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salsa baroque CD July 18, 2010
Salsa Baroque, the latest CD from Ensemble Caprice, will be released September 28, 2010. Click here to see the release announcement from Analekta.
 

July 3, 2010
Ensemble Caprice's new 2010-2011 Montreal Season has now been posted on the site.
Click here to download a PDF of the flier.

 

 


February 1, 2010
Ensemble Caprice wins its first Prix Opus Award!!

Last Sunday, January 31, 2010, Ensemble Caprice was honoured with the Prix Opus Award in the category Early Music Concert of the Year for our joint concert with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, The Splendours of France.

Prix Opus


January 21, 2010

Ensemble Caprice is floating on a cloud!
Having just been awarded the PRIX DU PUBLIC (Audience Appreciation Prize) of the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée, here we are once again receiving high honours.
We are very pleased to announce that Ensemble Caprice is now a Finalist for the GRAND PRIZE of the MONTREAL ARTS COUNCIL in the music category. What a fantastic beginning for 2010!

We wish to express our gratitude to the Conseil des arts de Montréal as well as to Mr. David Sela, the generous donour of the prize money accompanying this distinction.

For more information visit the Conseil des arts de Montréal website.

January 15, 2010
CAPRICE starts the year 2010 with honours !
Ensemble Caprice received the PRIX DU PUBLIC (Audience Appreciation Prize) of the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée! What recognition! Caprice is the audience's darling. 

Ensemble Caprice earned this honour with its Vivaldi and the Gypsies tour of 2008-2009 as part of the programme of the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée. We were chosen from among the 50 music, dance and theatre organisations who participated in this tour.

Many thanks, dear audience, dear friends, you are our inspiration!
We wish you a very good year 2010!

The musicians of Ensemble Caprice


December 28, 2009
Ensemble Caprice on the cover of La Scena Musicale!
Ensemble Caprice appears on the cover of the December/January issue of La Scena Musicale. Also in this issue is a 4 page article on Ensemble Caprice.

La scena cover

Click here to download a pdf of this issue. The cover is on page 19 of the pdf and the article starts on page 24.

Click here to visit La Scena's website.


December 15, 2009
Two more nominations for Ensemble Caprice!
Ensemble Caprice has been nominated in two different categories at the Prix Opus.

Opus

CONCERT OF THE YEAR - MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE
Le Faste de la France / The Splendour of France
Ensemble Caprice an the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal

CD OF THE YEAR - MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE
Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels (Analekta)


November 20, 2009
A second article for Caprice in the New York Times! 
Here you will find the New York Times review of the concert Caprice gave last Saturday at the Miller Theater on Broadway.

November 11, 2009
This coming Saturday, Ensemble Caprice will give a concert at the Miller Theater in New York City. In advance of this appearance, the New York Times in its Arts section last Sunday printed a full page article on the Ensemble! Click here to read the article.

October 22, 2009
ADISQ Nomination for Ensemble Caprice!
Ensemble Caprice has been nominated for an ADISQ award for their CD Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels.
The awards will be announced during the L'Autre Gala on Monday, October 26th.

 

October 6, 2009

Telemann and the Baroque Gypsies

The new Cd from Ensemble Caprice has just been released on the Analekta label!

You are listening to the Allegro from the Concerto in E minor TWV 52 by Georg Philipp Telemann.

July 30, 2009
Ensemble Caprice registered in the Placements Culture Matching Funds Programme of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
Dear friends of Ensemble Caprice,
We wish to give our heartfelt thanks to our donours for their aid in our financing campaign to create an endowment fund for Ensemble Caprice. Thanks to the Placements Culture Matching Funds Programme of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the joint efforts of our donours we have reached our goal!

June 21, 2009
The brochure for Ensemble Caprice's 2009-2010 Montreal Season is now available.
Click here to dowmload the pdf.

Two more nominations for Ensemble Caprice!

April 15, 2009
Ensemble Caprice has been nominated in two categories of the ECHO Klassik 2009 awards for the CD Vivaldi and the Baroque Gypsies on the Analekta label. The awards ceremony will be held in Dresden, Germany, on October 18, 2009.

ECHO Klassik 2009
ECHO Klassik 2009

Nominations for Vivaldi and the Baroque Gypsies (Analekta)

Category 5: Ensemble/Orchestra of the Year

Category 8: Classics Without Borders Prize

 

Ensemble Caprice Wins!

March 31, 2009
Ensemble Caprice celebrates its 20th year and receives its first JUNO Award! What wonderful news to launch our next 20 years with elans! 20 years have created and refined a signature, an original personality in early music, now recognized with the prestigious 2009 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance for our CD Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels on the Analekta label.

Juno Awards logo

Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels
Ensemble Caprice's latest CD on the Analekta label

Vivaldi Gloria