Local organization raising money to empower women and gender minority artists

Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) is hosting its 19th annual Over the Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party fundraiser to continue supporting people in the community.

Founded in 1984, MAWA is a visual arts education centre that provides services to women and gender minority artists in working towards gender inequality in society and the visual arts community. They provide a wide range of programs such as mentorships, workshops and discussion groups.

Beauty and Gushing Warmth: Winnipeg Chamber Music Society perform music of Brahms and Dvorak this Sunday night

This Sunday, March 26th at 7:30pm at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society (WCMS) will be presenting their fourth concert of the 2022-2023 Season.

This concert will feature Miklós Rózsa’s Sonata for two violins, Dvorak’s Op.87 Piano Quartet and Brahms’s passionate and lyrical 2nd Cello Sonata in F.

Welcome the new season – and new music – with the MCO

Though it might not feel like it in Winnipeg, spring is just round the corner with the sun poised to cross the celestial equator and return to the northern hemisphere at 4:24 p.m. on Monday, March 20.  

Just two days later, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra celebrates all things budding and new in Equinox – a concert featuring 7 composers (and no less than 4 world premieres!) – at WAG Qaumajuq. 

 

Soloist and solo recital: pianist Alexei Volodin returns for a whirlwind weekend of music-making

Get ready to Rach, Winnipeg.  

This weekend, virtuoso pianist Alexei Volodin makes his return to Winnipeg for back-to-back nights of Rachmaninoff with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and a solo afternoon recital, presented by the Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg.  

 

The Power of Conversation: Mennonite Community Orchestra performs this Sunday

This Sunday, March 13th at 3:00pm at the Lutheran Church of the Cross the Mennonite Community Orchestra will be performing a concert that they are calling “The Power of Conversation.”

Featuring the music of Liszt, Schumann, and a Winnipeg premiere of a terrific Symphony by the Danish composer Niels Gade, this concert will feature pianist Anna Schwartz in a performance of the first movement to Schumann’s A Minor piano concerto.

Wild Wild Wilderness: teaching future generations of environmental importance through song

Emily Thoroski grew up loving music but also has a passion for nature and the environment, so she thought why not do both?

With a dream to tour around Canada offering performances on the importance of knowing current environmental issues, someone needs to have credentials to help them out. Emily Thoroski completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science at the University of Manitoba, as well as a Masters degree afterwards.

A different history: Andrew Balfour’s ‘NAGAMO’ presented by musica intima

Renowned for their outstanding musicianship and committed performances, Vancouver’s musica intima is currently on a cross-country presentation of Nagamo – 'sings’ in Cree. A musical reimagining of history in which the Ojibway language is set to music of Thomas Tallis, and Henry Purcell is presented in Cree. 

One of composer Andrew Balfour’s latest projects, Nagamo features his hallmark multi-genre, multi-lens perspective as the music of English Elizabethan masters meets the language and teachings of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island.