Chamber Music in Sainte-Pétronille: 40th Anniversary Season

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For the previous 40 years, the group of Sainte-Pétronille, situated on the western tip of Île d’Orléans, has hosted an annual summer time live performance sequence within the village’s ancestral church, which seats not more than 300.

Within the early Eighties, a gaggle of volunteer musicians and music lovers recognized the hilly panorama and century-old chapel, with its distinctive acoustics, as the perfect setting for intimate chamber-music concert events. In the summertime of 1983, Musique de chambre à Sainte-Pétronille was formally born, with Martin Lee-Gosselin as its founding president. As we speak, the group has produced over 140 concert events, that includes 250 musicians from a dozen international locations, together with some worldwide celebrities.

This 12 months, the competition will spotlight native musicians, says Marc Roussel, who has been creative director since 2017, including that the fortieth anniversary live performance will “clearly” be very private. Occasions will happen on Thursday evenings from June to August, and can characteristic award-winning musicians in all six performances, which promise to be stuffed with musical discoveries.

For the fortieth anniversary live performance on June 29, Roussel will likely be joined by native musicians: pianists Anne-Marie Bernard and Maxim Bernard, soprano Guylaine Girard, and guitarist Jérôme Ducharme. They are going to carry out works by Rameau, Schubert, Côté-Giguère, Brouwer, and Schumann. The competition organizers, says Roussel, are happy to have satisfied pianist Michel Franck to play a uncommon solo recital the next week, which guarantees to be one of the memorable musical occasions of the summer time. His program will embody Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. Within the ultimate week of July, the pianist couple Jean-Michel Dubé and Rosemarie Duval-Laplante will carry out works by Fauré, Gershwin, André Mathieu and Ravel.

In August, the Trio Hochelaga, consisting of award-winning musicians Anne Robert, Dominic Beauséjour-Ostiguy and Dantonio Pisano, will current a program that includes works by Beethoven, Novák and Mendelssohn. Ensemble Renouveau, that includes cellist Simon Desbiens, violinist Jessy Dubé, pianist Bruce Gaulin and sopranos Carole-Anne Roussel and Évelyne Larochelle, will set the church on hearth Aug. 17, with a efficiency of repertoire starting from chamber music, to people music, to opera. Lastly, cellist Cameron Crozman, named “Canada’s subsequent huge cello star” by CBC Music, and sought-after pianist Meagan Milatz will carry out the closing live performance of the competition’s fortieth season.