Versatile percussionist Shawn Mativetsky is a ganda-band disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai of the Benares tabla gharana and has also studied tabla with Bob Becker. In addition, he has studied western classical percussion with Pierre Béluse, D’Arcy Gray, Andrei Malashenko, and Robert Slapcoff, and the percussion of Kathakali dance-theatre with Bruno Paquet. Shawn holds a […]
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Simon Aldrich
Holder of a doctorate and two masters degrees from Yale University and nominated for an Opus award as “Discovery of the Year”, Simon Aldrich is currently Principal Clarinet of Orchestre Métropolitain. He has also studied at Northwestern University and McGill University. His teachers have included David Shifrin, Robert Marcellus, Joaquin Valdepeñas and Emilio Iacurto. He […]
Simon Wynberg
Simon Wynberg enjoys a diverse career as a guitarist, chamber musician and artistic director. He established and directed the Scottish chamber festival Music in Blair Atholl for 20 years and was artistic director of Canada’s Guelph Spring Festival from 1994 to 2002, when he was appointed Artistic Director of the ARC Ensemble, the ensemble-in-residence at Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music. His entry […]
Simon Rivet
Simon Rivet started classical guitar at the age of 12. First studying with Bruno Roussel at the École de musique de l’Outaouais, he was admitted three years later at the Conservatoire de Musique de Gatineau, where he is undertaking his final year in guitar at the Bachelor level with Patrick Roux. Recipient of a scholarship […]
Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
Founded in 1966, the SMCQ’s mandate is to promote contemporary music at large, either Canadian or international. The organization is managed by composers for the benefit of composers and has had successively three of them as artistic directors: Serge Garant (from 1966 to 1986), Gilles Tremblay (1986 to 1988), and Walter Boudreau since 1988. The […]
Skye Consort
Skye Consort was formed in 1999 with the goal of bringing an art-music aesthetic to the folk music of different world traditions. Skye Consort’s contemporary arrangements bring fresh life to seldom-heard vocal and instrumental pieces from English and French Canada, France, Scandinavia, and the Celtic nations. Core members Seán Dagher (cittern), Alex Kheler (violin, nyckelharpa) and Amanda Keesmaat (cello) […]
Skip Sempé
Skip Sempé, virtouso harpsichordist and founder of Capriccio Stravagante, is at the forefront of today’s musical personalities in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. He has created a depth of interpretive wisdom representing an accomplishment unique in diversity and richness, through an authoratitive knowledge of performance tradition both historical and in the twentieth century. As a solo […]
Sly Philippe
French-Canadian bass-baritone Philippe Sly is already gaining international notoriety for his “beautiful, blooming tone and magnetic stage presence” (San Francisco Chronicle). Mr. Sly is the first prize winner of the prestigious Concours Musical International de Montréal and a grand prize winner Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions singing the varied repertoire of Mozart, Bach, Handel, Stravinsky, and Wagner. Recently, he […]
Stephan MacLeod
In 1991 Stephan MacLeod won various prizes in Swiss competitions and received several scholarships. In 1994 he won the Migros prize in Zurich and the F.V.S. prize in Hamburg. Stephan MacLeod has performed under the direction of Michel Corboz, Helmut Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Frieder Bernius, Reinhard Goebel, Jos van Immerseel, Dennis Russel-Davies, and Sigiswald Kuijken. […]
Sophie Larivière
Sophie Larivière is a musician specialised in early music. She appears with many important music ensembles such as Les Violons du Roy (Quebec) Ensemble Rebel (New York), L’Orchestre Baroque de Montréal, L’Ensemble Arion (Montreal) and Les Idées Heureuses (Montreal), with whom she has toured extensively in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario. In 1997 she joined […]
