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Montreal, February 14, 2023 – Francis Choinière, choral conductor and inventive director of Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes, Orchestre FILMharmonique & Ensemble Classico Moderne is the winner of the $125,000 Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer 2023-2024 for Collaborative Rising Artist.
Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the most important prize of its sort in Canada and one of many largest on this planet for a collaborative rising artist in classical music.
Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer honoursJean-Pierre Goyer and his contributions to music, arts and tradition in Montréal, Québec and Canada. Mr. Goyer was Chairman of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and Chairman of the Orchestre Métropolitain the place he employed Yannick Nézet-Séguin as rising conductor on the age of 25 years previous.
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Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the initiative of Mécénat Musica and Ensemble Caprice whose donors present the prize with $5,000 from every $25,000 donation.
Below Choinière’s management, $50,000 of the Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is getting used to create, for the artist’s cultural group Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes, a $1,000,000 Mécénat Musica in-perpetuity fund.
Because the begin of the pandemic March 2020, Francis Choinière has actively engaged within the cultural music scene to deliver again audiencesto live performance halls, producing over $2,500,000 in ticket gross sales throughout his ensembles. Throughout this identical interval, Francis carried out 43 performances in 10 totally different live performance halls throughout seven cities in Québec and Ontario together with Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Maison Symphonique, Grand Théâtre de Québec, and Roy Thompson Corridor.
About Francis Choinière
Francis Choinière is a flexible musician, lively as a choral and orchestral conductor, live performance producer, pianist, and composer. One in every of CBC’s “30 scorching Canadian classical musicians underneath 30” in 2020, Francis is the Creative Director and Conductor of the OPCM (Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes), performing giant choral and symphonic masterworks. Francis can also be Principal Conductor and Co-Creative Director of l’Orchestre FILMharmonique and Ensemble Classico Moderne, conducting in plenty of pan Canadian excursions.
Francis Choinière was assistant conductor on the Canadian Opera Firm (COC) for Bizet’s Carmen with conductor Jacques Lacombe in 2022. Francis was assistant and canopy conductor of the Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra underneath Alexander Shelley for season 2020-2021.
Francis can also be President and co-founder of GFN Productions, passionately growing new classical music audiences by presenting symphony orchestras with movie, together with Fantasia, Titanic, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings.
Francis Choinière & Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes (OPCM) (video)
Earlier Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer Collaborative Rising Artist recipients embody Philip Chiu, piano 2015-16; Marc Djokic, violon 2017-18; Lara Deutsch, flute 2019-20; and Nicolas Ellis, conductor 2021-22.
Mécénat Musica is a cultural program created by donors for donors. Mécénat Musica program makes a sustainable contribution to the well being of all by supporting music and tradition. Mécénat Musica program has created $81,000,000 of in perpetuity capital for 50 Québec cultural organizations with giant donations from greater than 600 Mécénat Musica people and households with funds administered by three companion neighborhood foundations: Basis of Better Montreal, the Jewish Neighborhood Basis of Montreal and Fondation Québec Philanthrope.
Mécénat Musica has launched a number of well being, music, and neighborhood initiatives since March 2020 together with Mécénat Musica: Mini-Concert events Santé (Prix Opus Événement musical de l’année 2020), Mini-Opéras Santé, Prix HEC Artistes, Mini-Galas, ArtChoral and Prix 3 Femmes – devoted to growing new modern operas by rising feminine and non-binary Canadian creators.
