Echoes of La Fontaine

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Echoes of La Fontaine

Imagination

Date

Friday, November 7, 2025, 5:30 p.m.

Venue

Espace Jax

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With

Catherine Perrin

harpsichord and narration

I Musici de Montréal and Catherine Perrin take you on a musical journey, created 20 years ago for the ensemble and acclaimed by audiences time and again.
From the words of La Fontaine to the works of Quebecois Denis Gougeon and Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, the orchestra brings past and present into dialogue, demonstrating that the morals of these fables are as relevant today as they were yesterday.

Program

Denis Gougeon et Jean-Philippe Rameau

Les fables de La Fontaine
(55 min)

No intermission

Artists

Catherine Perrin

harpsichord and narration

Biography

Catherine Perrin holds a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire de Montréal, and has performed with the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Bataclan Trio, among others. With I Musici de Montréal, she recorded Henryc Gorecki’s harpsichord concerto (Chandos disc, winner of two Opus awards). In 2005, at I Musici’s request, she created, with composer Denis Gougeon, a musical theater based on Lafontaine’s Fables, subsequently revived with Les Violons du Roy and then with the Quatuor Molinari.
From 2011 to 2019, Catherine hosted Médium large on weekday afternoons. She can now be found on Feu vert, also on Ici Radio-Canada Première.
In 2014, she published her first book, Une femme discrète, with Québec Amérique, followed by two novels with XYZ, one very musical, Trois réveils, and the other revealing her ecological concerns, L’âge des accidents. In 2023, she published Habiter en beauté with architect Pierre Thibault, published by La Presse.

Julie Triquet plays on a Giuseppe Odoardi 1726 violin, graciously loaned by Mr. David B. Sela.
Amélie Benoit Bastien plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, Paris, ca. 1845, number 1672, Stradivarius model, and a Eugène Sartory bow, Paris, ca. 1935, courtesy of CANIMEX.
Christian Prévost plays on a Rafelle et Antonio Gagliano violin, Naples (ca.18xx) and a Jean Joseph Martin bow (ca.1880), courtesy of CANIMEX.
Elvira Misbakhova plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume viola, Paris, ca. 1860-61, number 2342, Stradivarius model and a Louis Bazin bow, courtesy of CANIMEX.
Tim Halliday plays Mira Gruszow and Gideon Baumblatt’s 2014 Kolia cello, courtesy of Mr. David B. Sela.