You quickly discover when you interview Branford Marsalis, that he is blunt, opinionated, confident and a joy to engage with on any subject from a barbecue-flavoured potato chip "cut and fried and processed and good as hell" to the importance of listening in all forms
You can take the pianist out of the competitions, but sometimes you can’t take the competitions out of the pianist. Seong-Jin Cho’s international career took off when he won the 2015 Warsaw Chopin Competition (beating Canadian runner-up Charles Richard-Hamelin). The then-21-year-old Korean was quickly signed to
Ēriks Ešenvalds was 11 years old in 1988. The young Latvian was a budding composer at the time when he heard his first true muse. "I was singing at school and playing the piano. That's when I heard Whitney Houston. I just loved her songs. At
Sachin Sinha wants to be an actor. It's been a passion since his high school days at Lisgar Collegiate. But in addition to school musicals and the like, he's been honing his skills in Improv Theatre and it's been a ready training ground. The 21
The first event in the series, Disruptions: Dialogues on Disability Art organized by the Carleton University Art Gallery is called Cripping Aesthetics, Maddening Creation and features a performance by Lindsay Eales and Danielle Peers. Eales is the co-artistic director of CRIPSiE (the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society)
Two and a half years ago, the 23 year old Korean Seong-Jin Cho won the prestigious Chopin competition in Warsaw and launched himself onto the world stage. He was also awarded a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In fact his Chopin winning performance was recorded
I have a dark confession: I’m not a fan of Leonard Cohen’s music. The poetry, sure. But that morose, monotone bass has just never touched me like it has so many others. I’m a terrible Canadian, I know. All of Montreal is probably disowning me
The AOE Arts Council is basking in the glow of a major injection of provincial money that will help them continue an arts initiative in the neighbourhoods of the city. The council received $348,600 from what is known as the Trillium Foundation’s Grow Investment Stream, money
Three years ago Louis Robitaille was on tour in Europe when headquarters called. Headquarters was the office at Ballets Jazz Montréal (BJM) and they wanted to know if Robitaille had an idea for a project to mark Montreal's 375th birthday. "It took me about two seconds," said
Mary-Elizabeth Brown lives many lives — as a wife and mother, as a teacher of music whose students live literally around the world and then as the respected concertmaster of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. Making all that work well is the trick and so far so
