Tectonics 2025 Artist Profile
She studied composition and electronics at the Conservatorio di Bologna, Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and IRCAM, and holds ...
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The 10 best pieces of music by Ravel
Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed ...
Music educator Alain Nonat helped put young Canadian opera singers on global stages
A promising tenor in his youth, Nonat devoted his life to championing budding vocalists, founding Montreal’s Théâtre ...
After 138 years, Black American composer Edmond Dédé gets his flowers
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained unheard until now.
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With her National Concert Hall programme, the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught is on a mission to fill gaps in the way singers are ...
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After 138 years, a Black composer’s magnum opus finds a stage
Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...
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After 138 years, Black American composer Edmond Dédé gets his flowers
In 1855, funds raised by friends and supporters in New Orleans allowed Dédé to move to Paris, where he audited classes at the Conservatoire de Musique, took private lessons and eventually ...
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After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage in New Orleans
Now, 138 years after it was composed, Morgiane is being produced in a concert setting. Two companies, OperaCréole and Opera ...
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Forgotten for 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage
Dédé audited classes at the Paris Conservatoire and later served as an accompanist and composer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in southwestern France. He conducted in the city's popular ...