Overflowing with musical opportunity: Agassiz Chamber Music Festival returns!
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.
WTR in the month of June!
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."
Chasing Visions: celebrating Manitoba’s LBGTQ* community through song
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.
Sound the horn: prairie premiere of a new concerto by Kati Agócs
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.
MCO brings some sommer to Winterpeg: Renowned horn player James Sommerville performs tonight and tomorrow
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.
Summer music and arts camp returns to the International Peace Gardens
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.
Painter capturing self-reflection and faith in artwork
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).
Winnipeg Pops Orchestra back in concert!
For more than 6 decades, the community-driven Winnipeg Pops Orchestra has presented a variety of musical styles to audiences across Winnipeg and Manitoba, at venues such as the Lyric Theatre, ScotiaBank Stage, and this week a free performance at Lutheran Church of the Cross.
Third time’s the charm for Three Decembers
A long overdue premiere by one of contemporary music’s most popular figures.
Little Opera Company (LOC) presents the Canadian premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Three Decembers.”
Classical and jazz winners at the JUNOS
The 2022 Juno Awards were handed out over two nights in Toronto this past weekend.
Often called the “Canadian Grammys,” this year’s big winners included electro-pop singer-songwriter Charlotte Cardin taking home four JUNOS — including “Artist of the Year” and “Album of the Year” — and global music superstar the Weeknd — “Songwriter of the Year” and “Best Contemporary R&B Recording.”
In the classical categories, Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin were awarded a Juno for the second volume in their complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano.