Pre-performance ritual: Bananas, dark chocolate, and green tea. My age at first musical awakening: I was 12, and it was with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade that I fell in love. Hobby not related to music: Wild flowers and trees. Thing about me that would surprise people: I’m very clumsy. (I can knock myself out throwing a Frisbee!) […]
To celebrate ATMA’s 20th anniversary, we will be asking artists featured in upcoming releases to answer 20 Questions about their lives, their passions and their music-making. Our first Q&A features pianist Janina Fialkowska, whose new recording of the complete Chopin Mazurkas will be released on September 9, 2014. 20 Questions for Janina Fialkowska Pre-performance ritual: […]
On the occasion of ATMA Classique’s 20th anniversary, we thought it would be a great opportunity to speak with president Johanne Goyette. Since founding ATMA Classique in 1994, Johanne divides her time between record producing, managing the company, and artistic planning. The hallmark of the ATMA brand is her distinctive flair and production style. We […]
Cellist Elinor Frey is a member of period ensemble Pallade Musica, the 2012 Grand Prize winners at the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition in New York. Pallade Musica brings together four of Montréal’s most promising period instrument performers including Elinor on Baroque cello, Tanya LaPerrière, Baroque violin, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mylène Bélanger, […]
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 […]
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, […]
