Montréal

Electronic / Future Soul / Groove / Jazz / Jazz Fusion / Jazz-Funk / Soul Jazz

(POSTPONED) Thundercat

by Alain Brunet

Stephen Lee Bruner, aka Thundercat, has performed a few times on Montreal stages – notably in the programs of Flying Lotus and, more recently, Herbie Hancock. Composer, lyricist, singer and virtuoso bassist, he is now part of the new elite of Californian jazz-groove (Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Taylor McFerrin, etc.). His appearances on several songs by gifted rapper Kendrick Lamar have also made Thundercat shine. It Is What It Is, his fourth album, will be released on the Brainfeeder label next April, but before that, his fans will be treated to this new material on stage.

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Baroque / Classical

(CANCELLED) Luc Beauséjour

by Alain Brunet

Under the direction of virtuoso harpsichordist Luc Beauséjour, the Ensemble de musique baroque presents a repertoire of French baroque operatic arias and instrumental music. The composers performed include Jean-Baptiste Lulli (1632-1687), André Campra (1660-1744) and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).

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Electro-Arabic / Electronic / Persian Classical

(POSTPONED) Niyaz : « The Fourth Light »

by Alain Brunet

Niyaz’s craft is based on the integration of traditional and sacred songs with a contemporary aesthetic. Their choice of instruments cements the East-West connection: keyboards, guitars, digital apps, santur, saz, kaval, kopuz, bendir, riq, qanun, tabla and sarod.

Founded in 2005, Niyaz is a band of Iranian origin formed around Azam Ali (voice, percussion and santur) and Loga Ramin Torkian (multi-instrumentalist). The couple and their child lived in Montreal for the past decade, then returned to California, where they had previously been based. 

Recorded between Montreal and Istanbul, the album The Fourth Light is made up of the duo’s original songs, to which Turkish, Afghan and Iranian pieces are added. The songs are also inspired by Rabia Al Basri, a Sufi poetess and ascetic from the 8th century. The Fourth Light was launched in 2015, and five years later Niyaz come back to Montreal to perform it, roadtested and true. 

Théâtre Outremont’s website notes, “The Fourth Light is a multimedia show, conceived by Jérôme Delapierre, where oriental lutes unfold in electroacoustic instrumentation and where lighting and scenography combine with the dance of Tanya Evanson, one of the few dervish dancers.”

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Baroque / Classical / Classical Period

(CANCELLED) Jane Glover • Orchestre Métropolitain

by Alain Brunet

English maestra and musicologist Jane Glover is a great Mozartian, and that’s exactly why she’s conducting the Metropolitan Orchestra’s performances of Wolfgang Amadeus’ Horn Concerto No. 1, and his Symphony No. 31, known as Paris. The Quebec horn player Louis-Philippe Marsolais is the soloist recruited for this Mozart concerto, as well as for the premiere of the Horn Concerto by Simon Bourget, himself a horn player at the MO.

ARTISTS AND  PROGRAM
Orchestre Métropolitain
Jane Glover, conductor
Louis-Philippe Marsolais, french horn
Georg Friederich Haendel : Water Music
Mozart : Horn Concerto No. 1
Haydn : Symphony No. 85 La Reine
Simon Bourget : Concerto pour cor (premiere) 
Mozart : Symphony No. 31 Paris 

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Classical / Classical Period / Contemporary / Modern Classical

(CANCELLED) Vadim Gluzman • Jean-Marie Zeitouni • I Musici de Montréal

by Alain Brunet

Two years ago, I Musici de Montréal invited the Latvian-born Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman to perform Peteris Vasks’ Distant Light. Fabulous! To the delight of music lovers, Gluzman is back with the Montreal ensemble under the direction of Jean-Marie Zeitouni. This time, the virtuoso goes to work on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, accompanied for the occasion by cadenzas by composer Alfred Schnittke. Schnittke’s Concerto grosso sees an exchange between two violins, so Gluzman will dialogue with Julie Triquet, concertmaster of I Musici. At the opening of the concert, I Musici will supplement its core team for the performance of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony.

ARTISTS AND PROGRAM
I Musici de Montréal 
Vadim Gluzman, violon
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor
Serguei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 Classical (I Musici de Montréal will add some more musicians for this piece.)
Alfred Schnittke : Concerto grosso No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven : Violin Concerto, Op. 61

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Vadim Gluzman on YouTube

Classical / Modern Classical

(CANCELLED) Marc-André Hamelin • Louis Langrée • OSM

by Alain Brunet

Back in Montréal, the great pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs Liszt’s masterful Concerto No. 2, premiered in Weimar in January 1857, with a student of the German composer, Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, as soloist. No less than 163 years later, Quebec’s super-virtuoso has dedicated himself to serving and transcending this work by Liszt, one of the most important composers for the piano during the 19th century. Musical Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, French maestro Louis Langrée conducts the MSO for the first time, with Brahms and Schoenberg also on the program.

ARTISTS & PROGRAM 
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Louis Langrée, conductor 
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Brahms, Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (14 min)
Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125 (21 min)
Schoenberg, Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 5 (41 min)

Concerto No. 2 of Liszt by Marc-André Hamelin on YouTube

Classical / Jazz

(CANCELLED) Sérénade ensemble and jazz combo

by Alain Brunet

Under the supervision of maestro Véronique Lacroix, the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal’s Sérénade ensemble presents works built around the use of wind instruments, c/o Franz Schubert, Eugène Bozza, Darius Milhaud, Max Reger, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Further proof that jazz and classical music are increasingly connected, double bassist Éric Lagacé will lead a jazz combo made up of students from the Conservatoire to play standards taken from the American repertoire, interspersed with improvisations, as one might imagine.

PROGRAM:
Octuor à vent Sérénade, director, Véronique Lacroix
Works by Schubert, Bozza, Milhaud, Reger, Hummel and Mozart
Jazz combo, director, Éric Lagacé
Jazz standards and improvisation

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Classical / Contemporary / Minimalist

(Cancelled) Explorer of Dissonance and Sacred Art

by Michel Rondeau

Bound by a somewhat intriguing theme, three very different works. First, Philip Glass’ Quartet No. 3, originally composed for the soundtrack of the film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, American filmmaker Paul Schrader’s 1985 biographyof the Japanese author. This is followed by a new work by Montrealer Maxime McKinley and, by Hungarian composer Henryk Gorecki – a complete string quartet by whom Quatuor Molinari presented in September, which will be recorded and released next fall to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on November 12 – the Quartet No. 2, Quasi una Fantasia. 

PROGRAM

Philip Glass : String Quartet No. 3, Mishima

Maxime McKinley : (new work)

Henryk Gorecki : String Quartet No. 2, Quasi una Fantasia

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Ambient / Experimental / Contemporary / Post-Minimalist

(Cancelled) Raphael Weinroth-Browne

by Michel Rondeau

He’s a member of the Kamancello duo with Shahriyar Jamshid, a player of the Kurdish kamancheh (a bowed string instrument with a timre similar to a violin’s), and has participated in more than a hundred recordings, many of them for film and television. He’s performed at several festivals, played with Pauline Oliveros and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger, recorded and toured with the Norwegian progressive rock/metal band Leprous… but had no solo album to his credit. Tonight’s concert is just the occasion for its release. The music is intimate, even enveloping, with rich ambiences that unfold in space like the northern lights we sometimes see undulating in the summer sky.

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Classical

(CANCELLED) Beethoven’s Chamber Music – Concert II

by Alain Brunet

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth is the occasion for so many special programs around the world. Arte Musica offers us a superb selection of Beethoven, including the following series of chamber music concerts.

PROGRAM

Trio Grimal Gastinel Cassard  

David Grimal, violin

Anne Gastinel, cello

Philippe Cassard, piano

Strauss McNabney Haimovitz Trio

Axel Strauss, violin

Douglas McNabney, viola

Matt Haimovitz, cello

String trio No. 4 in D major, Op. 9 No. 2

Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3

String Quintet in C major, Op. 29

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