Tangi Ropars: Moskitto’s Here to Stay
Tangi Ropars is one of three Moskittos who you won’t be able to make go away, much less swat. He comes from hardy stock...
The Toronto Sound: David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana
April 7, 2018 - Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory - Toronto
When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured...
The Toronto Sound: KUNÉ – Canada’s Global Orchestra
April 7, 2018 - Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory - Toronto
What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For...
Marcelo Woloski: Mundo Por Conocer
In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations,...
Eve A Ma: Afro-Peruvian Rhythms Beckon
If you are an ethnomusicologist on a quest to study a particular style of music you deep-dive. But every deep-dive demands that you must...
Bengt Berger: The Wide World of Beches Indian Brew
Don Cherry was, arguably, the first musician to use the term “world-music” to describe the music he was playing in the 1960’s. By that...
Tcha Limberger: From Bruges and Foix to the World
It is important to acknowledge the genius of Tcha Limberger in the context of his being a musical – perhaps, an all-around – polymath...
Mario Adnet & Paulo Jobim Present Jobim at 90 With: Jobim – Orchestra &...
There can be no doubt that Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of the most important cultural figures in Brasil, an icon even among other...
All Rivers at Once by The Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative
The poem, All Rivers at Once written by Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, is the inspiration for the performance of the Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative...
David Broza: The 40-Year Journey to Peace
It is one of those true travesties that an artist such as David Broza should still inhabit the fringes of music. While it’s also...
Angela Hewitt: At the Heart of Bach
As long as musicians such as Keith Jarrett play and record Johann Sebastian Bach’s most frequently performed keyboard (harpsichord) works on the harpsichord there...
Barbara Hannigan: An Evening with the Empress of Song
Two years ago I saw Barbara Hannigan perform György Ligeti’s Mystères du Macabre dressed in a schoolgirl’s kilt, chewing bubblegum. The orchestra was Sinfónica...
Joanna Wallfisch: Journey Of The Heart
North American listeners have been introduced to the music of the British-born multi-instrumentalist, writer and vocalist, Joanna Wallfisch. She has regaled her audiences from...
Inti-Illimani and Nano Stern: Bringing the House Down
On the 27th of October, 2017 Canadian lovers of music were again given the opportunity to sit and listen to the legendary Chilean nueva...
Putumayo Presents: A World in Music
Putumayo World Music is a New York-based label that has few peers anywhere in the world of music. It single-handedly introduces listeners to music...
Cecilia Pahl: Interior y Litorâneo
The Puerto Rico-born Cecilia Pahl, who moved to Posadas, Misiones in Argentina, via Cordoba, Spain is now not only a seasoned traveller, but a...
L’Afrique avant tout: Se souvenir du 31ème Festival International Nuits d’Afrique
Memories are apparently rampant especially in Montréal, Quebec. After all every licence plate on a motorcar contains a registration number and the words “Québec…...
Berta Rojas – The Enigma of Arrival
I rarely conduct interviews using email and don’t really like doing them over the telephone either. In my view, the talking and listening –...
With Love From Africa: 31st Festival International Nuits d’Afrique, 2017
“Aimez-moi comme un beau rêve,
votre vie la nuit,
mon espoir le jour,
comme une pièce d’argent
sur terre ne m’en sépare,
et pour le grand voyage
fidèle compagne;
comme la...
The New Canadian Global Music Orchestra Debut at Koerner Hall
The New Canadian Global Music Orchestra, recently created by The Royal Conservatory of Toronto and masterminded by its Executive Director, Performing Art, Mervon Mehta,...
