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Episode: Denis Brott has recovered from severe COVID—but not from his brother's sudden death
Description: Cellist Denis Brott is about to kick off the annual Montreal Chamber Music Festival in his hometown of Montreal on June 4. It's the 28th edition of the festival he founded in the mid-1990s to make classical music more accessible to the general public. He'll also be performing—marking an incredible story of survival.
Brott, the Juno-award-winning musician from a legendary Canadian classical music family, caught one of the country's earliest cases of COVID in March 2020. He nearly died. After weeks in a coma at a Montreal hospital, he had to relearn to do everything, including speak, wa...