Thursday, October 2, 2008

A platform for young organists, 4

• Laurence Jobidon et Emmanuel Bernier (class of Danny Belisle, Conservatoire de Québec); François Pothier Bouchard (class of Raymond Perrin, Trois-Rivières Conservatoire)

• Gesù - Centre de créativité
• Free Admission

Fairyland

• Caroline Demers, soprano; Louis Brouillette, organ

The magical and enchanting world of the fairy, as imagined by different composers over the years.

• Église Saint-Nom-de-Jésus
• $15 (general) / $12 (seniors) / $12 (students)

The Classics Remixed!

• Isabelle Demers, organ; Régis Rousseau, organ; Yves Daoust, composer

Moderns have always liked to remix the classics, and in this concert, the homages transcend the centuries with the premiere of a work for organ and electroacoustic music, Chorals ornés (2008), by Montréal composer Yves Daoust after the chorales in JS Bach’s Orgelbüchlein, with organist Régis Rousseau. In the concert’s first half, organist Isabelle Demers performs works by 20th-century composers who pay homage to their predecessors.

Concert presented in collaboration with Réseaux des arts médiatiques.

• Daoust (1946), Chorals ornés (2007-08), organ and tape
  • Commission
• Eben (1929), Hommage à Dietrich Buxtehude (1987)
• Alain (1911-1940), Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin (1936)
• Ligeti (1923-2006), Ricercare «Ommaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi» (1953)
• Reger (1873-1916), Fantaisie et Fugue sur Bach (1900)

• Église Saint-Nom-de-Jésus
• $20 (general) / $15 (seniors) / $15 (students)