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Montreal, March 16, 2023. The Montreal Chamber Music Pageant (MCCF) is delighted to current this system for its 28th version, which matches past the boundaries of the style. Live shows can be held in Bourgie Corridor on the Museum of Positive Arts and at Place des Arts for the primary time in its historical past. With a minimum of 15 live shows in 14 days, the pageant provides an outstanding array of music for all audiences. Every present is conceived as a novel second, a real inventive occasion that provides a diversified repertoire to fulfill the tastes of all music lovers: cello, faucet dance, musical fairy tales, jazz and intimate correspondence on music by Tchaikovsky are on this system.
“The FMCF’s mission was born out of a fervent need to create distinctive experiences for each the general public and the artists. Satisfied that chamber music is an intimate language that begins the place phrases finish, every performer in our pageant is superb, dedicated and passionate. They’re the middleman by way of which the message of the music is heard. Their sincerity, humility and dedication are important to creating the distinctive connection that makes the live performance an irreplaceable expertise,” mentioned Denis Brott, founder and inventive director of the FMCF.
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On Sunday, June 4 at 3:30 p.m., the pageant will start with a wide ranging live performance entitled Cello on Fireplace! that includes Stéphane Tétreault and eight Quebec artists: Vincent Bergeron, Marie-Ève Bock, Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, Chloé Dominguez, Benoit Loiselle, Noémie Raymond-Friset, and Bruno Tobon, all of whom are graduates of Denis Brott’s cello class. This distinctive live performance may even characteristic Denis Plante on bandoneon and can current Piazzola’s Tangos and his fabulous 4 Seasons.
As well as, the pageant will provide 5 new night live shows in Bourgie Corridor of the Montreal Museum of Positive Arts beginning at 7:30 pm.
June 6: Letko-Brosseau and the Jane Skoryna Basis are proud to current a historic occasion, the Farewell Emerson Quartet! This would be the final live performance that the famend Emerson Quartet will carry out in Canada, accompanied by visitor artists Denis Brott (cello) and Jan Lisiecki (piano). For 43 seasons, the Emerson Quartet, consisting of Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violin, Lawrence Dutton, viola, and Paul Watkins, cello, has established itself as one of many world’s main chamber music ensembles. After a protracted and profitable profession, he’ll retire within the fall of 2023. This live performance may even characteristic a uncommon look in Montreal by the good 27-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, who will be part of the quartet to carry out Dvorak’s Piano Quintet. Pageant Director Denis Brott will be part of his colleagues and mates of greater than 5 many years to carry out one of many biggest works within the chamber music repertoire, Schubert’s Two Cello Quintet in C main.
June 8: Canadian Stars, a vibrant live performance that includes Canadian artists with worldwide careers with Kerson Leong, violin, Bryan Cheng, cello, and Stewart Goodyear, piano. Reunited for the primary time, the three performers on this live performance are among the many elite of the brand new era of worldwide musicians. Their diversified program contains the Quebec premiere of pianist Stewart Goodyear’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Beethoven’s ever-popular Moonlight Sonata, the Hungarian gypsy affect of
June 12: Go Baroque! This live performance, sponsored by Phyllis Lambert, options world-renowned cellist Elinor Frey with visitor artists Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, cello, Federica Bianchi, harpsichord, Michele Pasotti, theorbo. On the planet of Baroque music, Montreal’s Elinor Frey has continued to push the boundaries of the cello and to find forgotten repertoire that sounds as contemporary and progressive at present because it did three centuries in the past. This live performance celebrates his Dall’Abaco CD launched in November 2022.
June 16: A Tribute to Oliver Jones: Jazzman Par Excellence, sponsored by Sebastian von Berkom, encompasses a collection of artists near Oliver and Oscar Peterson: Robi Botos, Ranee Lee, Lorraine Desmarais, Eric Lagacé, Chet Doxas, Taurey Butler, Michel Donato and Dave Laing. The identify Oliver Jones, born in Montreal, is synonymous with the best names in jazz music. Together with fellow Montrealer and good friend Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones’ imprint is simple. At 88 years of age, he has performed with the greats and impressed generations of jazz performers and music lovers.
June 17: First Prizes, a live performance that includes the winners of the Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors. The Isidore Quartet, current winners of the First Prize on the 2022 Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors, carry out the music that has introduced them worldwide recognition. Along with this grand prize, they received the Haydn Prize and the prize for one of the best interpretation of the work commissioned for the event. On this distinctive live performance, he’ll collaborate with the 2023 Juno Prize winner, Canadian virtuoso pianist Phillip Chiu. This system can be a confluence of cultures. The Isidore String Quartet’s participation within the Pageant is supported partially by the Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors’s Profession Growth Program.
Additionally at Bourgie Corridor, however at midday, six different 55-minute live shows can be provided, three of that are free:
June 12 : The winners of the Canada Council’s 2023 Musical Instrument Financial institution competitors, to be introduced on April 30.
June 14 : Giora Schmidt, Vatra Quartet with Giora Schmidt (graduate of Itzak Perlman’s class) and Eva Lesage, violin, Sebastian Gonzalez Mora, viola, Bruno Tobon, cello, Chloé Dumoulin, piano
On June 17 : Noémie and mates with Noémie Raymond-Friset, director of operations for the pageant (she performs a Canimex Goffriller cello) and Bora Kim, violin, Ryan Davis, viola, Kevin Ahfat, piano. This system features a Rachmaninoff Sonata and Brahms’ Quartet in C minor.
Along with these free lunchtime live shows, there are three others which are ticketed and are linked to performances given later within the night:
June 6 : Kerson Leong & Bryan Cheng Kerson Leong, violin, Bryan Cheng, cello, will provide a preview of the June 8 Canadian Stars live performance.
June 8 : Elinor Frey. Baroque Cello Defined. This live performance will characteristic a presentation that explains the Baroque cello in preparation for the Go Baroque! live performance.
On June 16, the Isidore Quartet (First Prize winner of the Banff Worldwide String Quartet Competitors) with Phoenix Avalon, Adrian Steele, violin, Devon Moore, viola and Joshua McClendon, cello. This system will characteristic Beethoven’s Opus 132 preceded by a chat by Pageant Inventive Director Denis Brott. A preview of the First Prize present on June 17.
On June 11, at 3:30 p.m. in Bourgie Corridor, Fairy Tales, a family-friendly live performance that includes everybody’s favorite works: Carnival of the Animals and Peter and the Wolf with Alexander Learn, Bora Kim, violin, Lambert Chen, viola, Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello, Joel Quarrington, double bass, Arianne Brisson, flute, Theodore Baskin, oboe, Antonin Cuerrier, clarinet, Mathieu Harel, bassoon, Catherine Turner, Nadia Côté, Sarah Amahrit, French horns, Stéphane Beaulac, trumpet, Patrice Richer, trombone, Cory Rae, Joshua Wynnyk, percussion, Kevin Ahfat, Chloé Dumoulin, piano with Jean Marchand for the narration. Carnival of the Animals can be in French, Peter and the Wolf in English. On stage can be nineteen wonderful performers together with a number of members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
On June 18 at 3:30 p.m. on the Maison Symphonique de la Place des arts – a primary for the FMCM – can be held Obsession: Tchaikovsky and his Muse, the closing live performance of the pageant that highlights Tchaikovsky’s relationship along with his patron Nadezhda von Meck. You’ll uncover the distinctive function of the muse of one of many biggest Romantic composers of all time: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Giora Schmidt, Kevin Zhu, Phoenix Avalon, Bora Kim, Amy Hillis, Adrian Steele, Abby Walsh, violin, Victor Fournelle-Blain, Devin Moore, Ryan Davis, Lambert Chen, viola, Denis Brott, Noémie Raymond-Friset, Joshua McClendon, Bruno Tobon, cello, Joel Quarrington, double bass, Yekwon Sunwoo, piano will carry out the composer’s works alongside Anne Julie Proulx, Jean Marchand who will present the narration.
Michèle Marchand, the creator of this present, has combed by way of some 700 letters discovered within the intimate correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Mrs. von Meck. The result’s a group of poignant exchanges that make clear Tchaikovsky’s ideas and reveal the emotional message behind the music you’ll hear.
This system contains two masterpieces: Tchaikovsky’s Trio Op. 50 and his Sextet Memento de Florence in a transcription for string ensemble that includes 17 excellent virtuosos.
Mission of the FMCM
To current chamber music of the very best requirements of efficiency, whether or not in classical, jazz or different genres. To showcase internationally famend artists in addition to rising stars from Canada and overseas. Contribute to the richness and variety of Montreal as a cultural hub of worldwide calibre.
Tickets can be found on the Place des Arts de Montréal web site
https://placedesarts.com/fr
FMCM passports costing $300 (taxes included) are solely accessible by way of the pageant web site
https://festivalmontreal.org/fr/
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