70 bright candles for our Grande Dame of piano, Janina Fialkowska!
For this special event, Agence Station Bleue pays a vibrant tribute to this internationally renowned artist. Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska has given recitals on the world’s greatest stages and concerts with prestigious orchestras. For over 40 years, she continues to enchant audiences always with great passion! Internationally acclaimed by critics, Janina Fialkowska attracts a huge following on digital platforms, with over 65 million streams. Her autobiography A Note in Time will be published on September 30, 2021, by Novum Publishing, London (UK).
Her refreshing musical integrity and approach as well as her unique sound, make her “one of the great ladies of the piano” (Frankfurter Allgemeine).
Janina will return in winter/spring of 2022 for a tour of Canada and the United States as well as Spring 2023.
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Conductor Nicolas Ellis wins $125,000 Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer 2021-2022
Canadian conductor Nicolas Ellis, Artistic Director & Founder of Orchestre de l’Agora and Artistic Partner to the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is the winner of the $125,000 Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer 2021-2022 for Collaborative Emerging Artist.
Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the biggest prize in Canada and one of the largest in the world for a collaborative emerging artist in classical music. Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer honours Jean-Pierre Goyer and his contributions to music, arts and culture in Montréal, Québec and Canada. Mr. Goyer was Chairman of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and Chairman of the Orchestre Métropolitain where he hired Yannick Nézet- Séguin as emerging conductor at the age of 25 years old.
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Dominique Fils-Aimé latest album's Three Little Words nominated for Polaris Music Prize!
Her latest release Three Little Words has been nominated for the Polaris 2021 longlist as one of the best Canadian albums of the year.
Following 2018’s blues tinted Nameless and 2019’s jazz-inflected and Juno Award winning Stay Tuned!, singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé completes her trilogy of albums exploring the palette of African-American musical traditions, this time leaning heavily on soul music with the February 2021 release of her much anticipated record Three Little Words.
Upon its release Three Little Words peaked to #1 in Quebec and #2 in Canada setting the stage for a successful tour in Quebec over the next few months followed by Europe and the rest of Canada later this year.
20 YEARS
Founded by Annick-Patricia Carrière and Gabriel Paré in 2000, Agence Station Bleue is one of the most recognized performing arts agencies in Canada. Its growing and ongoing presence in national and international performing arts sectors, its twenty years of expertise in the promotion and representation of artists, as well as its keen understanding of the challenges in this artistic field, make it an essential partner.