Bourgie Hall presents

Claude Debussy: Forgotten Images

This singular concert offers a musical retrospective of the life of Claude Debussy. Reinvented for cello and piano by two widely esteemed musicians, these Forgotten Images paint a timeless portrait of this significant figure in the history of music.

Artists
Stéphane Tétreault, cello

In addition to innumerous awards and honours, Stéphane Tétreault is the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and was a nominee for the Oscar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance from the Ontario Arts Council. He is also the laureate of the 2022 Prix Opus for “Performer of the Year”, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique and accompanied by a Canada Council grant. In 2018, he received the Maureen Forrester Next Generation Award in recognition of his sensitivities with music, his enviable technique, and his considerable communication skills. In 2015, he was selected as laureate of the Classe d’Excellence de violoncelle Gautier Capuçon from the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and received the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Career Development Award. Stéphane was the very first recipient of the $50,000 Fernand-Lindsay Career Award as well as the Choquette-Symcox Award laureate in 2013. First Prize winner at the 2007 Standard Life-Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, he was named “Révélation” Radio-Canada in classical music, was chosen as Personality of the Week by La Presse newspaper, and awarded the Prix Opus New Artist of the Year.

Chosen as the first ever Soloist-in-Residence of the Orchestre Métropolitain, he performed alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin during the 2014-2015 season. In 2016, Stéphane made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin and performed at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During the 2017-2018 season, he took part in the Orchestre Métropolitain’s first European tour with Maestro Nézet-Séguin and made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Stéphane was a student of the late cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky for more than 10 years. He holds a master’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Montreal.

Olivier Hébert-Bouchard, piano

A prizewinner of many international competitions, pianist Olivier Hébert-Bouchard’s success has led him to become one of the most sought-after recitalists of his generation on the Canadian scene.

A founding member of Trio Émerillon, Prisma and Memento Mori, Hébert-Bouchard also enjoys fruitful collaborations with several outstanding Quebec musicians, including flautist Ariane Brisson, clarinetist David Dias da Silva and cellist Stéphane Tétreault. His various projects have seen him perform at a number of events: Tanglewood on Parade, the Festival International du Domaine Forget, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center series, Nice’s Nuits magiques as well as the Orford Music and Music and Beyond festivals, to name but a few. Major organizations such as Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Astral Artists and Bargemusic have selected his projects for tours in Canada and the United States.

A native of Trois-Rivières, Hébert-Bouchard graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières with a prize of great distinction (awarded unanimously), and thanks to the financial support of the Manhattan School of Music, he continued his studies in the Big Apple, where he obtained his master’s in performance with distinction in 2011. He completed his training through advanced programs with internationally renowned pianists and pedagogues at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Austria), the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the International Summer Academy of Music in Nice and the Juilliard School. An ardent defender of contemporary music, he is committed to promoting the work of emerging composers and has performed several new works since he started his career. His talents as an arranger and his passion for lesser-known repertoire and hidden treasures have allowed him to push the boundaries of many chamber orchestras. Since September 2021, Hébert-Bouchard has been lecturing at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and at the Université de Montréal.

Program
FAURÉ
Après un rêve, from Trois mélodies, Op. 7, No. 1
En sourdine, from 5 Mélodies, Op. 58, No. 2
DEBUSSY
Images oubliées, L. 94
Scherzo, L. 39
Tarantelle styrienne, L. 69
Mazurka, L. 67
Lindaraja, L. 103
Masques, L. 110
D’un cahier d’esquisses, L. 112
Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon, L. 150
L’Isle joyeuse, L. 109

Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 7:30pm
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