MUSIC THIS WAY!

BENEFIT CONCERT :
LOUIS LORTIE
— Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 7 pm at the Pierre-Mercure hall of the Pierre-PĂ©ladeau Centre

The I Musici de MontrĂ©al Chamber Orchestra is pleased to invite you to a wonderful benefit concert, accompanied by the famous pianist Louis Lortie.

The fundraising event, chaired by Robert Dutton, Associate Professor at HEC Montréal, will raise funds to support our mission and activities in cultural mediation in the community. In the past two years, more than 4,400 young and old have been able to receive the orchestra in their schools, parks, low-income housing units and residences.

Come feast after the concert at the cocktail party prepared by our caterer Olive Orange that will take place on the stage of the Pierre-Mercure hall in the presence of Louis Lortie, Jean-François Rivest and our Musici!

Louis Lortie’s reputation is well established… He is one of the most prestigious pianists from Canada (born in Montreal) and his long and fruitful career (both in Europe and America) attests to this. For this benefit concert, the pianist offers you the two concertos of Mozart that he endisqués with I Musici de Montréal and Yuli Turovski in 1985: the Concerto K. 414 in A major and the Concerto K. 449 in E flat major. It was then his very first Chandos record. Since then he has signed more than fifty!

- Jean-François Rivest

AGENDA OF THE EVENING

6 p.m. | Guest reception and welcome cocktail
7 p.m. | Concert of Louis Lortie at the Pierre-Mercure hall
8:15 p.m. | Cocktail party with Louis Lortie, musicians and conductor Jean-François Rivest

PROGRAM

Mozart
Divertimento K. 138 in fa major
Duration: approx. 13 minutes

Mozart
Concerto for piano K. 414
Duration: approx. 23 minutes

 

Mozart
Concerto for piano K. 449
Duration: approx. 23 minutes

TICKETS THIS WAY

Louis Lortie
Guest 

For over three decades, French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has performed world-wide, building a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile pianists. He extends his interpretative voice across a broad spectrum of repertoire, and his performances and award-winning recordings attest to his remarkable musical range.

In recital and chamber music, Louis Lortie appears in the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals, including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, the Beethovenfest Bonn, and Liszt Festival Raiding. Recent special projects have included performances of Liszt’ complete Années de Pèlerinage in one evening and a complete Beethoven sonata cycle filmed at Salle Bourgie in Montreal, and broadcast on Medici TV in 2021.

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IMAGES OF OUR CONCERT ON APRIL 13
Our guest soloists: Vincent Lauzer (recorder), Caroline Tremblay (recorder) and Ariane Brisson (flute), accompanied by our solo violinist Julie Triquet, our conductor Jean-François Rivest and our Musici, delivered a delightful concert last Thursday at the Pierre-Mercure hall of the Pierre-PĂ©ladeau Centre. On the program a real celebration of the flute staged by great composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, Debussy and Bach.

UPCOMING CONCERT

ITALY : STÉPHANE TÉTREAULT AND BOCCHERINI
— May 11, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. 

Here’s yet another chapter in Yuli’s Heritage, a project we started last year. Our artist in residence, the splendid cellist Stéphane Tétreault, will present Boccherini’s sensual Concerto in B-flat major. Stéphane will join our cello section after his solo performance to play my transcription of one of Beethoven’s key quartets, the majestic Quartet Op. 127, written at the same time as the Ninth Symphony. To start the concert, we will all take in a new commissioned work of which we reserve you the surprise.

— Jean-François Rivest

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MUSIC IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

Through our beautiful collaboration with Le Groupe Maurice, partner of the 2022-2023 season, our musicians once again offered a wonderful concert of classical music to the people of RĂ©sidence Le Cavalier in LaSalle. More than 14 residencies of the Maurice Group in Montreal will receive the orchestra in the coming months.

 

 

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