April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a...
April 7, 2018 – Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory – Toronto What do you think of when you think of a musical Toronto sound? For me...
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 will probably...
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 de Londres,...
On the 27th of October, 2017 Canadian lovers of music were again given the opportunity to sit and listen to the legendary Chilean nueva canción ensemble,...
Performance Review: Susana Baca At Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY – March 17, 2017 The Afro-Peruvian singer-songwriter Susana Baca made a rare appearance at PIONEER WORKS, a...
Touched Down In Brampton – Powerade Centre – July 26, 2016 Simili – Similares Through a series of connections made in far away places I came...
On the evening of April 1, 2016, Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum and Turkuaz TV (which is Canada’s only Turkish community television program), co-presented two outstanding musicians...
Singer and guitarist José Feliciano (born 1945) is one of the best known Hispanic entertainers in the United States and a major star in the Spanish-speaking...
On Friday, October 2nd and Saturday, October 3rd, I had the opportunity and the pleasure of attending two mesmerizing performances that took place at the magnificent...
I have been listening to the music of Lenka Lichtenberg for some time now. Still, it never fails to amaze me that I find myself catching...
An exciting and engaging show of Jully Black and her band on Saturday March 1st, celebrated Markham’s own, “Canada’s Queen of R&B” homecoming at the Flato...
I waited for his concert with bated breath. The tickets were purchased about a year ago. Then Kuwait was invaded by Iraq and suddenly it was...
When the lineup for the new season at the Markham Flato Theatre in Markham was announced in the spring of this year, the biggest wave of...
“To hear David Broza’s music is to be moved. To see Broza in concert is to be mesmerized.” – (New York Post) Back in 1977 when...
Romulo Larrea Tango Ensemble – Tangos: From Gardel to Piazzolla Photographs by Atael Weissman On the evening of March 8, 2013, Romulo Larrea and his acclaimed...
“Much like Chavela, Buika is able to make her audience feel completely exposed. Her songs transport us to a place where we are left face to...
It was a magical night for Canadian singer/songwriter Amanda Martínez. During this long-awaited concert at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall, followers of Ms. Martínez...
It is eight o’clock and the audience has taken its seats in the musical shrine, Massey Hall. A cursory look around reveals that the audience comprises...
Last weekend Bogotá, the Colombian capital, celebrated another edition of Salsa al Parque, one of the biggest salsa festivals in Latin America. This is the fourteenth...
First there was life; then death and then life again. Perhaps that’s because human have a natural tendency to aspire...
If a record label – or imprint – were to be considered an “unfillable” library in the sense that the...
Ana-Marija Markovina: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Complete Works for Piano [Solo] Few composers – artistic geniuses at that – have...
Not long ago – despite the advent of the Renaissance of African American composers of music in the classical realm...
There has been a plethora of re-issued recordings in the past few years, but none quite like this on –...
The brilliant young guitarist Plínio Fernandes proves once again [although he probably did not set out to do so] that...
Nella Rojas, or simply Nella, is a new voice hailing from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita Born in Venezuela, Nella...
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux: so many bands that...
His sugarcane-sweet melodies, pop-soul hooks and powerful guitar riffs, relinquish a conventional stereotype that exemplifies much of the Latin music...