Ian Cochrane is a retired music teacher who hails from Montreal, Canada. He holds music degrees from McGill University, the University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Calgary. He has attended conducting seminars at the University of Michigan as well as Northwestern University. Ian has edited a variety of music journals. His articles have been published in both professional and refereed journals. In addition, he has written music curricula- both provincial and national. Ian’s concert reviews have been in published in La Scena magazine. Ian has extensive performance experience as an instrumentalist, chorister, and conductor.
As part of its Schubert Festival, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal wowed the audience with a concert that featured excerpts from Rossini operas as well as two Schubert symphonies.
Yefim Bronfman's performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 highlighted Maestro Lorenzo Viotti's guest-conducting appearance with Montreal's Orchestre Symphonique.
Native sons Samy Moussa and Andrew Wan combine their considerable talents for a sensational world premiere of a violin concerto that was commissioned by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
Sir András Schiff performed Haydn and Beethoven concertos with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and young assistant conductor Thomas Le Duc-Moreau rises to the challenge conducting Brahms.
Three Montreal luminaries of symphonic music, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marina Thibeault and Violet Archer, contributed to a delightful afternoon concert entitled Berlioz in Italy.
Although both Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony and Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise explore the role religion plays in the cultivation of the human spirit, they are in many aspects sharply contrasting works. This made for an appealing concert by Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain and their conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Michael Tilson Thomas had a spectacular debut with Montreal's Orchestre Symphonique. George Li's performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 was breath-taking.
Three contrasting 20th-century masterworks were judiciously crafted and insightfully honed by the Orchestre Symphonique of Montreal and their music director Kent Nagano.
