<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3kM4u1HeBPmMGLPFjDQEoY&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Winners of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014 Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition, Montreal based Infusion Baroque has recorded a much-anticipated debut CD featuring trio sonatas by CPE Bach. Their performances have been described as “dynamic and alive” with a stage presence that is “poised and elegant.”

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3dgjZyFAUXyzW0i7IeJ9uz&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>There Was a Time by Nova Scotia-born composer Cy Giacomin uses the memorable text from Ecclesiastes 3 that somehow sums up the "interesting times" during which this music was written. Times of economic insecurity, spiritual longing, terrorism, and natural disasters have intertwined with incredible advances in technology and medicine, peace in most of the world, an awakening in environmental awareness, and imagined connectedness through social media. Through all the interesting times - past, present, future - music sustains us. 

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:6RG7kRo6XkGaYcILnpREKo&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Some of the top classical musicians from the Canadian province of New Brunswick have come together to record a collection of pieces by Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827). The recording features works for string quartet, cello and piano.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:2x8wp7eEysFh6fo7Zwyg0U&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>To mark the 100th anniversary of Canada’s entry into the First World War in 1914, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra embarked on a journey of remembrance through music and reflection.International concert pianist Roger Lord has been described by The China Daily as "the Piano Prince of Canada." This recording features twenty-one "treasures," short pieces that Lord has uncovered throughout his many travels in China.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:18ZrdsOIGneKLficg0T7Wz&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Ex Tempore is the debut album from the Nova Scotia-based Charke-Cormier duo. Derek Charke and Eugene Cormier have curated a charming program that includes an original composition by Charke (Ex Tempore), and arrangements of Handel and Peter Maxwell Davies by Cormier paired with works by Debussy, Handel and Brazilian-Canadian composer Celso Machado. 

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:706jB8KYaMxVVTGcjlr515&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>ROBERT deMAINE is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note”. He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. In 2012 he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. DeMaine is the cellist of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet as well as the newly formed Dicterow-deMaine-Biegel Trio.A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as principal cello for over a decade. DeMaine has also served as a guest principal cello of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway.ROBERT deMAINE is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note”. He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. In 2012 he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello. DeMaine is the cellist of the highly acclaimed Ehnes String Quartet as well as the newly formed Dicterow-deMaine-Biegel Trio.A first-prize winner in many national and international competitions, deMaine was the first cellist ever to win the grand prize at San Francisco’s Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. As soloist, he has collaborated with many distinguished conductors, including Neeme Järvi, Peter Oundjian, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin, and has performed nearly all the major cello concertos with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he served as principal cello for over a decade. DeMaine has also served as a guest principal cello of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3jzTQNVcq3PujiwDwggdvl&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Even following invitations to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Auditorium Paganini in Parma, Italy, the invitation to perform and record in in Beijing, China was awe inspiring. This album, recorded at China Central Radio Station, won an “East Coast Music Award” for “Classical Recording of the Year” in 2008.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:6LphSNlfUynEMHYnAaLVyh&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Savour the creative talent heard through these hand picked selections of Christine Walevska, cellist extroadinaire, who continues to touch her audiences worldwide with her timeless, polished, eloquent, sensuous, engaging and dramatic musicality.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:706jB8KYaMxVVTGcjlr515&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><strong>AVAILABLE OCTOBER 26</strong><strong>PREORDER NOW </strong>Robert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note". He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist and chamber musician. He is currently Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and is in demand around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and clinician. This recording is a collaboration with New York conductor Joel Eric Suben and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra recorded at Reduta Conceret Hall in Olomuc, Czech Republic.It was in this spirit of personalized composition that Haydn wrote his Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb:1, for the Esterházy family. The piece was unknown to modern audiences until 1961, when a copy of the score was uncovered. Since that time, it has become a staple of the cello repertoire, championed by many of the world’s greatest cellists. Robert deMaine adds his name to that list with this lush recording. Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 was written for the Esterházy orchestra’s principal cellist Antonín Kraft, who is said to have had a beautiful singing tone, expressive phrasing, and an explosive technique, especially in the cello’s upper register. All of this is realized once again in this fresh performance from Robert deMaine.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:6RG7kRo6XkGaYcILnpREKo&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>“Hidden Treasures” (June 1992), the debut CD from the Saint John String Quartet, was touted by Bob Kerr of CBC Vancouver’s “Off The Record“ as “one of the most satisfying and pleasurable CDs to appear this year.”

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3jzTQNVcq3PujiwDwggdvl&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>OH Canada: A Young 150!, is the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra’s (NBYO) celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. The NBYO’s celebration pays tribute to Confederation and the accomplishments of a great history, but also to a future to be built from all the genius, optimism and hope of our youth.The centrepiece of the celebration is a song commissioned by
the NBYO, for orchestra, soloist and choir, by Canadian composer Howard Shore, winner of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and four Grammy Awards, and one of the most celebrated composers in the world. The song ‘Sea to Sea’ is performed by
the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra with internationally renowned soprano Measha Brueggergosman and a special Canada 150 Choir.Oh Canada : jeune de 150 ans est la célébration du 150e anniversaire du Canada de l’Orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau‐Brunswick
(OJNB). Cette célébration rend hommage à la Confédération et aux réalisations d’une merveilleuse histoire, ainsi qu’à un avenir qui sera façonné par l’ingéniosité, l’optimisme et l’espoir de nos jeunes. La pièce maîtresse de la célébration est une chanson commandée par l’OJNB pour orchestre, soliste et chorale. Elle a été composée par le Canadien Howard Shore, lauréat de trois Academy Awards, trois Golden Globes et quatre prix Grammy, et l’un des compositeurs les plus célébrés au monde. La pièce « D’un océan à l’autre » est présentée par l’Orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau‐Brunswick, Measha Brueggergosman, soprano de renommée internationale, ainsi qu’une chorale spéciale en l’honneur du 150e du Canada.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3y2XoOpasA4Yuz8luvzQys&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Described as “genre-bending” by the National Post, and “intrepid” by the Globe and Mail, Mark Fewer has performed around the world to critical acclaim in virtually every role asked of a violinist, from the early baroque to the avant-garde.As one of today’s busiest musicians in the field of Early Music, Hank Knox is hailed internationally for his “colorful, kinetic performances” (AllMusic Guide) which “abound in vitality” (Early Music America).

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3jzTQNVcq3PujiwDwggdvl&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>To mark the 100th anniversary of Canada’s entry into the First World War in 1914, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra embarked on a journey of remembrance through music and reflection.Keeping Faith is the theme for this commemoration tour, with special 2014-2015 performances in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, throughout New Brunswick and in our nation’s capital, for the official opening of the Canadian War Museum’s new permanent exhibition, The Home Front, 1917.Our “Keeping Faith” visual wordmark, presented in English, French, German and Czech, was commissioned by the NBYO to honour and respect the countries and cultures visited on the commemoration tour.As the centerpiece of the Commemoration Tour, the NBYO commissioned an orchestral work, “A Dream of Dawn,” by Canadian composer Kevin Lau. One of Canada's forefront emerging composers, Kevin Lau, whose music has been commissioned by numerous orchestras across Canada, including an original full-length score for the National Ballet of Canada, currently serves as Affiliate Composer of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.Lau describes the commission as a grateful commemoration of a generation who served and sacrificed. "My intention", said Lau, "is to compliment the reflections of those pondering war in all its paradoxical facets, to recognize the horrors of human conflict while affirming our profound search for harmony in ourselves and abroad”.What better path than by harnessing the genius, hope and promise of our youth, to build the world of which their century-old counterparts could only dream – a dream of dawn.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3kM4u1HeBPmMGLPFjDQEoY&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Montreal-based Infusion Baroque draws new audiences to early music by integrating chamber music performance with other artistic media. The ensemble has performed across Canada and the United States. Their debut album 1747: C.P.E. Bach was released in 2017 and reached #3 on iTunes Canada Classical chart. Infusion Baroque's second album is the debut recording of six rare quintets by Georg Anton Kreüsser. Joyful and elegant, these pieces for flute, violin, viola, cello, and basso continuo feature the instruments engaged in a lively musical conversation that are sure to delight and charm listeners. <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1771" src="http://leaf-music.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/CCFA_RGB_colour_e-1024x188.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="80" /><em>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1770" src="http://leaf-music.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FACTORCANADA.png" alt="" width="1205" height="200" /></p>

<h3><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:50kOqoy3XQ2Ap10un8Z6Vc&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" data-mce-fragment="1"></iframe></h3> <h3></h3>  The debut album of soprano Maureen Batt features a rare recording of Schubert’s “Op. 52 Lady of the Lake” song cycle and a newly commissioned work on the same epic Walter Scott poem by Nova Scotia’s Fiona Ryan.This album received a Nova Scotia Music Award nomination for <strong>2017 Classical Recording of the Year</strong>, and East Coast Music Award nominations for <strong>2018 Classical Composition of the Year </strong>and <strong>2018 Classical Recording of the Year.</strong>

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:6mfQDK3TW5yS1S0otstA41&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Danor Quinteros studied at Zürich School of Arts (Prof. Homero Francesch) and at Hochschule für Musik Köln (Prof. Jacob Leuschner). He has given recitals throughout his native Chile as well as in Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Spain. He also participated in numerous Masterclasses around the world with Jaques Rouvier, Jun Kanno, Robert Mcdonald, and Andrea Lucchesini.He has won prizes at the Ile de France International Competition, chilean national piano competitions and the International Claudio Arrau Competition.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:2x8wp7eEysFh6fo7Zwyg0U&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Crowned as “The piano prince of Canada” by the China Daily, Roger Lord has enjoyed worldwide success. After performances for over 50 world leaders, concerts in 5 continents, and a performance at the 1988 Olympics, it is no surprise that Lord received the “Excellence Award” in Music from the NB Arts Council in Canada. This album received an East Coast Music Award nomination for “Classical Recording of the Year” in 2015.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:73usTDRtdTSYdSBXjcWQK9&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>After many years of performing as a concert pianist, working as the artistic director for the Barachois Summer Music Series and collaborating on a variety of critically acclaimed musical projects across Canada, Julien Leblanc has released his first solo album, a piano recording entitled Mélancolies.The album is a compilation of French compositions that became a staple of Leblanc’s repertoire after he discovered them early on in his career. The composers included in this recorded collection — Franck, Poulenc and Dutilleux — all hail from France and their combined output stretches from the mid-nineteenth century to Dutilleux’s last work which was published in 2009 when he was ninety-three.Francis Poulenc was a less avant-garde contemporary of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau and so, his work is accessible but inventive and fresh. Poulenc’s “Fifteen Improvisations” are known for their charming and buoyant character as well as for the technical artistry of the composer’s pedalling.Henri Dutilleux’s work was more heavily influenced by his environmental context when he was composing music just after World War Two. The included piece by Dutilleux, “Sonata for piano”, denotes the turbulence, anguish and anxiety that pervaded during that period through his use of contrast — he juxtaposes rhythmic and jagged sections with sensual, dreamlike and ethereal parts.Composing fifty years before Dutilleux and Poulenc, César Franck‘s “Prélude, choral et fugue” is religious and takes a cyclic form. In its closing coda, Franck masterfully superimposes the previous sections of his composition. The character of the work is philosophical and contemplative yet at the same time passionate and fervid.Julien Leblanc connects these differing French compositions through his acute sensibilities and expressive piano playing. He fuses the works together with a consistent expression of melancholy which he identifies in each work.Leblanc writes of this feeling in the notes of his album when he says ”A sense of melancholy pervades the pieces presented in this recording and I am especially attached to them. Be it dreamlike or loving, resigned or fatalistic, or caused by the absence of a loved one, this feeling of melancholy runs through these four pieces. As a shadow in the light, it contrasts with expressions of joy and happiness, intensifying them in the process. I present this recording to you humbly and with all my heart.”

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:6RG7kRo6XkGaYcILnpREKo&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>The award-winning Saint John String Quartet has performed together for nearly 30 years, playing over 125 concerts a year throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. Montage is the ensemble's fifth album, and follows the 2012 JUNO-nominated recording of Jacques Hétu's String Quartet No. 2. Montage highlights the group's passion for new, innovative Canadian music, with the includsion of seven previously unrecorded works.Montage showcases works by composers with roots in the maritime provinces, and was recorded in Rothesay, New Brunswick in 2014 in a beautiful church near the Saint John River. The album features works by Anthony Genge, Eldon Rathburn, Michael Miller, Richard Kidd, Martin Kutnowski and Talivaldis Kenins.

<iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:3jzTQNVcq3PujiwDwggdvl&size=detail&theme=light" width="300" height="56" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>In July 2011 the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra competed with orchestras from around the globe in the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in Vienna, Austria. Not only did they win first place in the orchestra category, but they also received the honorable ranking of "outstanding performance" from the international panel of judges. NBYO musicians and conductor, Maestro Antonio Delgado, met their performance expectations, and were globally recognized for the culmination of a year of hard work and preparation. 'Musikfreunde,' translated as "friends of music," was the theme for the NBYO 2011 Vienna tour, which makes it a suiting title for this recording of the 2011 tour and competition repertoire. The NBYO is proud to release its newest recording- Musikfreunde, Friends of Music.