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Beethoven’s path to greatness with the Ehnes Quartet at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival

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CanadaCanada Beethoven, Montreal Chamber Music Festival 2024: Ehnes Quartet (James Ehnes, Amy Schwartz Moretti [violin], Che-Yen Chen [viola], Edward Arron [cello]), Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola). Bourgie Hall, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. (LV)

Yhe Ehnes Quartet playing Beethoven at Bourgie Hall © Fili 周 Gibbons/Studio Apothicaire

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One Night, Two Concerts: Payare’s two very different OSM programmes, two different audiences

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CanadaCanada |One Night, Two Concerts: The OSM and Rafael Payare: Sergio Tiempo (piano), James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare (conductor). Maison symphonique, Montréal, Canada, 6.30pm and 8.15pm, 12.8.2022 (CC)

Rafael Payare © Antoine Saito

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A joyous – if sonically challenged – evening with the OSM at Olympic Park

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CanadaCanada The Many Colours of the Americas: The OSM at Olympic Park: Montréal Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (author), Jeremy Dutcher (singer), Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Pacho Flores (trumpets). Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare (conductor). Olympic Park, Montréal, 10.8.2022. (CC)

Pacho Flores (trumpet) with the OSM conducted by Rafael Payare © Antoine Saito

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From Montréal with pleasure: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme

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CanadaCanada Mozart, Richard Strauss: Todd Cope (clarinet), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). 6.10.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)

Todd Cope and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (c) Antoine Saito

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Playing Beethoven the good old modern way in Montréal’s audiophile Maison symphonique

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CanadaCanada Mozart, Beethoven: James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Bernard Labadie (conductor). 22.9.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)

James Ehnes

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Beethoven Invigorates a Day of Chamber Music in Montréal

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CanadaCanada Bach, Beethoven, Honegger, Ysaÿe: James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano), Carissa Klopoushak, Christina Bouey, Amy Hillis, Emmanuel Vukovich (violins), Cameron Crozman (cello), Richard Raymond (piano). Bourgie Hall, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 14.6.2019. (LV)

James Ehnes (c) Ben Ealovega

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At the Montréal Chamber Music Festival, Ehnes and Armstrong Headline a Busy Day  

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CanadaCanada Beethoven, Bach, Jeffrey Ryan, Prokofiev, Friedrich Hermann: James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano); Martin Beaver, Heemin Choi, Amy Hillis, Byungchan Lee (violins), Carlos Avila (piano). Bourgie Hall, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 13.6.2019. (LV)

James Ehnes (violin) and Andrew Armstrong (piano) (c) Shira Gilbert

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Violinist Hao Zhou Wins Concours Musical International de Montréal

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CanadaCanada Prokofiev, Sibelius, Brahms: Anna Lee (violin), Fumika Mohri (violin), Johanna Pichlmair (violin), Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Alexander Shelley (conductor). Maison Symphonique, Montréal. 5.6.2019. (LV)

Montréal Concours violin finalists: (l to r) Johanna Pichlmair, Hao Zhou,
Elli Choi, Christine Lim, Anna Lee, & Fumika Mohri (c) Tam Lan Truong

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