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Alain Brunet, winner of the tribute award at the 29th edition of the Prix Opus. Photo: Alain Mercier

Report | 29th Prix Opus: Composers Thankful for Performers

By Justin Bernard on 6 April 2026 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Concert Reviews, Quebec Music, This Week in Montreal

Thirty-three winners were presented the fruits of their labour one by one—collecting single or, in some cases, multiple awards—at the 29th edition of Prix Opus held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Bourgie Hall on Feb. 8 Collective and individual accomplishments were celebrated, as respectively evidenced by the performer-of-the-year award going to Quatuor Quasar and Marie Nadeau-Tremblay for her album Obsession. Maxime Goulet won the coveted composer-of-the-year award and used his platform time to acknowledge performers and ensembles who commission works from composers and support their primary mission to create new music. Journalist and media outreach personality Alain Brunet…

The OSM and Rafael Payare unveil their 2025-2026 Season

By Newswire on 10 April 2025 Highlights, Newswire, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Montreal, April 10, 2025 —Today, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal proudly unveils its 2025–2026 season. With sumptuous and varied programming for all tastes and budgets, Rafael Payare embarks on his 4th season as Music Director, the OSM’s 92nd season, where music, emotion, and passion are key. The OSM will be joined by an array of renowned artists from near and far, including many anticipated return performances and a great diversity of repertoires. This will be a season of symphonic masterworks, symphonic happy hours, music and film concerts, over-the-top éclaté concerts, POP concerts, and concerts for young audiences. Our public will…

Rafael Payare dirige l'OSM dans les "Carmina Burana" de Carl Orff. Photo: Antoine Saito.

Opening concert: After the Virée classique, the OSM returns to the choral repertoire

By Justin Bernard on 12 September 2023 Choral, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

On Tuesday, September 12, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) launches its 90th season with two musical masterpieces of the 20th century. Kicking off his 3rd season at the helm of the OSM, Rafael Payare conducts Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The programme highlights the Maison symphonique’s great Pierre-Béique, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The first work on the program features an entire movement for solo organ. OSM organist-in-residence Jean-Willy Kunz brings his virtuosity to the fore on the high notes, while soprano Camilla Tilling, alto Rose Naggar-Tremblay, tenor Ladislav Elgr and bass…

Preview | SMCQ présents : Amitiés et étrangeté

By Viktor Lazarov on 12 September 2023 Contemporary, La Scena Online, Montreal, This Week in Montreal

On September 24, 2023, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) will present the fourth concert in their Hommage 2023-2024 series, dedicated to composer Sandeep Bhagwati. Organized in collaboration with the Vietnamese Cultural Centre of Canada, the multimedia event will involve music, text and images, centered around such themes as proximity, distance, estrangement and familiarity. Titled Amitiés et étrangeté, the program focuses on a single work by Bhagwati, Exercices d’étrangeté 1, inspired by a verse by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Duy, about Vietnamese diasporic communities. The idea of encountering the unknown is embodied by the musical collaboration that will bring…

Émilie Monnet presents Okinum, her signature show

OKINUM: THE DREAM’S PATH

By Nathalie de Han on 1 October 2022 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Indigenous, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Scena Arts, Theatre, This Week in Montreal

Émilie Monnet presents Okinum, her signature show. Credit: Clark FergusonBecause her healing process still resonates within her, Émilie Monnet presents a new incarnation of Okinum, her signature show. Espace Go, Oct. 4-22. Finalist for the Prix Michel-Tremblay (2019), finalist for the Grand prix du livre de Montréal (2021), Okinum is autobiographic: “Okinum is dear to me, it is my first play, the birthing of my voice as a theater artist,” confides Émilie Monnet. Inspired by the recurring dream of a giant beaver, Okinum is an intimate reflection on the notion of inner dams, a tribute to the power of dreams…

Seán Dagher. Photo: Marc-Antoine Jean

Previews (April-May 2022)

By LSM Calendar on 11 April 2022 Chamber Music, Opera, Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Galileo presents two concerts Galileo has been based in Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent, southwest of Montreal, since its establishment in October 2010. Comprising 15 to 35 instrumentalists, this chamber orchestra bills itself as the only Canadian orchestra specializing in historically informed performance of symphonic repertoire from approximately 1730 to 1930. On April 19, at Saint-Michel Catholic Church in Vaudreuil-Dorion, the orchestra presents its first concert under the direction of Daniel Constantineau with a program resolutely turned towards modernity: Beethoven’s Great Fugue, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Webern’s Fünf Sätze (Five Movements) and Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 2. On June 3, at the Nativity Catholic Church…

This week in Montréal (from Novembre 5 to 13)

By O.Delaire on 5 November 2018 This Week in Montreal

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OFQJ The Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Louis Lavigueur, director of the Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Montréal (OSJM), invites Quebec trumpeter Francis Pigeon and French pianist Nathanaël Gouin as soloists in, respectively, Jacques Hétu’s Concerto for Trumpet and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program: Mercure, Elgar and Debussy. Salle Claude-Champagne, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. www.osjm.org Opéra de Montréal: Das Rheingold In the waters of the Rhine, deformed dwarf Alberich steals the gold he needs to forge a ring that will make him ruler of the world if…

Cette semaine à Montréal (du 11 au 19 juin)

By Newswire on 11 June 2018 This Week in Montreal

LA SÉRIE CLASSIQUE DU FMCM 1er au 17 juin Le Festival de musique de chambre de Montréal lance sa série classique le 12 juin avec le remarquable Rolston String Quartet, en compagnie du réputé pianiste André Laplante (20 h). À 17 h, on pourra entendre le Rolston interpréter Different Trains de Steve Reich, avec la projection de la vidéo produite par Beatriz Caravaggio. La semaine intensive se poursuit le 14 avec la première prestation canadienne du Tempest Trio, un tourbillon musical le 15 avec les pianistes Alon Goldstein, David Jalbert, Steven Massicotte et Wonny Song, le 16 avec le New York Philharmonic…

Cette semaine à Montréal (27 – 6 avril)

By Newswire on 26 February 2018 This Week in Montreal

CHAPELLE HISTORIQUE DU BON-PASTEUR The Paramirabo Ensemble features a premiere by James Bunch, Lost and Found by Joshua Fineberg, Spanish Garland by José Evangelista, Music for Body Without Bodies by Nicole Lizée and Alexandra Fol’s Three Devils. Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. www.accesculture.com LES VIOLONS DU ROY Sous la direction de Bernard Labadie, en compagnie de La Chapelle de Québec, les Violons du Roy présentent la Messe en si bémol majeur de Haydn et Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day de Haendel, deux des plus grands chefs-d’œuvre de la musique pour chœur. Solistes : Lydia Teuscher, Allyson McHardy, James Gilchrist et…

Une attention mémorable – A memorable gift

By Viviane Reid on 8 February 2018 Classical Music, Newswire, Romantic, This Week in Montreal, Vocal

Nous sommes de retour cette année avec une nouvelle édition de levée de fonds des Valentins Chantants. Offrez un cadeau original à votre douce moitié par l’entremise d’une chanson d’amour performée au téléphone par un de nos 7 chanteurs participants. Pour le prix d’un bouquet de fleurs, un de nos artistes invités contactera votre proche et lui chantera la chanson sélectionnée au téléphone! Réservez votre Valentin Chantant dès maintenant! Trouvez toutes les informations ici: https://myscena.org/fr/valentins-chantants-2018/ We are back this year with our new edition of the Singing Valentines fundraising. Offer an original gift to your loved one through a love…