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Trailblazing cellist Matt Haimovitz kicks off his FIGMENT tour this month, visiting more than a dozen US and Canadian cities. The latest evolution of Haimovitz’s signature solo set and the sequel to his trail-blazing 50-State solo cello tour and recording, ANTHEM, released in 2003, FIGMENT salutes contemporary music icon and centenarian Elliott Carter with his two Figments for solo cello, also bringing together a wide range of important new music for cello and electronics by leading and emerging North American composers. On the tour Haimovitz is joined by songstress Du Yun on vocals, laptop and keyboard, improvising segues between composed works to create a seamless musical arc and to perform their original song, Miranda.
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Out of My Hands, a new album from critically acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, features O’Riley’s trademark piano interpretations of contemporary repertoire including Nirvana, REM, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, and Portishead. The songs are based on his own groundbreaking transcriptions, following on the heels of his past readings of the finest in pop repertoire from Radiohead, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. Along with his powerful interpretations of the Classical piano repertoire, these new performances exhibit how O'Riley continues to stretch and redefine the possibilities of Classical music in our time. Christopher O’Riley brings his “Out of My Hands” set list to Montreal’s new eXcentris on October 15.
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Groundbreaking Montreal-based electric guitarist and composer Tim Brady, renowned for his radiant orchestrations and innovations in creating a new voice for the electric guitar, celebrates the 20th Anniversary of his ensemble Bradyworks this season, with a new CD and DVD, a cross-Canada tour of his extraordinary music/video/ theatre work My 20th Century, and a residency at the Winnipeg New Music Festival where three of his large-scale works will be featured, including the world premiere of a work in memory of Les Paul for 20 electric guitars, electric guitar solo and orchestra.
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Inspired by the venerable tradition of the Bach Festivals of Europe, the Montreal Bach Festival, November 24 – December 5, brings together many of the most prestigious classical music artists on the international stage with the best of the classical music scene in Montreal. Featured artists include Kent Nagano and l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Ton Koopman, founder of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Russian pianist Evgeni Koroliov and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (pictured), considered "the best period orchestra in the world" (Early Music America), in their Montreal debut. |
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Paradizo releases A French Collection, a voyage into the extraordinary diversity of French harpsichord music from the Age of the Enlightenment and featuring the exquisite harpsichordist artistry of Skip Sempé. The CD has already featured as a “Choice of the Month” in BBC Music Magazine.
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