Prochain concert du Club musical de Québec, le 16 novembre

Un duo impressionnant au Club musical de Québec, le 16 novembre :

le violoniste Vadim Repin et le pianiste Nicolaï Lugansky

Le CLUB MUSICAL DE QUÉBEC présente un impressionnant duo composé du violoniste Vadim Repin et du pianiste Nicolaï Lugansky, le dimanche 16 novembre à 20 heures, à la Salle Louis-Fréchette du Grand Théâtre de Québec. Ce concert est enregistré par Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada 95,3 FM.

Retour ensemble au Club musical de deux musiciens chevronnés déjà invités individuellement et qui avaient tous deux littéralement triomphé à quelques saisons d'intervalle. En exclusivité canadienne, les retrouvailles tout aussi inattendues qu'inespérées à Québec de Vadim Repin et Nicolaï Lugansky, après un prestigieux arrêt à Salzbourg au cours de l'été.

Au programme :

Debussy, Sonate pour violon et piano in sol mineur, L.140

Stravinski, Divertimento pour violon et piano

Beethoven, Sonate pour violon et piano n^o 9 en la majeur, op. 47, « Kreutzer »

Encore cette saison, les plus GRANDS se succèdent au Club musical de Québec, avec le violoniste Vadim Repin et le pianiste Nicolaï Lugansky, le dimanche 16 novembre, à la Salle Louis-Fréchette du Grand Théâtre de Québec.

Il reste encore de très bonnes places pour ce concert. Les billets sont en vente à la billetterie du Grand Théâtre de Québec, en composant le 643-8131 ou 1-877-643-8131 ou encore dans le réseau BILLETECH (billetech.com).

New music for international summer music festival

Calgary, AB – Throughout the thirty days of the Morningside Music Bridge festival, works by famous composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Igor Stravinsky and Antonio Vivaldi will be performed at Mount Royal College and around the city.

But this year, newly-written music is also on the agenda. John Abram, an instructor at the Mount Royal Conservatory and music consultant for Morningside Music Bridge, has written a piece especially for the young musicians who will perform in the festival’s final gala, taking place July 31 at the EPCOR Centre’s Martha Cohen Theatre, starting at 7 p.m.

“Every year Morningside Music Bridge invites really excellent young musicians from around the world to take part, and you can basically throw the most difficult pieces from the classical repertoire at them. My goal was to write a new piece for string orchestra that will challenge them in a different way, based on ensemble playing versus solo playing,” says Abram.

The result is Pluck ─ a modern and fun composition of four movements. Abram describes the first movement as being very intense because of some unusual playing techniques that create a sense of tension; the second, he says, is very easy going at the beginning but becoming frenzied at the end; in the third movement, the music slows down and is quiet, featuring solo playing; the last movement follows without a break and is very fast and energetic, and rhythmically quite complicated.

Abram chose the title with equal deliberation. “At it’s most basic, Pluck refers to the plucking of the strings, but I also wanted a name that reflects the gusty nature of the students and the courage it takes to follow a career path in music,” Abram explains.

According to Paul Dornian, director of the Mount Royal Conservatory, Abram’s piece is the first of many organizers hope to commission with other composers over the coming years. “We, along with the sponsors, decided that it is part of our responsibility to upcoming generations of performers to encourage engaging new works of music that complement the historical repertories of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart.”

As for Abram, he hopes the students and audience will enjoy his work. “I had an absolute blast composing the piece and hope everyone who hears it becomes lost in the music.”