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The 59th season of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) highlights three great “boreal composers”: the late Kaija Saariaho (Finland), Nicole Lizée (Quebec) and the late Jocelyn Morlock (Canada), in three eclectic programs. In addition to a selection of eight pieces by these visionary creators, the 2024-25 season will feature works by Hans Martin, Keiko Devaux, Margareta Jeric, Philippe Macnab-Séguin, Samy Moussa, Tanya Tagaq and Rita Ueda. Among the pieces are five new SMCQ commissions.
To interpret all this music, the performance was entrusted to The Ensemble de la SMCQ (Cristian Gort, conductor), Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, Voces Boreales (Andrew Gray, conductor) and Trio Kalysta (Emily Belvedere, harp, Lara Deutsch, flute, Marina Thibeault, viola) with soloists Pamela Reimer (piano), Marie-Hélène Breault (flute), Chloé Dominguez (cello) and Mélanie Harel (oboe and English horn).
The SMCQ’s 59th season will also see the 12th presentation of the Montreal/New Music (MNM) international festival, from February 14 to March 2, 2025. The eclectic and explosive program, which explores the diverse facets of the relationship between music and images, will be unveiled in autumn 2024.
The intensification of the aurora borealis this year prompted a general theme, evoking the “multicolored spectrum of creative music”.
SMCQ Artistic Director, composer Simon Bertrand, explains his plans for the new season… and will unveil the MNM Festival program later this autumn.
