Born in Montreal but raised in London, Richard Turp has worked in music for the last 30 years in his hometown, first as an operatic tenor and subsequently as an artistic administrator. He is presently Artistic Director of Les Concerts Lachine and the Lachine Music Festival.
I Musici di Montréal join forces with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal to present Mozart's Requiem in Robert Levin's revised arrangement of the unfinished masterpiece.
Billed as “Midori performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto”, this Orchestre symphonique de Montréal concert conducted by James Colon was notable for a blazing performance of Zemlinsky's symphonic poem Die Seejungfrau.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the chorus and several soloists star in a dramatic version of Bach's St Matthew Passion in which l'Orchestre Métropolitain was less distinguished.
Michel Plasson returns to l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in a program of French music and Karina Gauvin resplendent in Britten's Les Illuminations. It was an object lesson in how to capture the essential essence of French music.
Handel's Solomon is given a revelatory performance by an all-star cast of principles, La Chapelle de Québec and the Violons du Roy under the direction of Bernard Labadie.
Richard Turp sees L’Orchestre symphonique de Québec and conductor Fabien Gabel impress greatly in a program of twentieth century classics by de Falla and Ravel at the Maison symphonique.
In Montreal Richard Turp discovers a modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, Maurice Steger in music of 18th century Naples accompanied by Les Violons du Roy
A substantial musical menu of works by Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz, the poster boys of 19th century Romanticism, along with a world première, presented by l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Marc-André Hamelin and Kent Nagano.
After a wondrous voyage of discovery and a rousing standing ovation, everyone seemed convinced of Salomone Rossi’s neglected genius and Profetti della Quinta’s supreme quality.
Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Yannick Nézet-Séguin score personal triumphs with l’Orchestre Métropolitain in their first concert together in thirteen years.
This seemingly disjointed program from Jacques Lacombe and the Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal included music by Berlioz, Dvořák and Ravel, in addition to a new work by Serge Arcuri: all voyages of complementary but fundamentally different kinds.
On Friday 4 October at the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, Show One Productions in association with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presented the visiting Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra of St Petersburg conducted by its music director for the last 25 years, Valery Gergiev.
