The Festival de Lanaudière is the premier classical music event in Canada with performances enjoyed by 55,000 visitors each year. Concerts are held at the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre (30 minutes away from the eastern tip of the island of Montreal) and in the region’s beautiful churches.


Saturday, July 9, 2016

Alain Lefèvre plays Tchaikovsky: Romantic Drama and PassionFestival de Lanaudière - Alain

Romanticism, warmth, lyricism and stormy turbulence – no concerto embraces Alain Lefèvre’s passionate personality as does Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No. 1. This is the concerto scheduled for the Festival’s Opening Night on July 9. Also on this all-Tchaikovsky program will be the symphonic poems The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, both inspired by immortal works of Shakespeare.

Festival Orchestra
Alain Lefèvre, piano
Gregory Vajda, conductor

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 18
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture

Ottorino Respighi
Feste romane (Roman Festivals)

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

The mark of minimalism: Glass, Pärt, Mozetich, Nyman, Einaudi

Festival de Lanaudière - Angèle Dubeau

With her colleagues of La Pietà, Angèle Dubeau has in recent years focused on music of some of the most important minimalist composers like Arvo Pärt, Ludovico Einaudi, Marjan Mozetich, Michael Nyman and Philip Glass. With its hypnotic rhythmic patterns, captivating themes, pared-down musical language and gentle spirituality, minimalism is one of the few movements in modern music that have gained popular interest. Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà pay tribute to this music of profound simplicity and great originality in their concert on Sunday, July 10.

La Pietà

Angèle Dubeau, violin

Philip Glass    La Belle et la Bête : « Ouverture »
Ludovico Einaudi: (Arr. F. Vallières, A. Dubeau) – Divenire/ Giorno dispari /Run
Marjan Mozetich –   Postcards from the Sky : « Unfolding sky »
Arvo Pärt – Mozart Adagio
Michael Nyman: (Arr. A. Keenan) – À la folie
Maxime Goulet – Présentation concertante
Philip Glass: (Arr. M. Riesman) – Suite from The Hours : « Movement 1»
Ludovico Einaudi: (Arr. F. Vallières, A. Dubeau) – I giorni/ Life/ Experience

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Friday, July 15, 2016

The Conductor serves Haydn and Beethoven

Festival de Lanaudière - Violins du RoyMusic fresh as a summer evening, a virtuosic soloist, a brilliant and inspired conductor, a dynamic and outgoing orchestra – this is the menu offered by Bernard Labadie, Anthony Marwood and Les Violons du Roy!

Les Violons du Roy
Anthony Marwood, violin
Bernard Labadie, conductor

Joseph HAYDN
Overture to L’isola disabitata

Joseph HAYDN
Symphony No. 95 in C minor

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto, Op. 61

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

Festival de Lanaudière - Jessica VigneaultVocalist Jessica Vigneault, accompanied by the Montréal National Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Christine Jensen, pays lively tribute to the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald, who was perhaps the greatest jazz singer of the twentieth century. The program includes hit songs that made this grande dame of jazz famous, including “Embraceable You,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” and “Someone to Watch over Me” by George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer’s “Laura,” Cole Porter’s “You Do Something to Me,” and many more.

Hum along to your favorite songs and dance in the aisles while a vibrant singer and a stirring ensemble bring back the great era of Big Band music.

Montréal National Jazz Orchestra
Jessica Vigneault, vocalist
Christine Jensen, conductor

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Friday, July 22, 2016

The Colors of French RomanticismFestival de Lanaudière - Karina Gauvin

 

Packed with brilliance, filled with color, affecting and moving with touches of sensuality, French music of the romantic period cannot fail to please! Experience it to the fullest with soprano Karina Gauvin, the Orchestre Métropolitain, and conductor Mathieu Lussier.

Orchestre Métropolitain
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Mathieu Lussier, conductor

Édouard LALO
Overture to Le Roy d’Ys
Jules MASSENET
Méditation from Thaïs
Ernest CHAUSSON
Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Hector BERLIOZ
Le Corsaire, Overture
Georges BIZET
Three songs for soprano and orchestra
Cesar FRANCK
Le Chasseur maudit

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Friday, July 29, 2016

Live the Collectif9 experience!

Festival de Lanaudière - collectif9

Collectif9 is a string ensemble like no other. This classical music group imbues the stage with the charisma of a rock group, including sets and lights. It combines originality and virtuosity to create an absolutely unique, sizzling musical experience. Well-known in popular venues, the group engages audiences in stimulating dialogue in repertory ranging from Brahms and Bartók to Piazzolla to André Gagnon.

Whether you are looking to discover classical music, or just want to get off the beaten track, collectif9 is for you!

Thibault Bertin-Maghit, double bass and arrangements
Andrea Stewart, cello
Jérémie Cloutier, cello
Scott Chancey, viola
Xavier Lepage-Brault, viola
Roland Arnassalon, violin
Yubin Kim, violin
Frédéric Moisan, violin
Grégor Monlun, violin

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Charles Richard-Hamelin and OSM

Festival de Lanaudière - Charles Richard-HamelinPianist Charles Richard-Hamelin, winner of the Silver Medal and the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, has appeared on several occasions at the Festival in recent years in church recitals, in chamber music at the Musée d’art de Joliette, and as concerto soloist on the Amphitheatre stage. It is with great pride and joy that we welcome the Lanaudière pianist once again, on August 5 at the Fernand-Lindsay Amphitheatre for his first performance with Kent Nagano.

The people have chosen! After two months and more than 600 votes, the Festival de Lanaudière announces the concerto Charles Richard-Hamelin will play: it will be Brahms’s Concerto No. 1 in D minor. We thank you for being among the many who voted!

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
Kent Nagano, conductor

Robert SCHUMANN – Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Rhenish”
Johannes BRAHMS – Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op.

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Kent Nagano and the Mozart Requiem: A great classic in the great outdoors

Festival de Lanaudière - Kent NaganoFor more than two centuries, Mozart’s stirring Requiem, his final composition left incomplete upon his death, has ranked as an audience favorite. As a follow-up to Beethoven’s striking Missa solemnis in 2015, Kent Nagano and the OSM present another in their series of great choral masterworks at the Amphitheatre.

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Sarah Webner, soprano
Michèle Losier, mezzo-soprano
Michael Schade, tenor
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, bass

Festival Chorus
Andrew Megill, chorus master
Kent Nagano, conductor

Wolfgang Amadè MOZART
Requiem in D minor, K. 626

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Orchestre Métropolitain : From Philadelphia with Love

Festival de Lanaudière - Yannick-Nezet-SeguinMontreal, city of a hundred steeples and Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love – two cities close to the heart of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The famed conductor brings to his Montreal orchestra a program of works that were given their world premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra, two masterpieces of Sergei Rachmaninoff: the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Symphonic Dances.

A grand finale to your Lanaudière summer of music!

Orchestre Métropolitain
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

BACH/STOKOWSKI- Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Sergei RACHMANINOFF – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Nico MUHLY – Mixed Messages
Sergei RACHMANINOFF – Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Amphithéâtre Fernand-Lindsay (Lanaudière)
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 For the complete schedule of events, visit: www.lanaudiere.org