Bourgie Hall presents

Four Cellos

Surrender to the expressive intensity of a cello ensemble. A quartet of cellos from the OSM performs transcriptions and original works from the French Romantic repertoire, from Chopin to Offenbach, combining the deep, velvety sounds of their instruments.

Artists
Musicians of the OSM
Anna Burden, cello

Anna Burden studied the cello with Hans Jørgen Jensen at Northwestern University, Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins at the Juilliard School and Alan Stepansky at the Manhattan School of Music. Music was omnipresent in Anna’s early years, and she began piano lessons at 6 years of age. Two years later, after hearing the sound of the cello in a summer music camp, she asked her parents to register her for courses on the instrument. At 11, during an orchestral rehearsal, Anna knew that she wanted to become a professional musician. Her favourite musical memory coincides with the inauguration of the Maison symphonique. It was Anna Burden’s first concert with the OSM in a programme including Beethoven’s monumental Symphony no. 9. Apart from her orchestral work, Anna Burden is active as a teacher and is also a member of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in Wisconsin.

Tavi Ungerleider, cello

Tavi Ungerleider began playing music with his mother, who was a piano teacher, and has always felt passionately about the art. He studied cello with Ronald Feldman in Boston, at the Juilliard School with Joel Krosnick in a exchange program with Columbia University, and with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. Mindful of the musical innovations of our time, he has performed with Béla Fleck and Leonard Slatkin, and has appeared in the TV series Masterclass featuring Michael Tilson Thomas.

Geneviève Guimond, cello

A graduate of the Juilliard School, Montreal-born cellist Genevieve Guimond has performed as soloist with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra, and I Musici de Montreal. She won the grand prize at the Montreal Classical Music Festival (2000), first prize at the Canadian Music Competition (2005) and first prize at the National Music Festival (2007). In 2006 Genevieve was featured as lead actress in a film by Canadian director Alex Franchi called Troll Concerto, the sound track on which she played da Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnol.

In 2013 Yo-Yo Ma appointed Genevieve as a Citizen Musician Fellow at the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In 2014-2015 she served as principal cellist and artist-in-residence of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. She has performed at many festivals in Quebec, at the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, Meadowmount in New York State, and the Aspen Music Festival, where she was awarded a two-year fellowship in 2010. In June 2017, Kent Nagano appointed Genevieve to the cello section of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Her main teachers have been Yuli Turovsky, Richard Aaron, and Hans Jensen.

Sylvain Murray, cello

Sylvain Murray studied cello at the Conservatory of Music in Chicoutimi, his hometown, then perfected his skills at McGill University with Antonio Lysy. From 2003 to 2007, he was a member of Les Violons du Roy, an ensemble with which he toured in Europe, the United States, Canada and Mexico. As a soloist, he has performed with the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Symphony Orchestra, the Montérégie Youth Symphony Orchestra and Les Violons du Roy. In Italy, he has participated in several festivals, including the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Festival della Valle d’Itria.

A renowned chamber musician, he has performed at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, at the Rendez-vous musical de Laterrière, at Pro Musica, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the Tableaus en musique series, the OSM chamber music series, with Musica Camerata Montréal, at the Lanaudière Festival, at the Orford Festival, at the Virée Classique, at the Lachine Festival as well as at the Société de musique de Québec. Sylvain has been a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since 2007.

Program
REICHA
Trio for Three Cellos (excerpts)
FRANCHOMME
Three Nocturnes, Op. 15
OFFENBACH
Adagio and Scherzo, A. 147
D’OLLONE
Andante and Scherzo for Three Cellos
CHOPIN/FRANCHOMME
Preludes, Op. 28 (excerpts)
Marche funèbre

Friday, March 7, 2025 at 6:30pm
To purchase your tickets, visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/