Rick Mercer, Colm Feore among winners of the 2019 Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards GlobeArts
Few actors have taken on as many Canadian icons as Feore, whose most memorable performances include Glenn Gould in François Girard’s. The Stratford, Ont.-based performer is also one of the country’s best-known classical stage performers, having played 17 seasons at the Stratford Festival, tackling roles from Hamlet to King Lear.
Lorraine Pintal, who since 1992 has held the position of artistic director of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, where she has produced classics from Molière to Shakespeare and the plays of contemporary writers such as Michel Marc Bouchard and Évelyne de la Chenelière.Louise Bessette, a concert pianist who is “recognized worldwide as an outstanding performer and promoter of 20th- and 21st-century music.”Sandra Oh will receive the National Arts Centre Award.
The Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism for the Performing Arts goes to E. Noël Spinelli, a member of the Order of Canada from Lachine, Que., whose accomplishments include co-founding Concerts Lachine, which produces free classical-musical concerts, and Concerts Spinelli, a showcase for young musicians.
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