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The Christina and Louis Quilico Awards – 2025 edition

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Tuesday evening in the RBA members of the COC Ensemble Studio competed for the biannual Christina and Louis Quilico Awards.  These days every time I attend a singing competition, which I have been doing much less of, I ask myself why.  There are really three reasons:

  • The music to faffing about ratio is pretty low,
  • If one knows the contestants one has a pretty good idea what they are going to sing and one has probably heard it before,
  • The judges give no reasons for their decisions which are as often as not inscrutable.

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Quilico Awards 2023

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Last evening saw the first post-plague edition of the Christina and Louis Quilico Awards competed for by the singers of the COC Ensemble Studio. Six of Ensemble’s seven singers competed with Vladimir Soloviev and Brian Cho providing piano accompaniment.  It wasn’t the most thrilling Quilico Awards ever.  The judges; Perryn Leech, Carolyn Sproule and Steven Philcox probably had a pretty easy time of it.  So herewith how it came out.

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February 2023

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february2023Here’s what I’m looking forward to in February plus a few gigs I can’t make:

  • February 1st and 2nd the Chicago Symphony and Riccardo Muti are performing at Koerner Hall.  It’s a rare opportunity to hear a top orchestra in the wonderful Koerner acoustic but it’s probably sold out already.
  • On February 3rd the COC opens a run of Richard Strauss’ Salome with Ambur Braid in the title role and a stellar supporting cast.  Hard core Braid fans (and that includes me) know that this is a role she was born to sing.  It’s an Atom Egoyan production and he’ll likely tweak it but here’s a link to my review of the 2013 run.
  • February 6th sees the return of the Quilico Awards; a competition for the singers of the Ensemble Studio.  That’s at 5.30pm in the RBA and it’s free.

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