String Quartet Marathon Evening

As part of the Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques (MNM) festival, the Arte Musica Foundation joins the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in presenting a marathon of string quartets featuring three different ensembles. These three concerts will remind us that the string quartet, quite simply, is the quintessential vehicle for all compositions. A great way to celebrate the SMCQ’s 50th anniversary.

Works by Gougeon, Lesage, Rea, Sokolović, Tremblay, Vivier, Zorn.

Food and drinks available at the bar between concerts.

Tuesday, February 28th 2017 at 5:00pm
Duration: 5 Hrs

Ticket valid for the three parts: 5 pm, 7 pm, and 8:30 pm

Artists
Quatuor Capitano (Alexandre Read; Marc Djokic; Marina Thibeault; Julia MacLaine)
Bozzini Quartet (Clemens Merkel; Alissa Cheung; Stéphanie Bozzini; Isabelle Bozzini)
Quatuor Molinari (Olga Ranzenhofer; Frédéric Bednarz; Frédéric Lambert; Pierre-Alain Bouvrette)

5:00 pm — Quatuor Capitano
7:00 pm — Quatuor Bozzini
8:30 pm — Quatuor Molinari

Program
5 pm
QUATUOR CAPITANO
Claude Vivier, Quatuor à cordes (1968)
Gilles Tremblay, Croissant (2001)
Ana Sokolović, Blanc dominant (1998)
Denis Gougeon, Jeux de cordes (1995-96)
1. Jeu d’accents
2. Andante des harmoniques
3. Jeu sur un mode
4. Chant
5. Jeu d’imitation (Suivez-moi!)
John Rea, Objets perdus (1991)

7 pm
QUATUOR BOZZINI
Jean Lesage, Quatuor à cordes no 1 (2001)
Jean Lesage, Quatuor à cordes no 2 «Tombeau» (2002)
1. Divertimento serioso
2. Round, Catch and Canon Club
3. Divertimento buffo
4. Mr Birdcage’s Ground
5. Tombeau
6. Musique sur laquelle il n’est pas interdit de danser
Jean Lesage, Quatuor à cordes no 3 «Objets trouvés, commentaires et disgressions» (2005)
Jean Lesage, Quatuor à cordes no 4 (2016)

Photo: Élizabeth Delage

8:30 pm
QUATUOR MOLINARI
John Zorn, Cat O’Nine Tails (1988)
John Zorn, Kole Nidre (1996)
John Zorn, The Dead Man, 13 specimens for string quartet (1990)
John Zorn, Memento Mori (1992)

For tickets and information: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/concerts 514-285-2000

Bourgie Concert Hall
1339 Sherbrooke Street West,
Montreal, Quebec
H3G 2E8