Arts & Culture

Since first performing in the city as a 16-year-old, Dutch recorder player Lucie Horsch has gone on to become one of the most celebrated virtuosi on her instrument. Now, six years later, the sparkling and stylish player returns to town, once again performing alongside Anne Manson and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. 

Though one would be hard-pressed not to be wowed by Horsch’s playing, it is the instrument itself that comes with a bit of emotional baggage.

“I think there’s positive sides and negative sides to this image of the recorder,” says Horsch. 

From rarely programmed pieces to celebrated masterworks, the 2022 Agassiz Festival’s theme is “Where Worlds Converge” and the featured guest performers this year are no strangers to genre and century hopping. 

Borrowing virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim’s life motto as its title, the second evening concert at the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival features all three of Brahms’ violin sonatas — music written with his close friend and near lifelong collaborator in mind. 

Named for the vast and ancient glacial lake that used to cover most of this part of the continent, the Agassiz Festival returns to bathe concertgoers in a weeklong celebration of chamber music from Sunday through next Saturday. 

It’s the last month of the school year, summer is just around the corner and with it, hopefully will come some long, warm and dry summer days and nights. 

On the first Friday of the month, Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers returned to the airwaves in the longstanding segment called "What to Read."

Winnipeg’s Pride Week is in full swing here in town and on Saturday, June 4, it will be in full sing with Rainbow Harmony Project (RHP). 

Singing out since 1999, the choir for the LGBTQ2* community and their allies present their first spring concert in three years. 

“There’s a feeling of hope,” says RHP board president Karyn Kumhyr, who also sings in the tenor section of the choir.  

After a season of smaller concerts and musical outreach, to be a part of the more than 45 community events associated with Pride is an exciting opportunity, she says. 

In a program ranging from the 18th century through to the present day, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra welcomes back renowned French hornist James Somerville to play-conduct in their second-to-last Spring Series concert. 

Tonight May 31st and tomorrow June 1st   at Westminster United Church at 7:30 pm, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra welcomes back to Winnipeg the marvelous Canadian horn player James Sommerville. Currently serving as the principal horn with the Boston symphony Orchestra, Sommerville has also established himself as one of the pre-eminent horn players in the world.

After a two-year hiatus, the International Music Camp (IMC) returns with a full summer of arts programming including week-long band, choir and orchestra creative intensives. 

An exhibit is set up at the Mennonite Heritage Centre (MHC) Gallery and the artwork reflects how the artist views himself after immigrating to Canada.

On May 6, artist, Milos Milidrag, presented the public with a collection of his artwork titled, Who am I? A Retrospective.

Before moving to Canada in 1997, Milidrag was a professor of fresco and mosaic at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Pristina (now the Republic of Kosovo).