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30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30, 2019 Edition CBC Music 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30, 2019 edition Meet the next generation of classical music stars Robert Rowat · CBC Music · Posted: Aug 07, 2019 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: August 7 They're winning big competitions and prizes, making exciting debuts, graduating from top music schools — and we think they're amazing. (Photos by John Paik, Mike Capson, Simeon Rusnak) It's a beloved summer tradition at CBC Music: our classical "30 under 30" list, celebrating the accomplishments of Canada's hottest young classical musicians. Last year, Canadians cleaned up at some of the world's biggest international classical music competitions. This year's inductees into CBC Music's classical "30 under 30" community are continuing that winning trend. Without exception, all of them told us that they wouldn't be where they are today without the unconditional support of their parents. So, this year we dedicate our classical "30 under 30" list to these unsung heroes who invest time and money to help their children be their best selves and reach their goals. Take a bow, moms and dads! And now, meet this year's 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30, from oldest to youngest. Is there a young classical musician who has grabbed your attention? Let us know via Twitter @CBCclassical. Jillian Bonner, mezzo-soprano Age: 29 From: Saint John In 2005, at the historic Imperial Theatre in Saint John, Jillian Bonner sang in the chorus of Puccini's Tosca and her fate was sealed. Fourteen years and a lot of hard work later, she's basking in the afterglow of singing her first Charlotte in Massenet's Werther at the Lunenburg Academy of Music last May. "I have to actively convince myself to practise other music, instead of just constantly working on Werther!" But other work does beckon: Bonner is heading to Toronto this fall to begin a Rebanks Family Fellowship at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and she'll make her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in January 2020 as a soloist in Mozart's Requiem, the latter resulting from a collaboration between the TSO and Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium Young Artists initiative. If Bonner gets homesick for the lush greenery and ocean breezes of her native New Brunswick, she'll distract herself with — this is weird — a mix of horror and Disney movies. And when she's not belting out show tunes from Sondheim musicals ("he writes such beautiful, poignant lyrics"), she's busy advocating for social justice, "especially pertaining to feminism and the LGBTQIA+ community." We raise a pint of Moosehead (Bonner's favourite) in her honour. 'Get back on that horse.' — Jillian Bonner (Mike Capson) Naomi Woo, conductor Age: 29 From: North Vancouver Hey, Winnipeg: get ready to welcome Naomi Woo to your fair city. She's moving there in September to become assistant conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conductor of the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of Winnipeg Sistema. "I look forward to getting to know many sides of this vibrant city," she says. "I'm especially thrilled to be able to work with the musicians in the WSO — it is such a warm community, and an absolutely stellar orchestra." Woo will be arriving from Cambridge, England, where she recently submitted her PhD thesis on 20th- and 21st-century piano études, including a full chapter on Nicole Lizée's Hitchcock Études. "I really love the way she works with sound, and also how blurred the boundaries are between the live and electronic components of the music." Despite her busy schedule in Winnipeg, Woo will return to England in September to perform piano with Tangram, a collective dedicated to the new music of the Chinese diaspora, at the Rye Arts Festival. She loves Blossom Dearie ("her voice is just amazing"), greatly admires Marin Alsop, and says nothing beats "working at the piano while a deer casually strolls up to the window to peer through" at the Banff Centre for the Arts. 'I think of myself as much a curator as a musician.' — Naomi Woo (Irene Trancossi) Stephen Ivany, trombonist Age: 29 From: Shoal Harbour, N.L. "Other than sharks, bugs, heights and open water, I think my biggest fear is not being heard," says Stephen Ivany, adding, "you can read into my choice of trombone all you want." Evidently you can take the boy out of Newfoundland (all the way to Greenville, N.C., in fact, where Ivany is assistant professor of trombone and euphonium at East Carolina University) but you can't take that Newfoundland sense of humour out of the boy. Jokes aside, Ivany has had a busy year: he played second trombone in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 with the North Carolina Symphony under Karina Canellakis in January, did a recital tour of the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and saw two of his graduating students get accepted into master's programs. Despite his many accomplishments, Ivany says he's constantly "in pursuit of total mastery" of his instrument and still regularly consults Scott Hartman, his former trombone teacher at Yale, for guidance. This fall, fuelled by a steady diet of pink Starburst, he'll tour Ecuador and Colombia with the Carnyx Trio, and in 2020, he'll release Monuments, an album featuring six new chamber works. 'Consistent work equals consistent results in all aspects of one’s life.' — Stephen Ivany (Greg Locke) Bryn Blackwood, pianist Age: 28 From: Toronto The first thing to know about Bryn Blackwood is that, on his mother's side of the family, he's related to famed composer (and Alberti bass abuser) Muzio Clementi. If that name gives you piano-lesson PTSD, don't blame Blackwood: he has made up for it by winning first prize at both the 2019 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition and the doctor of musical arts recital competition at U of T, where he studies with Marietta Orlov as a recipient of the Alice and Armen Matheson Graduate Scholarship. While Blackwood says Jacob Collier's album Djesse reinvigorated his love of harmony, these days he's most likely to be diving deeply into the modernist works of Russian composer Nikolai Roslavets. "His music has such an expressively dark harmonic sense." An amateur baker, Blackwood unwinds either in the kitchen ("one day I will perfect macarons!") or the campgrounds of Ontario. (Fun fact: he was a zipline/canopy tour guide for a number of years.) This fall, you can catch him playing music by Jean Coulthard, Jacques Hétu and Brian Current on his cross-Canada Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition winner's concert tour. We invited Blackwood to Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto and he cast a spell with this Scriabin Prelude: Bryn Blackwood performs Alexander Scriabin's Prelude in B Flat Major, Op. 11, No. 21 1:57 Ariane Brisson, flutist Age: 28 From: Montreal In June, Ariane Brisson became the new artistic director of Pentaèdre, the renowned wind quintet of which she's been a member since 2016. Earlier this year, they went to London, England, to perform Schubert's Die Winterreise (arranged for voice, winds and accordion) with Christoph Prégardien and Joseph Petrič at Wigmore Hall. "Without a doubt, the musical highlight of my year," Brisson enthuses. (Watch here and be amazed.) In the upcoming season, while continuing her doctoral studies at l'Université de Montréal thanks to a generous SSHRC grant, she and her Pentaèdre colleagues will present an all- Jacques Hétu concert on Nov. 8 ("simply magnificent music!"), and in May 2020 she'll join some friends from Les Violons du Roy to play the complete flute quartets by Mozart. An ongoing obsession for Brisson is the music of Ravel ("I've always been sensitive to his musical language") and she's busy transcribing his pieces for her instrument. And yet, she insists she is not a flute geek! This summer, you're likely to find her hanging out — literally, in the hammock she takes everywhere — near a lake, and knitting with a gin and tonic/mojito/Pilsner within reach. 'Vivre et laisser vivre (live and let live).' — Ariane Brisson (Annie Éthier) Sarah Bissonnette, mezzo-soprano Age: 27 From: Boucherville, Que. It's been a terrific year for Sarah Bissonnette. She won first prize and the audience prize at Vancouver Opera's inaugural VOX competition — "It was a pleasure to sing on the stage of Queen Elizabeth Theatre and to feel so welcomed for my first day in B.C." — and completed her tenureship at Calgary Opera's Emerging Artists program, which saw her perform in the "quite effervescent" world premiere of Veronika Krausas and André Alexis's Ghost Opera at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Earlier in the year, she was on the East Coast to work on the title role in Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri at the Lunenberg Academy of Music. Now, you might be inclined to put your feet up after all that, but not Bissonnette. She's making the most of her summer, studying art song and opera at Edith Wiens' Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Germany. She loves being onstage and hopes to improve her hair and makeup skills ("I have never learned how to contour," she admits.) Occasionally Bissonnette despairs at the wage gap and double standards in the music business. "There is still so much work to do, especially in opera, to give equal opportunity to female voices," she says, adding, "New works should really pass the Bechdel test." Best thing about being a musician? 'Bringing together mind, body and soul,' says Sarah Bissonnette. (Steffanie Sedlbauer) Sharanjeet Singh Mand, sitarist Age: 26 From: Surrey, B.C.
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