Gold Winner Blue Engine String Quartet Silver Winner 
Symphony Nova Scotia Bronze Winner Rhapsody Quintet The Gold and Silver awards in this category are more or less linked, as the Blue Engine String Quartet’s “day job” is playing in Symphony Nova Scotia. “As Blue Engine, we’ve been part of Halifax’s amazing music scene going on […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia’s dirty 30
You may not know this, but Symphony Nova Scotia does more than just play rockin’ concerts with folk musicians at the Rebecca Cohn. What?! It’s true—not just Mangan, but Bach! Chopin! Beethoven! If you’re unacquainted with this side of our great city’s Symphony, now’s the time to say hello. Symphony Nova Scotia is celebrating its […]
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Symphony NS’s Bernhard Gueller conducts at FIFA
Andrew Brown Listen for a little bit of Nova Scotia at the World Cup: Maestro Bernhard Gueller, the music director for Symphony Nova Scotia, has been “conducting and recording back-up tracks (including Beethoven’s Ninth) for the opening and closing ceremonies with the Johannesburg Philharmonic.” Gueller, whose international resume makes my head spin, was also named […]
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Singing Christina Murray’s praises
Camerata Xara is definitely not your grandmother’s choir. The cutting-edge young women’s choir is pushing the boundaries of traditional choral music. The group’s conductor, Christina Murray, avoids conventional church music, finding inspiration in trippy dream sequences; feminist theories of power-inversions; foreign melodies that confuse Western ears; edgy Scandinavian choral ensembles and theatre. “The group has […]
