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Montreal International Musical Competition
The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) is an elite-level competition for classical musicians who are interested in pursuing an international career as a professional concert artist. Established in 2001 by the late André Bourbeau and by the late French-Canadian bass Joseph Rouleau, the CMIM features three disciplines - voice, violin and piano - on a rotating basis over a three-year cycle. The CMIM is composed of four rounds: the preliminary round (based on video recordings), the first round, the semi-finals and the finals. Award winners receive prizes and grants valued at over $150,000. The 2024 edition, dedicated to the piano, will be followed by the voice edition in 2025 and the violin edition in 2026. André Bourbeau was the president of the Competition since its first edition in 2002 and was succeeded by François R. Roy in 2018. Since May 2004, the CMIM has been a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. In September 2023, Chantal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Rouleau
Joseph A. Rouleau, (February 28, 1929 – July 12, 2019) was a French Canadian Bass (voice type), bass opera singer, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires. Life and career Born in Matane, Quebec, he studied privately with Édouard Woolley and Albert Cornellier in Montreal, and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Martial Singher. In 1950–1951, Joseph participated in his first tour with Jeunesses Musicales Canada, of 40 concerts across the province of Québec. He went to Milan, Italy, for complementary studies with Mario Basiola and Antonio Narducci. He sang small roles with the Opéra national du Québec, but his real debut was as Colline in ''La bohème'', in New Orleans Opera, in 1955. He made his Opera Guild of Montreal debut as Philip II in ''Don Carlos'' (one of his greatest roles) in 1956. He also appeared in concert and on Canadian radio and television. Engaged by the Royal Opera House in London, Rouleau sang with the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Sly
Philippe Sly (born 1988 or 1989 in Ottawa) is a Canadian bass-baritone and opera, oratorio and recital singer. Biography Sly grew up in Ottawa, joined local boys and adult choirs and studied music at McGill University. In 2011 he was one of the winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, during which time he was taught by Sanford Sylvan and was a recipient of the Choquette-Symcox Award, conferred by JM Canada Foundation and Jeunesses Musicales Canada. The following year, 2012, he won the Grand Prize of the Montreal International Musical Competition. At San Francisco Opera, he joined the company's Merola training program in 2011 and won the SF Opera Adler Fellowship in 2013. Here in June 2013 he debuted as Guglielmo in ''Cosi fan tutte'' and in June 2015 as Figaro in ''Le nozze di Figaro''. In June 2017 he debuted in the title role of ''Don Giovanni'' at Aix-en-Provence Festival. He sang as ''Leporello'' in Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Paris The Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Tanneberger
Marcus Tanneberger (born 1987 in Berlin) is a German violinist. Career Tanneberger was born in Berlin. His parents arranged for him to have earliest violin instruction at the age of three and a half. He gave his first public performance at the age of five. First as a six-year-old and then when he was eight, he achieved the highest score when taking part in the nationwide Jugend musiziert music competition sponsored by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany and supported by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Since September 1997 Tanneberger has been studying with Professor Ana Chumachenco at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where he was admitted for advanced placement study in 1998. He was a scholarship recipient of the Karl-Böhm-Stiftung in Munich from 1997 to 2001, enabling him to perform in several concerts in Germany and abroad. From among almost 211 competitors, in May 2006 he received 3rd Grand Priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinjoo Cho
Jinjoo Cho (; born 1988) is a South Korean violinist. She gained international recognition after winning first prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2014. Cho has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and currently teaches violin in the United States. Early life and education Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea. She graduated from Yewon Art School and also attended the Pre-College program at the Korean National University of Arts. In 2002, she moved to the United States, where she studied in the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music (2002–2006) under Paul Kantor. Cho continued her education at the Curtis Institute of Music (2006–2007), studying with Joseph Silverstein and Pamela Frank. She returned to the Cleveland Institute of Music and received her Bachelor of Music degree in 2011 under Kantor. Cho completed her Master of Music degree in 2013 and obtained a Professional Studies certificate in 2015, both und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Fiset
Marianne () has been the national personification of the France, French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of Liberté, égalité, fraternité, liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Liberty (personification), Goddess of Liberty. Marianne is displayed in many places in France and holds a Place of honor, place of honour in town halls and law courts. She is depicted in the ''Triumph of the Republic'', a bronze sculpture overlooking the Place de la Nation in Paris, as well as represented with another Parisian statue on the Place de la République. Her profile stands out on the official government logo of the country, and appears on French euro coins and on Postage stamps of France, French postage stamps. She was also featured on the former French franc, franc currency and is officially used on most government documents. Marianne is a significant Republicanism, republican symbol; her French monarchist equivalent is often Joan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Moutouzkine , a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name "Alexandre"
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Nareh Arghamanyan
Nareh Arghamanyan (; born in Vanadzor, Armenia, 1989) is an Armenian pianist. She won 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition. Early life Arghamanyan began her piano studies at the age of five. At the age of eight, she entered the Tchaikovsky Music School for Talented Children in Yerevan, where she studied with Alexander Gurgenov. In 2004, she became the youngest student to be admitted to the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and studied with Heinz Medjimorec. Career In 2008, Arghamanyan won the Montreal International Music Competition. In 2009 and 2010, Arghamanyan performed in several cities throughout the United States, including Miami, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, San Juan, San Francisco, and Fresno. She also performed at the Frick Collection in New York City. Arghamanyan has performed with the Mont Blanc Symphony France, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic, and the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. Arghamanyan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Meade
Angela Meade (born 1977) is an American operatic soprano. Life and career Meade has won more than 50 vocal competitions, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2007) and the Grand Prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition (2009). In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Richard Tucker Award and in 2012 she was the recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Artist Award. Meade made her professional operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Elvira in Verdi's ''Ernani'' in March 2008 stepping in for an ill colleague, a role she reprised with the company in February 2012, which was broadcast as part of the Met's Live in HD series and in March/April 2015. At the Met she has also performed the roles of the Countess in Mozart's ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' (2009) and the title roles in both Donizetti's ''Anna Bolena'' (2011) and Bellini's ''Norma'' (2013) as well as Leonora in Verdi's '' Il trovatore'' (2013 and 2016), and Alice in Verdi's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Bendix-Balgley
Noah Bendix-Balgley (born July 15, 1984) is an American classical violinist. He is currently First Concertmaster with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He served as concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2014. Biography and career Noah Bendix-Balgley was born on July 15, 1984, in Asheville, North Carolina. He began playing the violin at age four. He attended the Crowden School in Berkeley, California, and was concertmaster in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He then went on to study with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where he worked with pedagogue Ana Chumachenco. He plays a 1732 Bergonzi violin that had previously been owned by Nigel Kennedy. Bendix-Balgley has won prizes in a number of competitions. In 2008, he won third prize, together with a special prize for creativity, at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, and he was a laureate of the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikita Borisoglebsky
Nikita Arkadievich Boriso-Glebsky (; born 30 August 1985) is a Russian violinist, soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, and winner of international music contests. He represented at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2002. Early life Nikita Boriso-Glebsky was born in Volgodonsk, Southern Russia, in 1985. His parents work as chemists. Boriso-Glebsky started his musical instruments training at the age of six. He took up piano lessons first but then decided to play violin after starting school. At the age of ten, he performed with the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra the Violin Concert No. 22 by Gioivanni Viotti. At the age of fourteen Boriso-Glebsky graduated to the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory to the violin division by Professor Eduard Grach and Associate Professor Tatiana Berkul. When he was studying at the conservatory, he took part in the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourses in Israel, under the guidance of Ida Haendel and Shlomo Mintz. Furthermore, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Beilman
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twelfth and youngest son overall in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also considered the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King of Amnanum� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
