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ARC
Artists of The Royal Conservatory
ARC is the institution’s ensemble-inresidence
and an international ambassador
for Canada’s largest arts organization.
It collaborates with a range of artists, most
recently the pianist Leon Fleisher,
tenor Richard Margison and the novelist
Yann Martel.
The ensemble plays a leading role in
unearthing repertoire ignored because of
political changes or shifts in musical
fashion, particularly works that were lost
because of the upheavals of the Second
World War. ARC has received accolades from
most of the world’s major music journals
and magazines. Julian Haylock in The Strad
(June, 2008) wrote of ARC’s recording of
works by Julius Röntgen: “Music of this
quality cries out for exemplary musicianship
and the ARC Ensemble sets the skin
rippling at every turn with its ear-tingling
corporate intonation and magical phrasing,
caught to perfection by award-winning
producer David Frost.”
ARC’s two previous recordings were both
nominated for Grammy Awards ® in the category
of Best Chamber Music Performance.
They are regularly played on networks around
the world, and ARC’s concerts have been
broadcast on National Public Radio in the
U.S., and on public radio in Europe, Poland
and Hungary.
ARC has become one of Canada’s leading
cultural exports, raising international
awareness of the Glenn Gould School’s superb
faculty and Canada’s rich musical life.
The Ensemble’s concerts are meticulously
researched and assembled with rich supporting
materials. They are often augmented
with lectures on the life and context of the
featured composers. Its acclaimed series
Music in Exile, which explores the music of
composers whose lives and careers were
changed forever by the Holocaust and World
War II, has been presented to huge critical
acclaim in New York, London, Budapest,
and Toronto, and has led to concerts at
the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
with upcoming performances in Europe and
Israel. James Conlon is ARC’s Honorary
Chairman. The ensemble’s Artistic Director
is the guitarist Simon Wynberg.
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