Mezzo-Soprano Kristin Hoff and pianist Meagan Milatz have been introduced because the winners of the 2025-2028 Mécénat Musica: Prix Goyer for Collaborative Rising Artist. The prize comes with a handbag of $125,000 for every artist, totalling $250,000.
For collaborative rising artists, the Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the most important prize in Canada, and counts as one of many largest on the planet of classical music. The award is known as after the late Jean-Pierre Goyer, a former federal cupboard minister, and chairman of the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
He was additionally chairman of the Orchestre Métropolitain, and accountable for hiring a 25 year-old rising conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin as its conductor.
Earlier recipients of the Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer Collaborative Rising Artist recipients embody Francis Choinière, choral conductor 2023-24; Nicolas Ellis, conductor 2021-22; Lara Deutsch, flute 2019-20; Marc Djokic, violin 2017-18; and Philip Chiu, piano 2015-16.
Pianist Meagan Milatz
Meagan Milatz was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, the place she first studied piano. She would go on to review at McGill College in Montreal.
She is the founder, creative and government director of HausMusique chamber music live shows. HausMusique presents chamber music live performance within the elegant Artwork Deco area on the ninth flooring of the Eaton Centre.
Meagan has carried out as a soloist throughout Canada, together with appearances with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Regina Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke and the McGill Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.
She routinely performs with artists like Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and plenty of others.
Meagan acquired the Prix Opus “Discovery of the Yr” in 2024.
Mezzo-Soprano Kristin Hoff
Kristin Hoff is Govt Director of Mini-Opéra Santé and co-founding Inventive and Normal Director of the Montreal modern opera creation firm Musique 3 Femmes, an organization that commissions, develops and produces operas by feminine and non-binary creators. Musique 3 Femmes has to date commissioned 11 new operas, and offered 65 live shows and workshops throughout 14 cities, together with Montréal, Berlin, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, and in eight Canadian provinces. The corporate has skilled greater than 200 scholar hires.
She can be government director of Mini-Opéras Santé, an organization that brings opera to the individuals by way of duos of singers who carry out on the sidewalks, in again streets and parks in underserved neighbourhoods.
As a vocalist, Kristin has carried out at Carnegie Corridor, with the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Symphony Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Firm, Ensemble Caprice, Caramoor Pageant, and New York Pageant of Music, amongst others.
Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer & Mécénat Musica
Mécénat Musica is a cultural program with a novel mannequin. It was created by donors for different donors, making a sustainable supply of funding to help music and tradition. This system has to date amassed greater than $100,000,000 of in perpetuity capital for 50 Québec cultural organizations. The Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is one in all its many prizes and applications.
Congratulations to each deserving artists!
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