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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