About Orgue et couleurs

Orgue et couleurs offers different events throughout the year with the pipe organ at centre stage. The Fall Festival, its main event since 1999, has brought to Montreal artists from around the world. Eager to push the pipe organ to its limits and the public towards new heights of enchantment, the Festival proposes audacious matches of the instrument with different art forms such as dance, theatre or even visual arts.

In order to create new venues for organists and their repertoires, several activities are organized such as les 24 heures du banc, les Ogres de l’orgue, Orgues ouvertes and its much celebrated organ improvisation game.

Orgue et couleurs organizes in collaboration with the city of Montreal, a summer series of symphonic concerts: Les Concerts populaires de Montréal.

Awards

Orgue et couleurs has received a number of awards:

• Initiative Award, RIDEAU 2001 for the 1st Fall Festival;
• Initiative Award, RIDEAU 2003 for the Ligue d’improvisation à l’orgue (LIO);
• CQM’s Opus Award 2001-2002 for Artistic Director of the Year, Régis Rousseau;
• CQM’s Opus Award 2002-2003 for Promoter of the Year, 4th Fall Festival;
• OFQJ Award 2003, Best performance at an event, for the project LIO/Musicora, Paris.