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TMS3-4cover.5 2005-06-07 11:10 Page 1 CANADIAN GUIDE TO SIZZLING SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS ISSUE 09 www.scena.org Summer 2005 • Vol. 3.4 $4.95 National Youth Orchestra at 45 National Academy Orchestra Cross-Country Jazz Roundup Vancouver Jazz Festival at 20! Jazz Contest Inside Measha Brueggergosman A Graced Voice 0 4 0 0 6 5 3 8 5 0 4 6 4 4 9 TMS3-4 glossy 2005-06-06 09:14 Page 2 QUEEN ELISABETH COMPETITION 5 00 2 N I L O I V S. KHACHATRYAN with G. VARGA and the Belgian National Orchestra © Bruno Vessié 1st Prize Sergey KHACHATRYAN 2nd Prize Yossif IVANOV 3rd Prize Sophia JAFFÉ 4th Prize Saeka MATSUYAMA 5th Prize Mikhail OVRUTSKY 6th Prize Hyuk Joo KWUN Non-ranked laureates Alena BAEVA Andreas JANKE Keisuke OKAZAKI Antal SZALAI Kyoko YONEMOTO Dan ZHU Grand Prize of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition for Composers 2004: Javier TORRES MALDONADO Finalists Composition 2004: Kee-Yong CHONG, Paolo MARCHETTINI, Alexander MUNO & Myung-hoon PAK Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Belgian Composers 2004: Hans SLUIJS WWW.QEIMC.BE QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION OF BELGIUM INFO: RUE AUX LAINES 20, B-1000 BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) TEL : +32 2 213 40 50 - FAX : +32 2 514 32 97 - [email protected] SRI_MusicScene 2005-06-06 10:20 Page 3 NEW RELEASES from the WORLD’S BEST LABELS Mahler Symphony No.9, Bach Cantatas for the feast San Francisco Symphony of St. John the Baptist Mendelssohn String Quartets, Orchestra, the Eroica Quartet Michael Tilson Thomas une 2005 marks the beginning of ATMA’s conducting. Jambitious, multi-year project to record and release all 200 of Bach‚s sacred cantatas. The eading the revival of Romantic period- first disc features the cantatas for the feast of Lperformance style, The Eroica Quartet his month, music director Michael Tilson St. John the Baptist (BWV 7-30-167), with presents the third and final installment of its TThomas and the San Francisco Symphony singers Suzie LeBlanc, Daniel Taylor, Charles highly acclaimed Mendelssohn cycle. offer their sublime reading of the powerful Daniels, Stephan Macleod, and The Montréal ninth symphony—the sixth installment in the Baroque ensemble conducted by Eric Milnes. Grammy Award-winning Mahler symphony ATMA’s Bach cycle incorporates the most recent recording cycle. Michael Tilson Thomas has research on performance practise, confirming distinguished himself as one of the world’s that these cantatas were performed one singer 907288 foremost Mahler interpreters, and through his to a part, including the choruses. ATMA’s Bach signature performances, as one of the composer’s cycle marks the first complete recording of the most compelling advocates. Bach cantatas performed one-on-a-part, and is also the first to be released in hybrid SACD surround format. This project is created in col- laboration with the Montréal Baroque Festival, held each year in the city’s historic district. ATMA SFS SFS60007 classique SACD22400 Angela Hewitt: Bach Keyboard Concerti anadian, Angela Hewitt’s Bach is by now self-recommending but only after playing Bach Cacross the world with numerous ensembles did Angela decide that the Australian Chamber Orchestra were the perfect collaborators. After a month of concerts across Australia these recordings were set down in Sydney in February of this year and the frisson of artists operating at the peak of their form is clear for all to hear. One is immediately struck by the quality of chamber-music playing as phrases are passed from soloist to orchestra and, in the case of Brandenburg Concerto No.5 and the Triple Concerto, between all three soloists. Rhythms are buoyant, tempos lively, the spirit of the dance is never far away in the fast movements and a perfectly vocal quality pervades the sung lines of the slow movements. SACDA67307 & SACDA67308 FOR STORE LOCATIONS PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] TMS3-4 glossy2 2005-06-07 14:42 Page 4 Tour & Audition Sponsor Enter to win 2 Tickets & Hotel Accommodations! Visit www.nyoc.org for contest details. 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Visit ads.scena.org for details. The Music Scene The Music 6 Summer 2005 TMS3-4 WKC3 6/6/05 4:21 AM Page 7 th Editorial cene iving birth to each issue of The Music Scene is always a labor of love for La Scena but each year, the June issue stirs up more excitement and anticipation than usual Summer 2005 Vol. 3.4 Gwithin the La Scena team perhaps because it is the issue that unveils the summer program of festivals and concerts from which many music-lovers plan part of their summer Publisher La Scène Musicale / The Music Scene agenda. This year, we again experienced that wonderful flurry of activity as we scoped out Directors Wah Keung Chan (pres.), Sandro Scola, Dean what’s up-and-coming for the summer months (June 1 - September 7) so as to tempt each Jobin-Bevans, Joan Gauthier of you to partake in at least one musical event. Editor Wah Keung Chan Assistant Editor Réjean Beaucage CD/Books Editor Réjean Beaucage Our latest Summer Festival Issue offers a convenient calendar of more than 100 music fes- Jazz Editor Marc Chénard tivals arranged by region across the country, and according to either classical or jazz gen- Contributors Christopher Bourne, Marc Chénard, Charles res. To be as inclusive as possible, this issue also highlights kid-friendly events, offers vari- Collard, John Defayette, Danielle Dubois, W.S. Habington, Kat Hammer, Isabelle Picard, Paul Serralheiro, Bill Shoemaker, Joseph ous ideas for music-loving tourists, and shares the summer festival experience in Europe K. So from several perspectives (Danielle Dubois’ “Summer Festivals in Europe,” and “In Boulez’s Cover Photo Lorne Bridgeman Tracks”). Each event has its own unique appeal in terms of timing, venue and music offering. Translators Christopher Bourne, Christiane Charbonneau, Danielle Dubois In fact, the article, “Festivalmania,” illustrates to what extent festival “groupies” will go to try Proofreaders Christopher Bourne, Lilian Liganor and cram as many concerts as possible within a brief period of time.