Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Lauréats les Prix Opus 2012 - Opus Music Awards - winners


The 15th gala of the Prix Opus took place recently at the Salle Bourgie of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. The ceremony also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Conseil québécois de la musique.

28 awards were given out to recognize concert music during the past year.

Concert of the Year winners included Molinari Quartet for their Montreal performance of the late quartets of Shostakovich, and the New Orford Quartet for both the Regional category and Classical, Romantic, Post-Romantic, Impressionistic.

Disc of the Year winners included Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain's recording of La tragédie de Salomé, and Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal led by Christopher Jackson performing Orlando di Lasso's motet Lagrime di San Pietro.

Recently departed I Musici musical director Yuli Turovsky was honoured with a special Prix Hommage for Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Complete list of winners for the 15th Prix Opus

CONCERTS

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MONTRÉAL
Les quatre derniers quatuors de Chostakovitch, Quatuor Molinari, 26 novembre 2010

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – QUÉBEC
Le Rossignol et autres fables d’Igor Stravinsky, Festival d’opéra de Québec, 2 août 2011

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – REGIONAL
Le Nouveau Quatuor Orford, Centre d’arts Orford, 17 juillet 2011

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE
L’art de François Couperin, Clavecin en concert, 7 novembre 2010

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC, POSTROMANTIC, IMPRESSIONNISTIC
Le Nouveau Quatuor Orford, Centre d’arts Orford, 17 juillet 2011

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MODERN, CONTERMPORARY MUSIC
Concert hommage à Xenakis, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, 6 octobre 2010

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – CURRENT, ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC
Urnos, La Nef, Claire Gignac, André Hamel, Espaces sonores illimités, Festival MNM, Le Vivier, 22 février 2011

CONCERT OF THE YEAR – JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC
Lettingo : The Music and Influence of Ornette Coleman, Gary Schwartz, 17 janvier 2011

CREATION OF THE YEAR
Mutation, Denis Gougeon, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Concert du printemps, 20 avril 2011

PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR - YOUNG PEOPLE'S
On n’est jamais trop classique, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, 24 février 2011

DISCS

DISC OF THE YEAR – MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE, CLASSICAL
Orlando di Lasso - Lagrime di San Pietro, Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson, ATMA Classique

DISC OF THE YEAR – ROMANTIC, POSTROMANTIC, IMPRESSIONNISTIC
La tragédie de Salomé, F. Schmitt, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre Métropolitain, ATMA Classique

DISC OF THE YEAR – MODERN, CONTERMPORARY MUSIC
Serge Arcuri - Migrations, Louise Bessette, Jonathan Crow, Mark Fewer, Robert Cram, Douglas McNabney, Yegor Dyachkov, Simon Aldrich, ATMA Classique

DISC OF THE YEAR – CURRENT, ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC
Quelques reflets, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, empreintes DIGITALes

DISC OF THE YEAR – JAZZ
New Angle, Samuel Blais, Effendi Records

DISC OF THE YEAR – WORLD MUSIC
Tango boréal, Denis Plante, David Jacques, Ian Simpson, ATMA Classique

PUBLICATION

BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez - Writings and Compositions, Jonathan Goldman, Cambridge

ARTICLE OF THE YEAR
« La pratique de l’hommage musical chez Debussy », Danick Trottier, Cahiers Debussy, Centre de documentation Claude Debussy, no 34, 2010, p. 53-80

SPECIAL PRIZES

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Yuli Turovsky

COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
Cléo Palacio-Quintin

DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
Vincent Lauzer

SPECIALIST PRESENTER OF THE YEAR
Concerts aux Îles du Bic

MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRESENTER OF THE YEAR
Théâtre Centennial

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Jean-François Rivest – Centre d’arts Orford

MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Festival de Lanaudière, été 2011

PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Quasar, quatuor de saxophones

RAYONNEMENT À L’ÉTRANGER
Julie Boulianne

RECONNAISSANCE À UN FACTEUR D’INSTRUMENTS
Thomas Wilder

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