Yoav Talmi, artistic director of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec since 1998, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic. He has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; the philharmonic orchestras of St. Petersburg, Oslo, Stockholm, and Warsaw, as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Vienna, […]
After studying music at the Université de Montréal, Yvan Sabourin obtained a master’s degree in choral conducting at the Université de Sherbrooke under the supervision of visiting professor Nicole Paiement. Recently he completed an advanced program during three years with Bernard Têtu in France. Yvan Sabourin has directed several choirs in the Montreal region, including […]
Yves-G. Préfontaine is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he studied organ and harpsichord, first with Bernard and Mireille Lagacé, and then with Scott Ross. He was awarded first prizes in each of these instruments. He continued his harpsichord studies with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam and, as a soloist and a chamber musician, has played for most […]
Yuri Gorodetski was born in Mogilev, Belarus. After graduating from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in 2007(with Viktor I. Scorobogatov), he studied with Raina Kabaivanska at the Vecchi Tonelli Institute in Modena and at the Chapelle Musical Reine Elisabeth in Belgium with José van Dam. Currently,Yuri is a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program inWashington, DC. Awards include […]
Yuri Gorodetski was born in Mogilev, Belarus. After graduating from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in 2007(with Viktor I. Scorobogatov), he studied with Raina Kabaivanska at the Vecchi Tonelli Institute in Modena and at the Chapelle Musical Reine Elisabeth in Belgium with José van Dam. Currently,Yuri is a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program inWashington, DC. Awards include […]
Recent highlights of American tenor Zachary Wilder include un Sylphe in Rameau’s Zaïs at the Festival de Beaune with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset (Amsterdam, Versailles and Vienna), a Bach programme with Mercury Houston, Damon (Acis and Galatea) in California with The American Bach soloists, Septimus (Theodora)with Early Music Vancouver, Haydn’s Die sieben letzten […]
Ziya Tabassian started playing the tombak at the age of 11. He began his formal training in Iran and has pursued his training independently by following the classic treatise by tombak master Hossein Teherani. From 1994 to 2001, he studied classical percussion under Julien Grégoire and completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance at […]