The annual
GGS Concerto Competition Finals returns to Koerner Hall on
Wednesday, January 26 at 4pm! Winners receive both a cash prize and an opportunity to perform a concerto with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra during its 2022-23 concert season. Free tickets will be available starting at 10am on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. This event will also be livestreamed on
RoyalConservatory.Live.
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Sae Yoon Chon (BMus ’19 / ADP ’21, piano) made his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on November 15, with a program of works by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Brahms. According to reviewer Roman Markowicz (ConcertoNet.com), Sae Yoon’s encore performance of Scriabin’s
Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone was “alone was worth the price of admission…a masterful interpretation, and the crowning achievement of a very successful New York debut.”
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Danny Koo (2018-19 Rebanks Fellow, violin) has signed with Warner Music Korea. His first release is a mixed genre album and it will be followed by a classical recording.
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Joella Pinto (ADP ‘19, violin) has joined the violin section of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand’s full-time professional Metropolitan orchestra. It serves the country’s largest and most vibrant city through its own annual concert series and its support of the NBR New Zealand Opera and Royal New Zealand Ballet.
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Dr. Joel Katz (voice faculty) was a co-author of the article “Optimizing song retention through the spacing effect”, which recently appeared in the journal
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. This article examines improvement in memory retention for materials learned over a series of sessions when using words and music in song, rather than the standard use of word lists.
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CBC Music’s “Canada’s Top 21 Classical Albums of 2021” includes:
Chopin: Complete Nocturnes –
Jan Lisiecki (PDP ’18, piano),
Klebanov: Chamber Works – ARC Ensemble,
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 –
David Jalbert (ADP ’01, piano) and
Debussy: Preludes, Book 1 – Jean-Luc Therrien (ADP ’20 / 2021-22 Rebanks Fellow, piano).
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The 2022 Grammy Nominations included recordings featuring Vocal Chair
Adrianne Pieczonka (
Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites, Metropolitan Opera – Best Opera Recording) and the
ARC Ensemble (
Klebanov: Chamber Works, David Frost – Producer of the Year, Classical).
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