Pre-concert ritual: Since organ concerts are always in different places and on different instruments, I follow a very simple and traditional routine. Lots of rest on the morning of the concert, of course. No more than 90 minutes of warm-up and practice. Lots of carbs (pasta, chocolate, etc.) since an organ recital requires significant physical […]
20 questions for Fandango’s Simon Rivet
Le Quatuor Fandango: de gauche à droite, J. Geisterfer, R.-A. Martinez-Lissow, T.-E. Hinse-Paré, S. Rivet Pre-performance ritual: Nothing special, just the usual routine of an alert guitarist: filing nails, tuning, finger exercises, followed by 10 minutes of meditation before the performance. My age at first musical awakening: I grew up in a musical family, […]
20 Questions for Catherine Perrin
Pre-performance ritual: Bananas, dark chocolate, and green tea. My age at first musical awakening: I was 12, and it was with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade that I fell in love. Hobby not related to music: Wild flowers and trees. Thing about me that would surprise people: I’m very clumsy. (I can knock myself out throwing a Frisbee!) […]
20 Questions for Janina Fialkowska
To celebrate ATMA’s 20th anniversary, we will be asking artists featured in upcoming releases to answer 20 Questions about their lives, their passions and their music-making. Our first Q&A features pianist Janina Fialkowska, whose new recording of the complete Chopin Mazurkas will be released on September 9, 2014. 20 Questions for Janina Fialkowska Pre-performance ritual: […]
Q & A with Johanne Goyette
On the occasion of ATMA Classique’s 20th anniversary, we thought it would be a great opportunity to speak with president Johanne Goyette. Since founding ATMA Classique in 1994, Johanne divides her time between record producing, managing the company, and artistic planning. The hallmark of the ATMA brand is her distinctive flair and production style. We […]
Q & A with Pallade Musica’s Elinor Frey
Cellist Elinor Frey is a member of period ensemble Pallade Musica, the 2012 Grand Prize winners at the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition in New York. Pallade Musica brings together four of Montréal’s most promising period instrument performers including Elinor on Baroque cello, Tanya LaPerrière, Baroque violin, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mylène Bélanger, […]
Q & A with Olivier Godin
During the Poulenc CD set recording session, © Vincent Lapointe Montreal-born Olivier Godin enjoys a brilliant career as a pianist and coach in Canada and abroad. He is a vocal-coach at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and is professor and director of the Opera Studio at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. He also […]
Susie Napper
Susie Napper is one of a handful of people who put Montréal on the map as an internationally recognized centre of musical excellence, in particular for early music. Add to this her imagination, sense of humour and entrepreneurial flair, and you have a recipe for a musical dynamo. Cellist, gambist, and continuo player par excellence, […]
2020 JUNO Awards for two ATMA recordings
Last week, two of five nominated ATMA Classique recordings received 2020 JUNO Awards, the nation’s highest music honour! Congratulations are in order for composer Ana Sokolovic, and for the Ottawa Bach Choir under the direction of Lisette Canton. Ana Sokolović is the 2020 JUNO winner for CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR (her second such consecutive […]
A JUNO for Lisette Canton and Ottawa Bach Choir!
Congratulations to Lisette Canton and Ottawa Bach Choir on winning a 2020 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral for their recording Handel: Dixit Dominus; Bach & Schutz: Motets, with contertenor Daniel Taylor .
