Justin Elie News
Hatian pianist (1883-1931)
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2022-01-29 00:28:53
Kevin Scott writes: Good morning, all! I hope everyone has had a wonderful start to the new year and that we're looking forward to a lot of new things that will happen in the coming months ahead, the news on this end is off to a great beginning as well. Here are my announcements of upcoming performances and events for this year (thus far): This past Saturday (22 January), The Lowell Chamber Orchestra under the direction of its founder Orlando Cela officially recorded my second little symphony for seven players in Lowell, Massachusetts for an upcoming recording on Parma Records that is comprised of five of Darius Milhaud's petite […]
2021-03-24 08:41:01
Rising to the challenge: the East Neuk Festival returns in July with alfresco and pop-up performances, digital concerts and much more
2021 East Neuk Festival - ENF Arts Activist David Behrens at Lady's Tower near Elie, Scotland © East Neuk Festival If 2020 proved a nightmare for small arts organisations, then 2021 remains a great challenge, with uncertainty about what will physically be possible for Summer events. Like many smaller organisations the East Neuk Festival in Fife is turning challenge into opportunity and responding imaginatively to potential restrictions. This year's festival, which takes place from 1-4 July 2021, will combine al fresco performances, pop-up events, digital performance, art installations, community-led projects, and radio broadcasts. During 2020 the festival created a number of recordings with guitarist Sean Shibe and violinist Benjamin Baker in Fife in November 2020, and these helped the festival to engage with a global audience. This will be continued in 2021 with four carefully curated films, featuring oud player Rihab Azar, violinist Benjamin Baker, the Castalian String Quartet […]
2020-08-28 22:29:00
New Focus Recordings: Cellist Diana Golden Releases Tanbou Kache With Pianist Shawn Chang: An Album that Celebrates Haiti’s Rich Art Music Traditions
[…] Tanbou Kache (Hidden Drum) outlines the stylistic and chronological trajectory of key composers within this tradition from the 20th century to the present, painting an ever-changing, historical picture of the leading composers of the Haitian national school of classical composition. Recorded with pianist Shawn Chang, the album highlights Haitian cello and piano music by Jean “Rudy” Perrault, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Julio Racine, Carmen Brouard, Frantz Casséus, Werner Jaegerhuber, and Justin Élie. The album cover artwork was painted by Haitian-American artist Gina Samson and the liner notes were written by Dr. Claude Dauphin, a leading scholar of Haitian music. In 2011, Golden began working for Open Access to Music Education for Children, a music center for Boston’s Haitian community run by Youth and Family Enrichment Services. While working with cello students who had left Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, Golden found that […]
2020-06-28 22:56:15
Congolese-Belgian violinist and conductor Georges-Elie Octors has passed away – aged 97. A graduate of the Brussels Conservatoire, where he studied with Mathieu Crickboom and Maurice Raskin, Mr Octors was a former 1st prize winner at the 1941 Vieuxtemps International Violin Competition. Throughout his career, he served as Music Director of the Belgian National Orchestra, Royal […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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