Camerata’s event this past week at Zwicker’s Gallery was a huge success – for those of you who couldn’t make it, check out these photos from the evening!…

World-renowned conductor Alberto Zedda is now acting as resident master of the Lunenburg Academy of Music’s Rossini Opera Academy, in addition to his role as artistic director of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. The 86-year-old Maestro is passionate about working with young singers, his love for music evident to anyone who interacts with him.

Read more in the Herald article here.…

Interesting read for all our mystery lovers and Strad fans in this month’s Vanity Fair!

Read more on the story of the infamous Lipinski Stradivarius here.…

The air is unmistakably colder, the leaves are turning to hues of red and gold: Fall is upon us, and with it comes the annual Dartmouth Community Concert Series! Now in its 57th year, the series boasts a vibrant lineup, with both local and out-of-town artists.

Our friends at Hello Dartmouth Blog have done a great write-up on the series – click here to read more.…

A great story in the Halifax Herald highlights an innovative project re-using church organs taking place in Yarmouth, NS!
Click here to read the full story.

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The 2014 National Music Festival took place in British Columbia from August 14-16 with fifty-three amateur musicians aged fourteen to twenty-eight from across the country competing in eight disciplines:  piano, strings, voice, woodwinds, brass, guitar, chamber groups and for the first time ever, music theatre.  The first place winners of each discipline competed for the Grand Award title and prize of $5,000 on Saturday, August 16 at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna, and the winner is tenor Marcel d’Entremont from Merigomish, Nova Scotia. …

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