![]() These payments sit below the commonly-used Henderson poverty line, which suggests income below $87.32 per day puts you in povertyĪccording to a report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), 41 per cent of JobSeeker and Youth Allowance recipients in 2019 had disabilities.Youth Allowance (no children, over 18, live away from parents): $43.05 a day.JobSeeker (single, no children): $53.51 a day.Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony cellist Kendra Grittani shares her thoughts on the abrupt cancellation of the KWS’s 2023-2024 season, and their subsequent filing for bankruptcy."I want to work, but it's all about the kind of work and the amount of hours and whether it's sustainable for my health and to live on," she said. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will also have to fill in as conductor in New York on Nov. 25 and 26 concerts of the Staatskapelle Berlin’s Brahms cycle. Local NewsĬonductor Daniel Barenboim has cancelled his North America tour ( Opera Wire), leaving Giedrė Šlekytė to conduct Toronto’s Nov. The first place Robert Frederick Smith prize comes with a $50,000 USD award and several opportunities to perform as an orchestral soloist with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. Twenty semi-finalists – nine in the junior division and eleven in the senior division – have been chosen for the 2024 Sphinx Competition ( The Violin Channel), which offers mentorship opportunities to Black and Latin string players. 26 for first prize ($5,000 USD and two weeks of advanced training at Orford Music). The Auguste-Descarries Piano Competition has announced 2023’s finalists ( Ludwig Van): Emmanuel Roberts Dugal, Emmanuel Laforest, and Antoine Rivard-Landry. Pianist Veola Sun (student of Ilya Poletaev) has won the 2023-2024 McGill University Concerto Competition, in Montreal, QC. 8, 2024.īryan Cheng has won the Virginia Parker Prize, awarded to “an outstanding young Canadian musician under the age of 32” and valued at $25,000, according to The Violin Channel. The NAC Mentorship Program is open to instrumentalists aged 18+ who “are completing their performance degree, are on the audition circuit, or have recently started a position in a professional orchestra.” National and international students alike are invited to submit recordings to apply for a position in the full string, full brass, full wind, and full percussion/timpani sections. Zoe Lin has also been named the new deputy director ( The Violin Channel) for the competition. The application period ends at the start of February. It’s open to violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists aged 15 to 23. 10.Īpplications are now open for the 39th Klein International String Competition, which takes place June 1 and 2, 2024. Linda Catlin Smith and Thin Edge New Music Collective released Dark Flower, a collection of some of Smith’s atmospheric compositions from the last 25 years, on Nov. Violinist Naomi Dumas and harpsichordist Caitlyn Koester, who form the AKOYA duo, are making their ATMA Classique debut with Graupner: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord. JoAnn Falletta will conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ( Stir) in their performance of Ravel’s and other French symphonic composers’ music on Dec. Otto Tausk and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts will present 5 Piano Fantasy: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Holst, a display of symphonic grandeur associated with “magical realms, lightsabers, and distant planets,” on Nov. Mayfield Dinner Theatre is rebooting one of its classics: Canada Rocks, a “musical review of Canadian artistry and culture” that hasn’t seen the stage in 5 years, according to CTV News. He had been fighting prostate cancer since January 2020 and finally succumbed to the disease at 47. Quebecois rock fans are also mourning the loss of Karl Tremblay ( CBC), lead singer for Les Cowboys Fringants. ![]() As has co-founder and longest-serving Artistic and Executive Director of Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, Norman Armour. ![]() Violin teacher and artistic director of the International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Petru Munteanu ( Slipped Disc), has died. He’s performed at over 2,000 concerts, won 10 music prizes, and organized over 50 music International Claude Kahn Piano Competition events as its president. Pianist Claude Kahn ( Radio Classique) has died at 88. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his Alice in Wonderland-inspired soprano solo and orchestra track In Memory of a Summer Day, which was eventually adapted for ballet and performed by the National Ballet of Canada. He was best known for his unique neo-romantic style and the influence of his LGBT+ identity on his work. American composer David Del Tredici ( Opera Wire) died from complications due to Parkinson’s disease at 86.
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