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The Classica Festival offers an original encounter with the cello, performed four times and exclusively by women, on Wednesday June 4 at Boucherville’s Sainte Famille church. A cello quartet, led by cellists Chloé Dominguez, Justine Lefebvre, Noémie Raymond and Kateryna Bragina. Those who play this instrument love to get together. Proof of this are the numerous ensembles of 12 cellos (I’m thinking of the Berlin Philharmonic, among others) and their respective albums, which have often reached the top of the classical charts. Here, four of today’s finest Quebec performers will offer a program in tribute to the instrument, but also to such composers as Isabella Leonarda, Nadia Boulanger, Hildegarde de Bingen and even Charlotte Cardin! A few males (one imagines them benevolent) mingle with the list (Piazzolla, Debussy, Monteverdi…). I spoke to the radiant Chloé Dominguez about all this.
