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Codes d’accès, a Quebec organization dedicated to emerging composition since 1985, opens its 2025-2026 season on Monday, September 22 at the Sala Rossa with a program built around vocal music. In the first part, soprano and composer Rebecca Gray will offer a “recital of adventurous works” for solo voice, including pieces by renowned composers (Luciano Berio and Cathy Berberian) and two of her own compositions. More specifically, Rebecca Gray’s piece WTFJane Eyre is based on her connection with Charlotte Brontë and her fictional character Jane. The Montreal-based composer (originally from Ottawa) also worked with playwright Sarah Danielle Pitman, for whom this is her first opera experience.
In the second part of the program, new works by a collective of composers and performers draw inspiration from Barbara Strozzi’s (1619-1677) Baroque vocal work Lagrime mie to express their feelings about today’s reality, four centuries later. Dialogues avec Lagrime mie brings together four composers and seven emerging performers from the Montreal scene. Through the Baroque reference, these emerging artists seek “the translation of the poetic image, the reaction, the deconstruction, even the destruction of the piece,” thus exploring “the tension between hope and despair that runs through Barbara Strozzi’s work and still resonates strongly today.”
Monday September 22nd, SALA ROSSA, 7H30 PM, TICKETS AND INFS HERE
PROGRAM
REBECCA GRAY
Rebecca Gray “WTF Jane Eyre” for solo voice, 2019 (8’)
Luciano Berio, Sequenza III for solo voice, 1966 (8 min.)
Cathy Berberian “Stripsody” for solo voice, 1966 (7 min)
Sarah Pitman and Rebecca Gray [title to be announced] for solo voice, 2025 (8 min)
LAGRIME MIE
Lily Koslow and Jules Bastin-Fontaine “Dialogues,” acousmatic piece, 2024 (18 min.)
Tom Lachance “Perché non isfogate il fier dolore” for flute, saxophone, synthesizer, violin, viola, and cello, 2025 (10 min.)
Audréanne Filion « and so i hold myself back and swallow the cry of a darkened sobbing » pour saxophone, synthétiseurs, flûte alto et électroniques, 2025 (10’)
- Alex Huyghebaert, flute
- Anne-Claude Hamel-Beauchamp, violin
- Audréanne Filion, composition and cello
- Felix Gauthier, trumpet
- Jules Bastin-Fontaine, composition
- Lily Koslow, composition and synthesizer
- Magali Gavazzi-April, viola
- Thomas Gauthier-Lang, saxophone
- Tom Lachance, composition
