Didem Basar – Continuum – February 13, 2024 LiveEvents February 6, 2024 616 Bourgie Hall presents Didem Basar – Continuum Virtuoso Didem Basar shares with us her new compositions for kanun (Turkish zither) and string orchestra. Marrying the Turkish musical tradition with Western colours and sounds, this innovative concert traverses centuries and cultures. Artists Didem Basar, kanun and compositions Patrick Graham, percussion Étienne Lafrance, double bass Andara Quartet It was in September 2014, around Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F major, that the members of the Andara Quartet – Marie-Claire Vaillancourt (violin), Jeanne Côté (violin), Vincent Delorme (viola) and Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy (cello) – met for the first time at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the tutelage of Denis Brott. Since then, their passion, dynamism, quality of playing and unique repertoire have earned them critical acclaim across Canada and internationally. The Andara Quartet was the University of Montreal’s Junior Ensemble-in-Residence from 2021 to 2023, a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Ensemble-in-Residence, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival’s 2019 Career Development Residency Ensemble. Winners of several first prizes at national competitions between 2015 and 2019, the quartet members participated in the first ever Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam where they performed for members of the Emerson Quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga, Signum Quartet and Danel Quartet, among others. Numerous other high-profile international clinics have allowed them to work with musicians such as Günter Pichler, Mathieu Herzog and the Talich String Quartet at the 2018 edition of MISQA, the St. Lawrence String Quartet in Stanford (CA) in the summers of 2018 and 2017, Johannes Meissl and the Shanghai Quartet at the Pablo Casals Festival in France in 2017 as well as Barry Shiffman and Mark Steinberg at the Banff Chamber Music Residency in 2016. The group released its first self-produced album “Across the Americas” in the summer of 2021. In the fall of 2022, the Andara Quartet will release its second album entitled “De mille feux” with the Leaf Music label. Marie-Claire plays on an Andrea Guarneri violin from Cremona (1660) and a Hill & Sons bow, Jeanne plays on a Carlo Antonio Testore violin (1710) and a Marcel Lapierre bow (1950), and Dominique plays on a David Tecchler cello (1704) and a Pierre Simon bow (c. 1855), all courtesy of Canimex Inc. of Drummondville (QC), Canada. Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 7:30pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/
