Arts & Culture

Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute (MBCI) hosted their first concert with people in the audience yesterday since 2020. 

Andrew Klassen teaches concert band and jazz band at MBCI.

"We're very excited," says Klassen. "Our jazz bands and vocal jazz ensembles did a concert called An Evening of Jazz at MBCI. What's exciting is that we haven't done this concert in two years. We were in preparation to go to the Brandon Jazz Festival but it shut down."

Another teacher that was a part of yesterday's concert was the vocal teacher at MBCI, Scott Riemer. 

The eagerly anticipated return of Virtuosi Concerts live, in person, takes place this weekend. 

“Serpentine Paths” features violinist Robert Uchida and cellist Rafael Hoekman of Edmonton, with a program opening performance by Miona Milovanovic. 

As Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine approaches its third week, one group of musicians took to the central square in the capital, Kyiv, to perform. 

Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (MCO) oboist Caitlin Broms-Jacobs has always been a fan of early music. 

“When I was in high school, my friends and I would skip down the street singing Renaissance madrigals in four parts,” she says. 

So when the MCO commissioned a new arrangement, Broms-Jacobs was keen to explore some of the repertoire, though reinterpret it for modern wind instruments. 

Tuesday, March 8th 2022 is International Women’s Day.

Each year, a theme accompanies the day of action and celebration. This year is all about #BreaktheBias.

The musical world, indeed does have a clear gender bias: it has been dominated by male composers and performers. 

As Janet Robbins and Maureen Blementhal have written:

Mark Saturday, April 2 on the calendar. 

Manitoba Opera brings their season to a close in a gala concert featuring a quartet of acclaimed Canadian artists:  soprano Andriana Chuchman, mezzo-soprano Catherine Daniel, tenor David Pomeroy, and baritone James Westman.

Accompanied by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tyrone Paterson, the showcase will features favourite selections from the catalogues of Puccini, Verdi, Bizet and Mozart. 

This weekend, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra welcomes back Rei Hotoda to the Centennial Concert Hall as guest conductor.

Current music director of the Fresno Philharmonic, Hotoda got her professional start in Winnipeg serving as assistant conductor from 2006 to 2009. 

“This orchestra has been really key in so many ways in my development as a young conductor and then moving on to being a music director,” says Hotoda.

The love for reading never stops at McNally Robinson Booksellers. 

After a monthlong celebration in February — “I love to read month” — which saw a random act of kindness fill a classroom with books, Chris Hall returned to Classic 107 with his suggestions in the ever-popular “What to Read” feature.

Here are Chris’ picks. 

Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th, at 2:00 at the Rady JCC the  Music and Maven ‘N’: Mavens concert and Lecture series, will present the fantastic Band Ego Spank