During the Poulenc CD set recording session, © Vincent Lapointe Montreal-born Olivier Godin enjoys a brilliant career as a pianist and coach in Canada and abroad. He is a vocal-coach at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and is professor and director of the Opera Studio at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. He also […]
Author: Hélène Larocque
Susie Napper
Susie Napper is one of a handful of people who put Montréal on the map as an internationally recognized centre of musical excellence, in particular for early music. Add to this her imagination, sense of humour and entrepreneurial flair, and you have a recipe for a musical dynamo. Cellist, gambist, and continuo player par excellence, […]
2020 JUNO Awards for two ATMA recordings
Last week, two of five nominated ATMA Classique recordings received 2020 JUNO Awards, the nation’s highest music honour! Congratulations are in order for composer Ana Sokolovic, and for the Ottawa Bach Choir under the direction of Lisette Canton. Ana Sokolović is the 2020 JUNO winner for CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR (her second such consecutive […]
A JUNO for Lisette Canton and Ottawa Bach Choir!
Congratulations to Lisette Canton and Ottawa Bach Choir on winning a 2020 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral for their recording Handel: Dixit Dominus; Bach & Schutz: Motets, with contertenor Daniel Taylor .
Ad Litteram Acquires ATMA Classique Label
Montreal, March 30, 2020 – Johanne Goyette, founder and president of ATMA Classique, and Guillaume Lombart, founder and president of Ad Litteram jointly announced that Ad Litteram, a leading company with more than 20 years of experience in the music industry, has entered into an agreement to acquire the ATMA Classique label, effective April 1, […]
Janina Fialkowska on tour across Canada
From February 16 to March 18, 2020, pianist Janina Fialkowska will undertake a cross-Canada tour with a program that is partly inspired by her album Les sons et les parfums…, released last fall on ATMA Classique. This affectionate musical memoir evokes a vibrant portrait of Paris during Fialkowska’s youth, when “Poulenc and Tailleferre were still […]
