Offer for promoters and festivals
Offer for promoters and festivals
Since its foundation in 1983 by Yuli Turovsky, the Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal has established itself as a pillar of musical life in Quebec and beyond. The year 2025 marks a turning point in its history, with its 15 exceptional string players taking the reins themselves, providing joint musical and artistic direction. This formula, unprecedented in Canada, encourages the individual expression of each member in the service of a common artistic goal. Its flexibility allows guest collaborators to direct the preparation of certain concerts, fostering a shared and plural artistic vision by adding their specific voice to the artistic project. Its programming brings together past and present, memory and the construction of a cultural future, making I Musici de Montréal a bridge to a wider audience.
RHYTHMS FROM HERE AND ELSEWHERE
You’ll enjoy an escapist experience, visiting countries with colorful customs and music that will make you want to get up and dance!
Musicians present each piece.
Cultural mediation available
This concert takes you to the four corners of the world, through a variety of bewitching rhythms. From Quebec, with Dompierre and Gagnon, to South America, with Piazzolla and de Àguila, each work celebrates the musical soul of a country. Russia gets us dancing with Shostakovich, while Denmark’s folk dances bring lightness and energy. Spain sets the stage alight with Granados and Albéniz, followed by Tchavolo Schmitt’s gypsy swing. The journey ends in China and Armenia, where Zhou Long and Komitas offer us rich, moving traditional melodies. A colorful musical stopover!
Programme
(Québec) François Dompierre – Les beautés du diable
(Québec) André Gagnon – Concerto pour Carignan et orchestre
(Uruguay/États-Unis) Miguel del Àguila – Presto 2
(Argentine) Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion
(Russie) Shostakovich – Valse no.2 et Polka
(Danemark) Danses folkloriques : Peat dance et Shine you no more
(Espagne) Enrique Granados – Andaluza
(Espagne) Izaac Albéniz – Asturias
(France) Tchavolo Schmitt – Tchavolo swing
(Chine) Zhou Long – Chants folkloriques chinois
(Arménie) Komitas – Danses Arméniennes
THE SHEPHERD AND THE STORM
Rediscover Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as you’ve never heard them before, thanks to the originality and flamboyant verve of Julie Triquet, concertmaster, and the I Musici de Montréal orchestra.
Cultural mediation available
Our musicians will introduce you to the elements of nature, weather and village customs that Vivaldi himself asked the performers to evoke through their playing. The shepherd, the real hero of this wild story, will experience in turn the joy of spring, the dances and bagpipes of the peasants, the peace of sleeping in the heather, the morbid heaviness of the heatwave, the visceral fear of the storm, the drunken madness of the grape harvest, the hunting with hounds, as well as the biting cold of winter and the battling winds of the North.
As a prelude to this extravagant epic, let yourself be charmed by Mozart’s ravishing Divertimento no. 1, K.136, the work of a teenage genius, considered by many to be his very first symphony.
Programme
W.A. Mozart – Divertimento pour cordes en ré majeur K.136
Durée : approx. 18:30 minutes
A. Vivaldi – Les Quatre Saisons
Durée : approx. 44 minutes
THE YOUNG GIRL AND LOVE
Un concert théâtral sur le thème du destin
A theatrical concert on the theme of destiny
“Come, sweet night, night of love, dark night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he dies,
Take him, and make him into a thousand little stars;
And he will make of the face of heaven a masterpiece,
That all the worlds will take of the night,
And worship no more the bright sun.”
– from Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare
Like so many others, the young girl dreams of love… Her path towards it will be in turn tender, naive, grandiose and passionate, in the image of the music of Prokofiev and Elgar. This story, in which the young girl and her tragic destiny collide, will be told in music and words through texts by Shakespeare and Alina Ichmouratov, in this immersive theatrical concert featuring violist Elvira Misbakhova, the I Musici orchestra, and actors Alina Ichmouratov and Clara Prévost.
Three women and artists will successively embody the young girl on her journey, leading the audience to reflect on issues such as femininity, intergenerational transmission and the place of music and words in our deeply human experiences.
Programme
Au cours du programme, Alina et Clara réciteront divers textes extraits des œuvres suivantes :
W. Shakespeare – Roméo et Juliette
A. Ichmouratov – créations
S. Prokofiev – Roméo et Juliette
Op. 64, arr. Borissovksi/Vallières pour alto solo et cordes
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Introduction
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La rue se réveille
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Juliette enfant
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Danse des chevaliers
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Mercutio
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Mort de Juliette
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E. Elgar – Sérénade pour cordes op. 20
CONTINUUM
Didem Başar and I Musici de Montréal
An original creation by Didem Başar that takes you on a sensitive and enchanting journey.
Cultural mediation available
Turkish-born virtuoso Didem Başar unveils her new compositions for kanun (Turkish zither) and string orchestra. Embracing both Turkish musical traditions – with their modes and rhythms – and Western sound colors, this original project transports us across centuries and cultures. Didem Başar moves us with his powerful yet delicate playing. Travelling with her music to the four corners of the globe, she brings back all its beauty and richness. A sensitive, spellbinding journey.
Programme
D. Başar – Concerto pour Kanoun et cordes en trois mouvements
Durée : approx. 22 minutes
D. Başar – Current Yesterday (solo Kanoun et percussions)
Durée : approx. 5 minutes
D. Başar – Kervan
Durée : approx. 5 minutes
D. Başar – Cry
Durée : approx. 8 minutes
D. Başar – Outrenoir (à la mémoire de Pierre Soulages)
Durée : approx. 5 minutes
D. Başar – Zemzeme
Durée : approx. 5 minutes
MES FORÊTS
Hélène Dorion and I Musici de Montréal
Hélène Dorion’s poetic work Mes Forêts set to music by the I Musici de Montréal orchestra.
Cultural mediation available
A true symbiosis of poetry and music, the program proposed by I Musici de Montréal revolves around Hélène Dorion’s poetic work Mes forêts and compositions by Beethoven, Vasks, Richter and Glass. Intimate readings of excerpts from Mes forêts by the author herself, and the beauty of one of the works that best celebrates nature, Beethoven’s Pastoral, will be the common thread. The captivating, modern and resolutely accessible music of Max Richter, Pēteris Vasks and Philip Glass will complete this highly topical poetic tableau.
Programme
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Tailor-made concerts
Ask us for a tailor-made program, adapted to the needs and expectations of your audience. Our musicians will rise to the challenge of offering you a high-flying concert, drawing on the orchestra’s vast repertoire and responding to your special requests.
