Arts & Culture

Winnipeg’s premier daytime concert and lecture series, Music N Mavens, comes to a close this Thursday after 9 wonderful weeks of music-making and presentations at the Rady JCC.  

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. 

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra revealed their upcoming season over the weekend. 

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.  

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.

Music N’ Mavens, featuring marvelous daytime performances and engaging lectures, continues at the Rady JCC with a performance that keeps it in the family.  

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.

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.  

Local author and artist, Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon is using her great-grandparent's story of migrating to Canada as inspiration for her latest artistic project.

Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon has her exhibit Ukraine: Close to Home on display at the Mennonite Heritage Centre (MHC) Gallery alongside Leaving Canada: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico by the Mennonite Heritage Village and supporters.

The celebration of Canada's musical best officially got underway over the weekend.

On Saturday, March 11, more than 40 awards were presented at the 2023 Juno Opening Night Awards in Edmonton, including in the classical and jazz categories. 

Winners (and some of their online reactions) are noted in bold. 

The Juno Awards ceremony will air on Monday, March 13, televised and broadcast from Rogers Place.