Created by the Conseil québécois de la Musique, the Opus Gala underlines the excellence of concert music in Québec in its various repertories. Québec has many talented musicians and it is proved again by the quality of the 2011-2012 winners. The Gala not only aims to pay homage to Québec musicians, but also to increase public awareness and interest in concert music.
The top prize-winner was Quebec Opera's production of The Tempest co-produced with The Metropolitan Opera and Wiener Staatsoper. It won Concert of the Year – Quebec City and Musical Event of the Year. Quebec Opera's Grégoire Legendre was named Artistic Director of the Year.
Louise Bessette : 30 years of career was named the Concert of the Year – Montreal, and also picked up the award for Concert of the Year – Modern and Contemporary Music.
THE LIST OF WINNERS – YEAR 16, season 2011-2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MONTREAL
Louise Bessette : 30 years of career, Société de Musique contemporaine du Québec in collaboration with the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, March 31 2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – QUEBEC CITY
The Tempest, co-production : The Metropolitan Opera (New York), Quebec Opera Festival, Vienna Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), coll. Ex Machina, July 26, 28, 30 and August 1, 2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – REGIONS
Marc-André Hamelin dazzles in Busoni, Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, April 6, 2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE, AND CLASSICAL MUSIC
Inaugural concert of the Bourgie Hall in the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Arte Musica Foundation, September 28, 2011
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – ROMANTIC, POST-ROMANTIC, AND IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC
Philippe Sly and Michael McMahon in recital, Philippe Sly, bass-baritone and Michael McMahon, piano, Société d’Art vocal de Montréal, May 21, 2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Louise Bessette : 30 years of career, Société de Musique contemporaine du Québec in collaboration with the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, March 31, 2012
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – NEW AND ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC
AKOUSMA 8 : sens_action : France Jobin, Réseaux des Arts médiatiques, October 14, 2011
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – JAZZ
Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble : 4+2, Les Productions Art and Soul, October 14, 2011
CONCERT OF THE YEAR – WORD MUSIC
Convivencia, Fidelio Musique/Art et musique La Mandragore, October 16 and 31, 2011
NEW WORK OF THE YEAR
Atacama : Symphony no 3, Tim Brady, Atacama !, Bradyworks and VivaVoce, June 12, 2012
PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR – YOUTH
Les aventures fantastiques de Flonflon, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, November 26, 2011
RECORDINGS
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE, AND CLASSICAL MUSIC
William Lawes – The Royall Consorts, Les Voix Humaines, ATMA Classique
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – ROMANTIC, POST-ROMANTIC, AND IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC
Bruckner 4, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre Métropolitain, ATMA Classique
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Denys Bouliane, Denis Gougeau, John Rea, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt, ATMA Classique
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – ACTUAL AND ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC
Palimpsestes, Robert Normandeau, emprEintes DIGITAles
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – JAZZ
Autour de Bill Evans, Donato, Bourassa, Lozano, Tanguay, Effendi Records
RECORDING OF THE YEAR – WORLD MUSIC
Lieux imaginés, Cordâme, Malasartes musique, DAME
WRITTEN WORK
ARTICLE OF THE YEAR
« Richard Wagner, Louis de Fourcaud and a path for French opera in the 1880s », Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis, Act : Zeitshrift für Musik und Performance, no 3, 2012
SPECIAL PRIZES
TRIBUTE
François Morel, composer
COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
Simon Bertrand
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
Stéphane Tétreault, cellist
SPECIALIZED PRESENTER OF THE YEAR
Fondation Arte Musica, inaugural season
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRESENTER OF THE YEAR
Corporation culturelle de Shawinigan
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Grégoire Legendre, Quebec Opera and Quebec Opera Festival
MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Quebec Opera Festival – The Tempest
PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Lorraine Desmarais, jazz pianist
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
Les Violons du Roy
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