET     Cristian Sandrin (Roumanie | Romania)

April 29
10am ET    Andrei Iliushkin (Russie | Russia)
11am ET    Yoichiro Chiba (Japon | Japan)
12pm ET    Anna Han (États-Unis | United States)
2pm ET     Jiacheng Xiong (Chine | China)
3pm ET Ying Li (Chine | China)
4pm ET     Krysztof Ksiazek (Pologne | Poland)

April 30
10am ET   Kyoungsun Park (Corée du Sud | South Korea)
11am ET   Marcel Tadokoro (France)

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Juillard offering free performances

4/23/2021

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Juilliard joins Restart Stages at Lincoln Center with Juilliard NOW featuring free music, dance, and drama performances. Restart Stages is a sweeping initiative that creates an outdoor performing arts center to kickstart the return of live performances. In this time of renewal and reopening in New York City, Juilliard NOW presents the next generation of performing artists at Lincoln Center as well as pop-up performances around New York City.

“We greatly look forward to joining Lincoln Center and our colleagues across the campus in this artistic celebration of New York City’s revival,” Juilliard’s president, Damian Woetzel, said. “Our students have demonstrated the resilience that is at the heart of our extraordinary city as they have excitingly transferred their artistry to virtual stages, including in our recent launch of Juilliard LIVE. But nothing compares to the vital importance of performing before live audiences, and we can’t wait for our reconnection in the weeks to come.”

Juilliard NOW—the school’s offerings in Restart Stages and elsewhere—kicks off Wednesday, May 12, at 1pm, with an open house showcasing performances by Juilliard acting students and jazz, chamber, and brass ensembles. A full list of performances appears below. They feature student artists from across all the school’s college divisions—dance, drama, and music—as well as the Preparatory Division, and they take place every Wednesday and Thursday afternoon and some evenings and weekends. Additional pop-up performances will take place in the Alice Tully Hall Lobby, with sound amplified outside for passersby on Broadway. The pop-up concerts will be unannounced.

Information regarding free ticket availability will be found here.

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Houston Symphony reaches out to underserved communities

4/23/2021

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The Houston Symphony and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music have joined forces to create the new pilot program: The Shepherd School–Houston Symphony Brown Foundation Community-Embedded Musician Fellowship. Providing one apprentice the opportunity to develop community engagement skills under the guidance of the Symphony’s Community-Embedded Musicians (CEMs) and Education and Community Engagement staff, the Fellowship goes annually to a Rice Graduate student, who then learns to work with children and other populations from Houston’s underserved communities.

The inaugural CEM Fellow is double bassist Joseph Nuñez. Having studied at the University of North Texas and the Colburn Conservatory before attending the Shepherd School where he studies with former Houston Symphony Principal Bass Timothy Pitts, Nuñez has played with the New World Symphony and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, as well as participating in the Aspen Music Festival.

You can read more about this new initiative here.

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Neave Trio give virtual concert of music by women composers

4/14/2021

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Neave Trio, a Boston-based ensemble, strives to champion new works by living composers and reach wider audiences through innovative concert presentations, regularly collaborating with artists of all mediums.

As such, they will give a virtual concert presented by the Asheville Chamber Music Series in North Carolina, recorded at the Fraser Performance Studio at WGBH Radio. This concert will be available to ticketholders on April 23 and 24 at 7:30pm ET, and April 25 at 3pm ET.

The program includes works by three women composers, highlighting an ongoing theme in Neave’s programming: Her Voice, a collection of works by women composers, spanning the Romantic era through the modern day. For this performance, Neave Trio will play Louise Farrenc’s Trio No.1, Op.33; Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio; and Cécile Chaminade’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11.

More information on how you can see and hear the concert can be found here.

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Dallas Symphony to benefit MET Opera Orchestra musicians

4/12/2021

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In an unusual collabotarion, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is inviting musicians from the MET Opera Orchestra to Dallas to perform with them live.

Musicians of the MET orchestra have been unpaid for almost a year. 40 to 50 of the musicians will be performing along with the Dallas Symphony in two benefit concerts. Proceeds will go both to the MET Orchestra Musicians' Fund, and also to the DFW Musicians Covid-19 Relief Fund.

The event is tbe brainchild of DSO Music Director Fabio Luisi, who for a time was principal conductor of the MET.

They'll be performing Mahler's First Symphony on April 30 and May 1.

You can learn more here.

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Piano Festival begins Monday

Juillard offering free performances

Houston Symphony reaches out to underserved communities

Neave Trio give virtual concert of music by women composers

Dallas Symphony to benefit MET Opera Orchestra musicians

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