Catching a bit of cabin fever? Remember "Made in Canada" at Hazzards Corners in Madoc TOwnship with Nathan Bredeson and Michael Ibsen? Here's your chance to ...

The economic reality for musicians has not changed much since traveling minstrels wandered from town to town. From buskers in the subway to super star perfo...

I am reading posts on social media from artists all over the world telling us that their gigs, entire seasons, are cancelled. It is a heartbreaking thing fo...

Quiz: What is the instrumentation for a string quartet? a) 4 violins b) violin, viola, cello, double bass c) violin, violin, viola, cello d) any combination ...

While wandering the interwebs one day, I was intrigued to find that a common distinction between "classical" and "popular" music is that the former is notati...

https://www.intelligencer.ca/entertainment/local-arts/cultivating-creativity-milestone-year-for-quinte-society-for-chamber-music/ Cynthia Young Quinte Arts C...

Remember September? QSCM presented our first Classical Guitar event at Hazzard's Corners in Madoc Township: Made in Canada with Michael Ibsen and Nathan Br...

La Scene Musicale is Canada's premier classical music magazine, and Mezzo Soprano Annamaria Popescu one of Canada's most preminent internationally respected ...

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Benjamin Smith performs Leo Ornstein Sonata No. 4 in Stirling Ontario.

Until fairly recently, the impact that Clara Schumann had on the artists and composers of the Romantic period had disappeared into the mists of history. Her ...

Lets start with what chamber music is (and isn't). Essentially, chamber music describes music written for one or more performers. An ensemble that could fit ...

Hazzards Corners Church

I asked Michael Ibsen about the difference between music written for guitar by guitarists and and non-guitarists. Michael Ibsen: The guitar has so many littl...

Blogger Kaleigh Moore writes, ".... in recent months, as I’ve been looking for more ways to stay connected, I’ve been thinking more about how I can pair tho...

When I first asked Nathan Bredeson and Michael Ibsen about their fingernails I was being perhaps a bit flippant. As a pianist, nails are basically a nuisance...

Michael Ibsen on Sonata #1 in d minor which Nathan Bredeson wrote for him.... Nathan has already relayed the story of how the piece came about, I would just ...

I asked Nathan Bredeson about composers of guitar music.... Your program will be consisting of guitar works by living Canadian composers. As a pianist, I fin...

This is a question about Michael’s sonata. I find the Shostakovich influences intriguing, as he is one of my favourite composers and probably the last compos...