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Latitude45NEWS - May 2009
May 10, 2009, 12:00 am Dear Friends and Music Lovers, NewsScotia Festival This year the Scotia Festival of Music enters its 30th season, and like the years before it offers over fifty public events, featuring international talent of the highest calibre. You will meet several Latitude45 artists among them: Alain Trudel conducts several orchestra concerts, including Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in the final gala; and violinist Mark Fewer will appear both with his SuperNova String Quartet and as a soloist. His performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra, together with John Novacek on the piano and Alain Trudel conducting, will surely be one of the festival’s highlights. www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=83 www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=13 www.scotiafestival.ns.ca Mexico Concerts Cancelled Due to the outbreak of swine influenza in Mexico, the Ollin Kan festival in Mexico City had to be cancelled, and with it the scheduled performances of Kleztory. We all know how important culture is to people in hard times, and we feel how hard this decision must have been to those responsible. Our sympathy is with them and with our colleagues in Mexico, who face such difficult circumstances, as well as with all others around the world affected. www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=85 www.ollinkan.tlalpan.gob.mx Sanctuary in Shanghai Organist Peter Togni, bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly, and cellist Christoph Both, together known as Sanctuary Trio, prepare to leave for Shanghai to perform at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center Concert Hall. In this prestigious Asian hall with the biggest pipe organ in China, Sanctuary trio will bring its avant-garde contemplative music to an audience of 2000. The concert has been sold out for months. www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=26 www.sanctuarymusic.ca Kudos to Jenny Lin Classics Today, the major CD review magazine online, praises Jenny Lin’s recent recording of Shostakovich’s preludes and fugues as “the finest version of this massive work yet recorded”. Reviewer David Hurwitz puts her above Tatiana Nikolayeva, Konstantin Scherbakov, and even Vladimir Ashkenazy, wowed by her “brilliant, moody, energetic, edgy, and technically stunning exploration of Shostakovich's compositional genius.” www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=82 classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=12199 Vladimir Mischouk records Chopin Russian pianist and Chopin specialist Vladimir Mischouk is preparing to record all Chopin works for piano and orchestra during summer and fall 2009. His orchestral partner is the St. Petersburg Capella Symphony under the direction of Conrad van Alphen. The CD is to be released in spring 2010 with the Belgian label Talent records. www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=64 Adieu, Brian; Welcome, Mark and Krista! For several years, Brian Harman has been an agent with Latitude45, bringing our fresh sound of virtuosity to Canada’s stages. He now retreats to fully concentrate on his university studies and finish his doctorate in composition. We want to thank Brian for his great work and his passion, and wish him every success in his future endeavours! Brian’s duties will be taken over by Mark Bradley, who will not only serve the Canadian market, but also tighten our network in the New York area. Another new face in the Latitude45 team is Krista Martynes. Krista is fluent in English and French and will intensify our presence in francophone countries as well as assisting with orchestra contacts in the US. Artist of the MonthAlain Trudel: A Man of Multiple Careers Some people dream of only one career, others are successful with several. Alain Trudel is one of the latter. Already having become famous as a trombonist, five years ago he changed roles and started conducting. Today, he is music director and principal conductor of three prestigious Canadian orchestras – the National Broadcasting Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, and the Toronto Symphony Youth orchestra – as well as principal guest conductor of the Victoria Symphony. He also is a regular guest with orchestras across Canada and increasingly around the world. But Alain Trudel not only has a second, but even a third career. His own compositions gain high praise and are performed regularly in Canada and abroad. He just returned from a tour to Albania, where he conducted the Radio Television Symphony Orchestra of Albania in a program of Grieg and his own “Rhea”, an orchestra piece dedicated to the ancient Greek goddess mother and to the love of arts. “Charlotte and the Music Maker”, an orchestra work for young audiences developed in collaboration with Platypus Theatre, has been performed with ten North American orchestras, and next season will travel as far as Kuala-Lumpur. The next weeks will see Alain Trudel conducting the final round and the gala concert of the Montreal International Music Competition for Voice, and participating in Halifax’s Scotia Festival; during summer, he will tour the National Youth Orchestra across Canada. He will again turn to working with voices in November, when conducting the Magic Flute with the Opéra de Montréal. His plans for the future? To conduct, to compose, and to grow further. No doubt he will! www.latitude45arts.com/en/artist.php?artist_id=13 www.alaintrudel.com |
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