Making a Difference Through Music
Welcome to the JMO Insider newsletter- your quarterly publication that covers this season’s updates,
accomplishments, opportunities to donate and what to expect next from JMO.
2012/2013 Update:
For more than 34 years, Jeunesses Musicales Ontario (JMO) has toured some of Canada’s leading emerging
artists, performing concerts and operas in schools, community centres, and concert halls across the
province. In 2012-2013, our programmes reached 17,000 people of which 13,500 were children. Our artists
performed 75 concerts in 29 communities and covered more than 25,300 kilometers across Ontario.
JMO has expanded! General Manager and Artistic Advisor,
Vanessa J. Goymour is excited to announce the addition of
Christopher Boyle to the team as JMO’s Sales and
Communications Manager.
Vanessa J. Goymour
Anne Larlee (pianist) and
Simone Osbourne (soprano)
sharing a bow at the COC
Maureen Forrester
(1930-2010)
What we’ve been up to:
Maureen Forrester Award Tour
In September, JMO hosted the launch of the Maureen
Forrester Award Tour, at Atelier Rosemarie Umetsu.
This prize has been named to honour one of our
greatest alumni, Canadian contralto Maureen
Forrester. Simone Osborne, soprano and the
inaugural winner of the prize, along with her duo
partner Anne Larlee, performed to an enthusiastic
crowd of Toronto’s who’s who! One of the highlights of
the evening was the duo’s performance of
Birefringence, one of two new commissions by the
Canadian composer Brian Current (the second entitled
Extreme Positions). Jeunesses Musicales and Canadian
Art Song Project created a partnership to commission
and tour new works for voice by Canadian composers
using Canadian text.
Christopher Boyle
Brian Current
Maureen Forrester’s accomplishments and international influence are remarkable. Her
passage through Jeunesses Musicales of Canada in 1953-54, at the dawn of her career,
foretold of an extraordinary artist. She went on to work alongside some of the most
illustrious conductors in the world, including Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan,
and James Levine, lighting up stages on all five continents. Maureen Forrester remained
faithful to her roots at JMC, serving as national president from 1972 to 1975. She is the
perfect ambassador to infuse an aura of excellence into the Tour and to bring recognition to today’s great Canadian lyrical voices.