OSM / Tribute to musical creativity
Tribute to musical creativity
Susanna Mlkki of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in
for the first time in
Chantal Juillet back with the OSM
Walter Boudreau conducts works by Reich, Vivier and Frehner
Movie projections on a giant screen
An essential part of the OSMs 75th season, this concert is closely linked to two Qubec composers who cannot be ignored, marking as it does the 60th anniversary of the birth and 25th of the death of Claude Vivier, and the 10th anniversary of the premiere by Chantal Juillet and the OSM of Andr Prvosts Violin Concerto. In addition, the Orchestra will perform Canadian Paul Frehners Lila, which won the Claude Vivier National Prize in 2007 as part of the OSMs International Composition Prize.
Susanna Mlkki
Music director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain since 2005, Susanna Mlkki has quickly obtained international recognition for her talent as an orchestra conductor. Deeply committed to the cause of contemporary music, she is one of the few women conductors enjoying an international career. She led both the world and the North American premieres of Finnish composer Kaija Saariahos oratorio La Passion de Simone, an event that was acclaimed by the New York Times. Her collaborators have included the Klangforum Wien, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the ASKO and Avanti! ensembles, and she has conducted such prominent orchestras as the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic, the Danish National Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the North German Radio Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Swedish Radio Symphony and the Cincinnati Symphony.
Walter Boudreau
Walter Boudreau has been highly active, since the early 1970s, in musical creativity in Qubec. Artistic director and principal conductor of the Socit de musique contemporaine du Qubec (SMCQ) since 1988, he has collaborated on a regular basis with the OSM in large-scale projects (OSMCQ, Symphony of the Millennium, Musimarch, Montreal/New Music International FestivalĶ). In 1968, with poet Raoul Duguay, he founded Infonie, a colourful ensemble of about 33 members located somewhere in the middle of happening, jazz, contemporary music and multimedia.
The work of the Montreal-born composer and conductor has been rewarded with the prestigious Grand Prize of the Conseil des arts de la Communaut urbaine de Montral. He is also the recipient of First Prize from the CBC National Competition for Young Canadian Composers, the Prix Jules-Lger for New Chamber Music, the Grand Prix Paul Gilson from the Communaut des radios publiques de langue franaise, in Paris, and a number of Prix Opus from the Conseil qubcois de la musique. The Canada Council for the Arts presented him with its Molson Prize, in recognition of his career as a whole. He has won a Masque, awarded by the Conseil qubcois de la musique, as well as the Thtre du Nouveau Mondes Prix Gascon-Roux for best sound design at the Theatre. Lastly, he has received the Prix Denise-Pelletier for performing arts the highest distinction offered by the Qubec government in the area of culture and science.
Chantal Juillet
The OSM has had a special relationship with violinist Chantal Juillet for some time. Winner of the OSM Competition in 1974, she joined the Orchestra in 1985, was appointed associate concertmaster in 1990 and has performed on a number of occasions as a soloist with the Orchestra.
Recognized as one of the countrys most brilliant musicians, she enjoys an international career that takes her to the five continents. She is a frequent guest with orchestras as pre-eminent as the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France, the London Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The violinist has soloed regularly with great American orchestras like the
Works on the program
Andr Prvost, Violin Concerto
Among other moments being celebrated by the concert is the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Andr Prvosts Violin Concerto, which was commissioned by the OSM and Chantal Juillet. Fascinated by the creative act, director James Dormeyer spent two years, day after day, as a privileged witness to the creation of this work, from the first sketch to the final concert, given by Chantal Juillet and the OSM at Place des Arts. The film that resulted is called Journal dune creation (Diary of a Creation), an excerpt of which will be shown during the performance. James Dormeyer set out to depict, with as much clarity as possible, not only the subtleties of a complex musical language but also the movements of the soul that were at the source of the work, with its author as with its performers.
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Claude Vivier, Orion
Orion, by Montrealer Claude Vivier, a composer the 60th anniversary of whose birth and 25th of whose death are being marked, was commissioned and premiered by the OSM in 1980. The work is also being presented as part of the Claude Vivier tribute series in the Montreal/New Music International Festival.
Viviers art is based on a melody. I have to feel close to my musical material, Vivier stated. I have to live it. Gyrgy Ligeti considered the music of Claude Vivier among the most original of his time.
Steve Reich, City Life
Celebrated American composer Steve Reich is featured with his City Life, for instrumental ensemble and samplers, an specially dense work that presents a
Last year at the OSM, Jrme Boscs Buster, a montage based on Buster Keaton movies, was projected to John Adamss work Fearful Symmetries. The film was a great success.
Gyrgy Ligeti, Lontano
Lontano by Gyrgy Ligeti, who died in 2006, is a flagship composition of the 20th century. One of the composers best known works, it is nonetheless rarely heard in concert. In fact, the last time the OSM played it was in 1981, under the direction of Charles Dutoit.
Director Stanley Kubrick used Gyrgy Ligetis music several times in his films, in particular Atmosphres, Requiem, Lux terna in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Musica ricercata in Eyes Wide Shut.
Paul Frehner, Lila
In 2007, Canadian Paul Frehner took the Claude Vivier National Prize with Lila at the OSM International Composition Prize. Lila is a Hindu creation myth in which Brahman transforms into the universe. Its a rhythmic play, in the composers own description, which goes on in endless cycles, the One becoming the many and the many returning into the OneĶ. In Lila, there are no obvious audible references to Eastern musical tradition. The rhythmic and metric aspects of the score, however, are governed by a personal interpretation and application of Jhumra, a 14-beat cyclical metric structure used in Indian classical-music traditions.
Non-series Concerts
October 29 at 8 p.m.
Thtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
Susanna Mlkki and Walter Boudreau, conductors
Chantal Juillet, violin
Gyrgy Ligeti Lontano
Andr Prvost Violin Concerto (premiered by Chantal Juillet) (with projection of the James Dormeyer film Journal dune creation)
Paul Frehner Lila
Steve Reich City Life (with projection of the Jrome Bosc video City Life)
Claude Vivier Orion
Tickets starting at $24.75
15-30 years old: $15
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