St. James United Church
TE DEUM
March 21
7:30 p.m.
Jean-François Rivest
Julie Triquet,
Christophe Gauthier,
Chœur Voces Boreales &
Presented in collaboration with the Voces Boreales chamber choir, this concert will take you on a deeply moving global journey through centuries of musical traditions. The concert will begin with one of the most famous organ preludes and fugues and the great Violin Concerto BWV 1052R by Bach. In a surprising move, a work for digital music and strings will be written by French-Canadian composer Robert Normandeau. Te Deum by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt will be presented in the second half of the concert. It is one of the most significant and surprising choral works in the repertoire. Get ready for a unique trip to the heart of a vast, deep soundscape!
– Jean-François Rivest
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Program
Bach
Prelude and Fugue for Organ in E-flat Major, “St. Anne,” BWV 552 16′
Durée: approx. 16 minutes
Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052R
Duration: approx. 22 minutes
Normandeau
L’Enchantement (digital music and strings)
Duration: approx. 15 minutes
Bach
Cantata BWV 146, 2. Chorus: “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsa”
Duration: approx. 7 minutes 30 seconds
Pärt
Te Deum for mixed chorus, prepared piano, tape, and strings
Duration: approx. 35 minutes
Julie Triquet
Julie Triquet
Solo violin
Biography
Julie Triquet began her violin studies at the tender age of three under Claude Létourneau. She went on to study at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec and has since received three annual professional development grants from the Canada Council for the Arts to study under David Cerone and Aaron Rosand at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. While in Philadelphia, Julie Triquet received the coveted Sylva-Gelber Music Foundation Award presented by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 1982, Julie won first prize at the OSM Standard Life Competition. This award paved the way for subsequent appearances with the best orchestras in Quebec, with which Julie distinguished herself as a soloist. Further recognition of her exceptional talent and passion for chamber music came in 1988, when Julie was named first violin with the Arthur-Leblanc Quartet, then in residence at the Université de Moncton, New Brunswick. From 1993 to 1998, Julie served as co-solo violin with Les Violons du Roy of Québec City. In September 2012, she was appointed solo violin with the Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal. Julie Triquet plays a Giuseppe Odoardi 1786 violin generously loaded by Mr. David B. Sela.
Christophe Gauthier
Christophe Gauthier
Organ
Biography
Bio to come…
Voces Boreales Choir
Voces Boreales choir, Andrew Gray
Conductor
Biography
Formed in 2006, the elite choir Voces Boreales has established itself as an important presence in the Canadian music landscape. Through performance, commissioning of new works, education and outreach, the ensemble raises awareness of the culture and rich tradition of choral music. Voces Boreales has built a solid reputation of artistic excellence, virtuosity, and adventurousness, prompting many meaningful collaborations with guests such as Quebec poet Hélène Dorion, Bozzini Quartet, Quasar, Bradyworks, Flûte Alors!, and Architek Percussion. The ensemble has performed at several prestigious events such as Festival de Lanaudière, Festival Bach Montréal, and Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques. In 2019 and 2022, Voces Boreales was nominated four times for the Conseil Québécois de la musique Opus Awards, acknowledging and encouraging excellence in Québec’s classical music community.
Voces Boreales is produced by the Montreal Choral Institute.
Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau
Composer
Biography
His work as a composer is mainly devoted to acousmatic music, although he composed some mixed works. More specifically, his compositions employ esthetical criteria whereby he creates a ‘cinema for the ear’ in which ‘meaning’ as well as ‘sound’ become the elements that elaborate his works. More recently Robert Normandeau composed a cycle of works of immersive multiphonic music for a dome of loudspeakers. Along with concert music he has composed, for a period of twenty years, incidental music especially for the theatre.
He has been Professor in electroacoustic music composition at Université de Montréal between 1999 and 2023 after completing the first DMus in Electroacoustic Composition (1992), under Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont. He leads the Groupe de recherche immersion spatiale (Spatial Immersion Research Group, GRIS), which produces sound spatialization software.
Robert Normandeau is an award winner of numerous international competitions, including Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria, 1993, Golden Nica in 1996), Bourges (France, 1986, ’88, ’93), Fribourg (Switzerland, 2002), Luigi Russolo, Varese (Italy, 1989, ’90), Métamorphoses, Brussels (Belgium, 2002, ’04), Musica Nova, Prague (Czech Republic, 1994, ’95, ’98, 2012, ’13), Noroit-Léonce Petitot, Arras (France, 1991, ’93), Phonurgia Nova, Arles (France, 1987, ’88), Stockholm (Sweden, 1992), and Giga-Hertz (Karlsruhe, 2010).
