Dubstep / Electronic
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Classical
(CANCELLED) Italian Composers evening
As indicated on the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal’s website, the Vivace series gives carte blanche to its teachers and alumni, who are committed to presenting their distinguished guests. Cellist Carole Sirois and double bassist Joel Quarrington will have guests on stage. Italian works from various periods, from Baroque to modern, by Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007), Matteo Marangoni (1876-1958), Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) and Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) will be performed.
Classical
Vox Populi Quartet does Brahms
The Vox Populi Quartet operates more or less on the fringe of the classical institutional milieu. Without making much media noise, this young Montreal ensemble expands its repertoire and conquers audiences, concert after concert. This is the first in a series of three concerts devoted to Johannes Brahms under the theme of “bar, beers, and hookers”. Not to mention the narration by Patrick Mathieu, Artistic Director of Vox Populi, “a composer who talks about composers,” or the possible participation of a surprise guest – as announced on the ensemble’s official website. It should be noted that the works on the program are never revealed before a Vox Populi concert. It’s up to you to judge on the spot.
Vox Populi Quartet
Le Cas Brahms
Bar, bières et putains
Antoine Bareil, first violin
Uliana Drugova, second violin
Amina Myriam Tebini, viola
Ioav Bronchti, cello
Brahms String Quartets on Spotify
Folk Pop / Singer-Songwriter
Les Hay Babies lancement de Boîte aux lettres
Winner of the Francouvertes in 2018, La F has established itself among the rising forces of keb rap. We can expect a big year in 2020 promises to be a bif year for this Montreal band, and La F has several surprises in store for us in the near future. For starters, Thibault de Castelbajac (Jah Maaz), Thomas Thivierge (Mantisse) and Justin Boisclair (Bkay) launch their album Citadelle on the 7ième Ciel label, an opus concocted with help from beatmakers Oclaz, BLVDR and Bnjmn.Lloyd.
Classical / Minimalist / Modern Classical / Renaissance music
(CANCELLED) Hélène Dorion with les Violons du Roy
An interesting proposal, this literary concert – the prolific writer Hélène Dorion will read excerpts from her most recent collection of poems, Comme résonne la vie, accompanied the music of Les Violons du Roy, or in alternation with it. The musical palette will be varied: from the very Italian Renaissance madrigals of Gesualdo to a hypnotic piece by Estonia’s Arvo Pärt, as well as selected movements from string quartets by Schubert and Janacek, not to mention the premiere of a custom-made piece by Quebec composer Simon Bertrand.
PROGRAM
Gesualdo: Madrigals from libro quinto and libro sesto (Simon Bertrand, transcription)
Simon Bertrand: Creation pour des poèmes d’Hélène Dorion
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Janacek: String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, 1st movement
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden, 2nd movement (arr. for string orchestra)
Electro / Electronic / Techno
Com Truise • Procyon Lotor
Noise Rock / Psych-Rock / Rock / Stoner Rock
Birmani • Electrique Junk • Rorqual • Garbage Town
Classical
(CANCELLED) Leonidas Kavakos
Right from his debut in the ’80s, he’s dazzled the most demanding music lovers on the planet, far beyond the classical sphere. There is no doubt that Leonidas Kavakos has become one of the great living violinists in the known universe. A regular guest of the MSO since the Dutoit era, this time the Greek supervirtuoso will play the Violin Concerto No. 1 by the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It will be conducted by the young French maestro Lionel Bringuier, also back in Montreal after making a strong impression in 2018.
PROGRAM
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Lionel Bringuier
Violin: Leonidas Kavakos
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helix
Shostakovich, Violin concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales
Florent Schmitt, La tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50
Jazz
(CANCELLED) Terri Lyne Carrington at Schulich Hall
Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer and composer who has been active for almost 40 years. She has accompanied trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry, saxophonists Stan Getz and Wayne Shorter, singer Al Jarreau… but more particularly Herbie Hancock, whose band she was a member of from 1997 to 2007. Since then, she has been teaching at the Berkleee School of Music in Boston. A guest of the Catherine Thornhill-Steele Visiting Artists series, her drums will be propelled by the McGill Jazz Orchestra I on this night.
Africa / Afro Latin / Afro-Caribbean / Afrobeat / Afropop / Baile Funk / Bikutsi / Bossa Nova / Brazilian / Caribbean / Congolese Rumba / Cumbia / Highlife / Hiplife / latino / Makossa / Reggae / Roots Reggae / Salsa / Soukouss / Zouglou
Canicule Tropicale
Catalan Rumba / Pop / Western European
Kendji Girac
Born in Périgueux in the Dordogne, raised in a caravan during the summer holidays, the young singer and guitarist Kendji Girac is a real-deal Romani. Three decades after the Gypsy Kings, his French-language songs are based on Latin pop updates of Catalan rumba (a close relative of flamenco) and have propelled him to the heights of French entertainment.