Trio Fibonacci – The Night of the Minimalists

Let yourself be enchanted by the greatest minimalists! The Trio first immerses us in the evocative music of Philip Glass, Ludovico Einaudi and other composers whose hypnotic works have left their mark on their respective cinematic worlds. This is followed by pure pop melodies by Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and Brian Eno in transcriptions created especially for this concert. Beethoven‘s Moonlight Sonata and the subtle play of light and shade in the music of Max Richter will also illuminate this ‘Night of the Minimalists’, intensified by a Quebec première. A maximum of emotion with a minimum of notes!

Artists
Julie-Anne Derome, violon

Winner of the prestigious 2003 Virginia Parker Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts, given to underline her innovative work as a performer, Julie-Anne Derome studied with Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK, and with Mitchell Stern and members of the Emerson String Quartet in the USA. She received a special prize at the 1992 Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Paris for her interpretation of Anthèmes by Boulez, and in 1993 took part in a concert of chamber music for Queen Elizabeth II in Cyprus.

Julie-Anne has been a guest artist at numerous international festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) on two occasions, Musica Strasbourg (France), Ultraschall (Germany), XIII Festival Música Contemporánea Chilena (Chile) and at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK).

Gabriel Prynn, cello

According to the magazine Musical Toronto “Prynn has a particularly silken bowing arm and remarkable control. Everything he played was poised, seamless and impeccably shaped.” During his career as a soloist, as a member of the Trio Fibonacci, and as a guest artist with diverse ensembles, notably the Ensemble Alternance in Paris, Gabriel has both resurrected forgotten masterpieces and premiered over sixty new works. Gabriel has performed at Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre, Merkin Hall in New York, at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in association with IRCAM and Radio-France, at the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) and at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.

Gabriel is passionate about teaching and held the position of Visiting professor at Ohio University from 2016 to 2019. He as given masterclasses, coached chamber music, and given workshops at such prestigious institutions as the École Normale de Musique (Paris), University of South Africa, University of Curitiba (Brazil), Royal Academy of Music (UK), Conservatory of Belgrade (Serbia), Conservatory of Nagoya (Japan), Hochschule Hanns Eisler (Berlin, Germany) and at the University of Oxford (UK).

Maxim Shatalkin, piano

Laureate of the 2004 Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation Award, the 2012 Rachmaninoff International Competition in St. Petersburg, and the 2013 Vienna International Piano Competition, Maxim Shatalkin graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied piano with Valery Kastelsky, Elena Kuznetsova and Mikhail Voskresensky, and chamber music with Alexander Bonduriansky, pianist of the Moscow Piano Trio. After winning the prestigious 2006 Swedish International Duo Competition with cellist Alexander Zababurkin, the local press reported: “Shatalkin revealed himself as a masterfully driven piano artist, where nothing was neglected: his performance combined a solid fidelity to style, well-adjusted temperament and overall an incredible, dazzling virtuosity”.

As a member of the Kudriakova-Shatalkin Piano Duo, he was also a prizewinner in the 2015 International Competition Pietro Argento in Italy and the 2016 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston (USA).

Program
Philip GLASS The hours
Ludovico EINAUDI Life et Experience
Armand AMAR Castells
Michael NYMAN Yellow Beach
Radiohead No surprises
Leonard COHEN Hallelujah
Brian ENO By this river
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Adagio Sostenuto from Moonlight Sonata
Max RICHTER Autumn Music 2
Marie-Pierre BRASSET Le Pendu & La Lune (première)

Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 7:30pm
Bourgie Hall

To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/