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TICKETS Adults: $18 or $12 depending on the concert Students and Seniors: $7 or $14 depending on the concert
Season tickets are also available: Adults: $42, Students and Seniors: $24 Available at the Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre, Stewart Hall. Please call the Cultural Centre at (514) 630-1220.
WINTER-SPRING 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010 – 8:00 pm FLUTE, CELLO, PIANO: A PURE DELIGHT!
Claire Marchand, flute; Marieve Bock, cello; Martin Dubé, piano
What an exceptional chamber music concert!
Claire Marchand, flute Martin Dubé, piano Marieve Bock, cello
Tickets $14 and $7
Claire Marchand, winner of the 2006 Opus Prize for best concert of the year, is one of the most sought after flautist in Quebec. She participated as a soloist is some of the most prestigious music festivals in Canada, the United States, Japan, Mexico, Europe and Asia. She is also heard regularly on CBC Radio. She teaches at McGill’s Music Conservatory of the Schulich School of Music, and at the Pointe-Claire Cultural Centre.
Cellist Marieve Bock succeeded brilliantly in her studies in Montreal, Houston, and in California. She has won numerous awards among them prizes from the Canadian Music Competition and the Concours Jeunes Artistes. She has played with Violons du Roy, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and the ECM+.
Completing the trio, Martin Dubé will be at the piano. After studying vocal coaching and accompaniment, Martin Dubé collaborated with mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux which took him to the most prestigious world venues. He acted as master class accompanist for the greatest international artists, was voice coach at the Juilliard School of Music, and is accompanist at the Montreal International Music Competition. Works by Haydn, Weber, Martinu, Goossens, Cassabo et Gieseking.
Friday, March 26, 2010 – 8:00 pm Tickets $14 and $7.
MUSIC AND DANCE IN NEW FRANCE Les Idées Heureuses: Olivier Brault, music director, violin and dance; Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, design, stage management, choreography and dance; Dorothéa Ventura, voice and dance; Geneviève Soly, harpsichord.
Using a combination of dance, text and music, Les Idées Heureuses transport their audience to a bourgeois living room in 18th century New France, where you will discover a well developed sense of musicality anchored in the daily life of the inhabitants. Works by Charpentier, Lully, Boismortier and the Livre d’orgue de Montréal, are interwoven with extracts of letters by Mme Gégin, wife of the Governor of Trois-Rivières.
This event has received the financial support of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal en tournée.
Friday, April 16, 2010 – 8:00 pm HARPSICHORDS IN CONCERT Tickets $14 and $7. This event has received the financial support of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal en tournée.
Harpsichords: Thomas Annand, Luc Beauséjour, Vincent Boucher and Nicolas-Alexandre Marcotte. Strings: Adrian Butterfield, violin; Hélène Plouffe, violin; Jacques-André Houle, alto; Amanda Keesmaat, cello; Nicolas Lessard, bass
This very unique and festive classical concert brings together four harpsichordists and a five- musician string ensemble for a very unusual programme:
Two J.S. Bach concertos for 3 harpsichords, a work by young Quebecois composer Maxime McKinley, Sorciers Manga, and a Vivaldi concerto for 4 harpsichords and strings.
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