Canadian Works
Canadian Works
Voice 2022: Michael Lafferty, tenor
Winner of the André Bachand Prize for the Best performance of a Canadian work
The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) aims to highlight Canadian repertoire in offering the André Bachand Prize for the best performance of a Canadian work.
Voice 2025 competitors who choose to include a work of their choice by a Canadian composer in their programme for the First Round (Aria and Art Song stages or Art Song Prize Final) will be eligible for the André Bachand Prize for the best interpretation of a Canadian work, valued at $2,500, offered in partnership with Claudette Hould.
Those who choose to perform an aria from an opera by a Canadian composer, written after 1975, will also be eligible for the Prize for the best performance of a contemporary aria.
Discover the Canadian repertoire to be presented in the First Round of the Voice 2025 edition.
- Julien Bilodeau
La colombe
Chanhee Cho
Daniel Noyola
Pete Thanapat
Valentin Ruckebier
Mon souverain
Ihor Mostovoi
- Kendra Harder
Take It to Tumblr
Sophie Naubert
- Jaap Nico Hamburger
How Full of Colour it Was
Karoline Podolak
How Full of Lightness We Were
Hedvig Haugerud
- Airat Ichmouratov
Air de Josianne
Jingjing Xu
- Calixa Lavallée
L’absence
Nikolaï Zemlianskikh
- Cecilia Livingston
I’m Awake
Fanny Soyer
Kalypso
Ariane Cossette
In offering the André Bachand Prize for the best performance of a Canadian work, the CMIM aims to:
- Encourage competitors to explore the richness of Canadian repertoire.
- Promote the discovery, appreciation, and recognition of Canadian composers.
- Contribute to making this repertoire better known to the public, in Montreal and internationally, through live performances and broadcasts of the CMIM events.
- Highlight contemporary Canadian arias and songs in order to showcase the vitality and diversity of musical creation in Canada, while stimulating interest in new music and encouraging the commissioning of new works.
- Make Voice 2025 competitors international ambassadors for Canadian repertoire, through their participation in the CMIM and by incorporating these works into their future performances.
