The Conseil québécois de la musique has announced the finalists for the 26e Opus awards gala which will take place on February 5 at the Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts after two years in virtual.
There are around thirty categories (ranging from jazz to classical and traditional music) in which Charles-Richard Hamelin, the concert Transfiguration by Stéphane Tétreault and Valérie Milot, the album Preludes and Solitudes by violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, Who is grumbling by Yannick Rieu, or the production for young audiences Koperkus.
Among the concerts of the year in the running, we find Tribute to R. Murray Schafer of the Molinari Quartet, Seasons of the Americas of the Violins du Roy, Beethoven’s triumphant ninth symphony of the OSM under the direction of Rafael Payare as well as Epic Wagner of the Orchester Métropolitain with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Jocelyn Lebeau will host the ceremony, which will take place on February 5 in Bourgie Hall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Nothing less than 28 prizes will be awarded, not counting two mentions of excellence.
“This year, despite the presence of the pandemic, music has been able to reach its audience and find it in theaters, both in Quebec and abroad,” rejoices the Quebec Music Council in its press release.