The biggest chamber music festival in the region, the Scotia Festival of Music offers intimate showcases and big ticket concerts with the biggest names in its genre. A staple of the Halifax live music scene, the event has been around for four decades. What is the official name? The Scotia Festival of Music What is […]
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Scotia Festival of Music and Chris Wilcox: 40 years and 40 festivals
O ften referred to as the “music of friends,” chamber music has stood the test of time as a genre that, from the Medieval period to present day, has relied on the cohesion, synchronicity and mutual respect of all involved. For musicians of the genre, the intimate sense of community, memories and moments shared are […]
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NEWFANGLED takes you behind the scores
NEWFANGLED w/Derek Charke Thursday, April 18, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall at the Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road free Pianist Barbara Pritchard and vocalist Janice Isabel Jackson form the duo NEWFANGLED and are bringing their 30-plus years of experience to perform some of Canada’s best contemporary works, free to the public at Paul O’Regan […]
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Sara Davis Buechner’s music magic
Sara Davis Buechner Saturday, November 17, 7pm Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts 6199 Chebucto Road $10-$35 ceciliaconcerts.ca Pianist Sara Davis Buechner is ready to give Halifax concertgoers a recital they won’t soon forget. An acclaimed musician who’s seen her share of personal and professional struggles as a transgender individual, it’s a […]
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Head to the Lake
Lady of the Lake album release Tuesday, July 11, 6:30pm Board Room Game Cafe Bedford 936 Bedford Highway Wednesday, July 12, 3:30-5pm Press Gang Restaurant & Oyster Bar 5218 Prince Street Maureen Batt and Jeremy VanSlyke had a vision to do something that hadn’t been done before in classical music—record the entire song cycle of […]
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Classical Yas
Yas Quartet Sunday, March 26, 7pm Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts 6199 Chebucto Road $10-$30 ceciliaconcerts.ca Yas Quartet has been making waves. The international string group is fresh off a third-place win at the 2016 Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. Made up of violinists John Heffernan and Artem Kolesov, cellist Titilayo Ayangade (who has […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia announces 2017/18 concert season
This afternoon Symphony Nova Scotia announced their upcoming 2017/18 season with a full orchestra preview of highlights, which include good ol’ classics like Beethoven’s Ninth and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Halifax Pop Explosion’s Ria Mae concert and The Music of David Bowie “Our upcoming concerts include the sublime Brahms Violin Concerto and his First Piano […]
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Marc-André Hamelin is on an emotional rescue mission
Celebrated pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin isn’t worried you think classical music is dead. The Order of Canada recipient, who’s performing with Symphony Nova Scotia at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Thursday and Friday nights, says the often-misunderstood genre is as alive as ever: “There are many, many immortal masterpieces that will never die,” he […]
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Dive into Open Waters
“There the jazz archipelago and the classical archipelago. They can be traversed, it’s not impassable, there’s no barriers between them, except maybe distance,” says Lukas Pearse, the artistic director of this year’s Open Waters Festival. From Thursday to Sunday, Upstream Music will collaborate with Symphony Nova Scotia, SuddenlyListen and more for 14 extraordinary music events. […]
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Scotia Festival enters the 35th chamber
Halifax loves its summer festivals. Halifax Jazz, Multifest, OBEY, Fringe—as soon as patio season starts, we’re ready for music and theatre and dancing in any number of our parking lots/festival sites. One of the oldest of these festivals (and one that appreciates atmosphere and the value of comfortable seating) is the Scotia Festival of Music, […]