Bourgie Hall presents

Schubert, Earth and Heaven

For the legendary “Schubertiades,” gatherings of friends eager for poetry and music, Schubert composed several vocal quartets evoking love, solitude, the charms and rigours of nature, death, and the power of spirituality.

Artists
Andrew McAnerney, conductor

Raised in the British choral tradition, Andrew McAnerney is a versatile and accomplished conductor, singer, and educator. Andrew studied music at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) and built his career performing with many of Europe’s finest vocal ensembles including the world renowned Tallis Scholars.

Andrew is the Artistic Director of Le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), The Cantata Singers of Ottawa (CSO) and Director of the Men & Boys choir at Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa. Andrew has toured extensively and guest directed a wide variety of Canadian choirs and orchestras including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Arion Baroque Orchestra, and Elora Singers.

Marie-Andrée Mathieu, mezzo-soprano

Quebec mezzo-soprano Marie-Andrée Mathieu delights audiences with her agile voice and great musical expressiveness.

Named “Jeune espoir lyrique québécois” by the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques, she has been invited to sing in Germany, China, Slovakia and Italia. She also won the first prize at the Concours d’art lyrique de la Relève musicale de Québec.

A native of Quebec City, Marie-Andrée Mathieu holds a master’s degree in classical singing performance from Université Laval, which she obtained with honours. Also trained in piano and guitar, the young woman is a versatile musician. Since her debut on stage, she has performed a wide variety of musical styles, including Brazilian music and French songs.

Nils Brown, tenor

Nils Brown has performed, and continues to perform extensively on the concert and opera stages of North America; with the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Aradia Ensemble, Tafelmusik in Toronto, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Vancouver, Edmonton Symphonies, Calgary Philharmonic, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Florida Orchestra, and Jacksonville Symphony. He values greatly his experience as guest artist with great choral societies including Montreal’s Choeur St. Laurent, the Bethlehem Bach Choir, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Ottawa Choral Society,and the Vancouver Bach Choir.

Ilya Poletaev, fortepiano

A musician with a fiercely inquisitive mind, impeccable technique and an intensely poetic vision, Ilya Poletaev is an artist equally at home on the modern piano or on historical keyboards: harpsichord, fortepiano, and chamber organ. Hailed as “one of the most significant pianists of his generation” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he launched his career after capturing First Prize at the prestigious International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2010 — the only Canadian ever to win that competition. He has since appeared at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Dresdner MusikFesttäge, Potsdam Musikfestspiele, Leipzig BachFest, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Montreal Bach Festival, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Chamber Music Society, St. Paul’s Ordway Center, Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, Caramoor Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and many other prestigious venues and festivals across Canada, US, Italy, Romania, Germany, and Russia. He also was the Grand Prize winner of the 2008 Concorso Sala Gallo in Italy, a laureate of the 2008 Canadian Stepping Stone, a top prize-winner at the 2007 SEHKS harpsichord competition, and a prize-winner at the 2011 George Enescu Competition in Bucharest.

Program
SCHUBERT
Conviviality
Die Geselligkeit, D. 609
Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes, D. 710
An die Sonne, D. 439
Gott der Weltschöpfer, D. 986
Der Tanz, D. 826

The Great Departure
Gott im Ungewitter, D. 985
Hymne an den Unendlichen, D. 232
Das Abendrot, D. 236
Begräbnislied, D. 168
Das Grab ist tief und stille, D. 330

Celestial Beauty
Chor der Engel, D. 440
Des Tages Weihe, D. 763
Der 23. Psalm, D. 706
Ständchen (Serenade), D. 920
Viel Tausend Sterne prangen, D. 642

Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 2:30pm
To purchase your tickets, visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/