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It is on July 25, 2025, at the Gilles-Lefebvre Hall in Orford that the Collectif9 ensemble will present to festival regulars their exciting vision of contemporary folklore, or at least the idea of folklore that some of today’s most creative musical minds in classical music have: Nicole Lizée, Vijay Iyer, John Zorn, and several others. I spoke about this with the two masterminds behind the success of this ensemble, Andrea Stewart and Thibault Bertin-Maghit. I also took the opportunity to ask them about their role as guides in chamber music for the young people at Camp Orford, and how they perceive this new stage in their artistic lives, they who not so long ago were young people launching themselves into the world of concert music (they still are, young, that is, hence the question).
