Ottawa's Chamberfest embraces all kinds of music played on stringed instruments and that includes the kind of traditional Celtic tunes that are delivered by the four members of The Fretless. That fact that he's playing his fiddle (and viola) in the world's largest chamber music festival
Kim Kilpatrick could hear passersby chuckling as she walked home from the pet store, having just bought some food and other necessities for her new guide dog, a black Labrador named Gwenny. Unbeknownst to the blind Kilpatrick, Gwenny had carried home, in her mouth, a dog
Marina Kun has always been interested in music. "I don't know the reason, because it's not in my background. When I was young and going to elementary school they did give music appreciation." Perhaps, she said, that is what captured her. But whatever the reason, by age
Matt Herskowitz has met his musical match and his name is George Gershwin. The iconic American composer of popular songs and classic orchestrations is the focus of a concert featuring Herskowitz at this summer's Chamberfest on July 28. He plays piano with the rising Quebec-based brass ensemble
The 20th century is full of composers most people have never heard of. Their music lies hidden away, seldom played and basically unremembered. Consider Samuil Feinberg. He is best remembered today as one of the great teachers in the Moscow Conservatory in the early years
Jamie Parker is a celebrated pianist, a professor, a major Vancouver Canucks fan, a husband and a dad. He's also the younger brother of Jon Kimura Parker and for 25 years he's been a member of the Gryphon Trio which he describes as "two really patient
No matter where the Romani people have travelled in this world they have always carried their music on the journey. And it is that music that Roby Lakatos has made his own. The Hungarian violinist has been a major exponent of this form since he was
Could a sex strike and an ancient Greek play halt the impending ravages of climate change? Toronto-based playwright David S. Craig figured there was an outside chance of exactly that, so he wrote Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia. Inspired by Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Craig’s new play
Every year the Canadian War Museum presents the winning images from the annual World Press Photo contest. The 2018 exhibition, which runs until Aug. 12, includes more than 160 large-format images that capturing events around the world. “World Press Photo – Exhibition 2018 is a dramatic overview of
The world's largest chamber music festival is celebrating 25 years of great music with another eclectic and ambitious program of about 100 concerts featuring artists from around the world and right here at home. The fun all begins on July 26. Every year it's a challenge
