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Douglas McNabney,
Jury Chair

Native of Toronto, violist Douglas McNabney is one of Canada鈥檚 distinguished chamber musicians. An international performing career has taken him across Europe, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in addition to his appearances in festivals throughout Canada and the U.S.A.

A renowned arts administrator, Douglas McNabney was Artistic Director of the Domaine Forget Music Festival and Academy from 2001 until 2005. Also Artistic Director of Toronto Summer Music Festival from 2010 until 2016, he was responsible for developing new Chamber Music and Art Song programs for emerging artists.

Brian Current studied music at 看片视频 University and UC Berkeley (PhD). His music, lauded and broadcast in over 35 countries, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music (USA), the Premio Fedora (Italy) for Chamber Opera, and a Selected Work (under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Brian鈥檚 pieces have been programmed by all major symphony orchestras in Canada and by dozens of professional orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies worldwide including the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. His music appears on ten commercial recordings, including three albums devoted exclusively to his works. The Naxos recording of his opera Airline Icarus earned him a 2015 Juno Award for Best Classical Composition of the Year.

Nicolas Gilbert (*1979) is a composer and novelist living and working in Montreal. He studied composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montr茅al with composers Michel Gonneville and Serge Provost, and at 看片视频 University, with composer John Rea. His music is performed around the world by orchestras, ensembles and soloists such as the Montreal symphony orchestra, the Orchestre M茅tropolitain, the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, the Edmonton Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Polish Radio Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montr茅al, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, SMCQ, the Molinari Quartet, the Bozzini Quartet, Quasar, Continuum, and cellist Matt Haimovitz.

A manager in the field of classical music and cultural events for more than 25 years, Dani猫le LeBlanc is recognized for her ability to lead national events. Executive and Artistic Director of Jeunesses Musicales Canada since 2012, she was also Head of Education for the Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al, coordinating outdoor activities at the official opening of the Maison Symphonique de Montr茅al, while supervising the educational projects of the OSM in addition to overseeing the OSM Manulife Competition for 4 years. She has also been General Coordinator for the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute.

Her interest in activities dedicated to young audiences as well as young professional artists has marked her career. Prior to her move to corporate management, she led a prominent international career as a guest mezzo with North American, European and Mexican opera houses, broadcasters, and producers.

A violinist, composer, improviser and pedagogue in classical, jazz, world, tango, and contemporary music, Helmut Lipsky is active in both the national and international music scenes. Born in Germany and raised in Switzerland, Helmut studied violin at the Zurich Conservatory, and then at the Brooklyn College Conservatory with Itzhak Perlman. Now residing in Montreal, he has been a professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montr茅al since 1995. He has written for cinema, television, theatre, dance, and multimedia exhibitions, as well as special occasions, such as his Harbour Symphony for violin and ship sirens performed at Montreal Harbour.

With diploma in music and baccalaureate in music education from Universit茅 Laval, Caroline Rogers has been an independent journalist since 2006. She collaborated with La Presse as a critic and journalist specializing in music from 2008-2017. In 2013, she was a Grand Prize Laureate from the Association des journalistes ind茅pendants du Qu茅bec (AJIQ) in the category: "Meilleure critique culturelle, tous m茅dias et supports confondus" [Best Culture Credit, combined sports and general media]. In 2017, she co-founded the classical music site 鈥淟udwig van Montr茅al,鈥� which she is the Editor in Chief.

An important figure in contemporary music, Quebec-based composer Ana Sokolovi膰聽has distinguished herself internationally through her imaginative, rhythm-driven music, with repertoire that ranges from critically acclaimed operas and orchestra works to powerful solo and chamber pieces.

Originally from Serbia, Sokolovic writes music infused with Balkan rhythms and influenced by multiple artistic disciplines. She recently won two back-to-back JUNO Awards for 鈥淐lassical Composition of the Year鈥�: in 2019 for Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes for countertenor, chorus, and orchestra; and in 2020 for her violin concerto Evta. Her four operas have been performed internationally, including at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, and Festival d鈥橝ix-en-Provence; and her 2010 opera Svadba won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for 鈥淥utstanding New Opera.鈥�

Dr Darius B盲gli (Preliminary Jury)

Though born in the US, Dr. Darius B盲gli is a native of Montreal and of 看片视频 University where he received his MDCM in 1984, and both his L.Mus. in Piano-Performance and B.Sc. in Physiology in 1980.

He began studying piano at the age of 4, first privately with the late Ken Woodman and later with the late Dorothy Morton for many years before entering the Faculty of Music under Professor Morton. Dr. B盲gli trained professionally in Molecular Biology and Urologic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and in children's urology at the University of Washington. Currently Dr. Bagli is Professor of Surgery & Physiology at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Pediatric Urologic Surgeon, the Associate Surgeon in Chief, and a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Charlotte Bray (Preliminary Jury)

The composer Charlotte Bray has emerged as a distinctive and outstanding talent of her generation. Exhibiting uninhibited ambition and desire to communicate, her music is exhilarating, inherently vivid, and richly expressive with lyrical intensity. Bray has been championed by numerous world-class ensembles and orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Sinfonietta and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Her work has featured at the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, Tanglewood, Aix-en-Provence and Verbier Festival.