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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Lvnement de la saison!

Yannick Nzet-Sguin la direction de lOrchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam soliste : Viktoria Mullova, violoniste
Club musical de Qubec, le 20 fvrier

Lvnement musical de la saison !
Le CLUB MUSICAL DE QUBEC prsente, pour la premire fois Qubec, le spectaculaire maestro qubcois Yannick Nzet-Sguin la direction de lOrchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam avec, comme soliste invite, la clbre violoniste Viktoria Mullova, le samedi 20 fvrier prochain la salle Louis-Fchette du Grand Thtre de Qubec. Ce concert est offert en coprsentation avec le Grand Thtre de Qubec.

Aprs des dbuts retentissants au MET, le 31 dcembre dernier, voil que samne en nos murs le flamboyant chef dorchestre Yannick Nzet-Sguin avec la Philharmonique de Rotterdam dont il est le directeur artistique. Qubec sera donc l'hte d'un vnement unique: la rencontre au sommet de deux hros de la musique. Lui la tte de cette vritable force de la nature, elle avec lun des grands concertos du rpertoire. Le Concerto pour orchestre de Bartk et le Concerto pour violon et orchestre de Brahms contrairement celui de Tchakovski, qui avait t pralablement annonc seront leurs chevaux de bataille, le temps d'une soire. ne pas manquer!

En 2010, les plus GRANDS se succdent toujours au Club musical de Qubec, dans ce concert exceptionnel avec lOrchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam, Yannick Nzet-Sguin et la violoniste Viktoria Mullova, le 20 fvrier, au Grand Thtre de Qubec.

Il reste encore QUELQUES bonnes places pour ce concert. Les billets sont en vente la billetterie du Grand Thtre de Qubec, en composant le 643-8131 ou 1-877-643-8131 ou encore dans le rseau BILLETECH (billetech.com).

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Htu, Ravel, Bruckner (Programme modifi pour le concert de Rivire-des-Prairies)

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Premire Mondiale du Concerto pour deux guitares de Jacques Htu

Montral, mercredi le 6 janvier 2010 Jeudi prochain, le 14 janvier, Rivire-des-Prairies, lOrchestre Mtropolitain prsentera la premire excution mondiale du Concerto pour deux guitares de Jacques Htu.  Ddie lminent guitariste et pdagogue Paul Gerrits qui lavait command, cette uvre sera joue en hommage au compositeur.

Il sagit du sixime programme de la saison de lOrchestre Mtropolitain, prsent dans le cadre de sa tourne en arrondissements. Le concert aura lieu la salle Dsilets du Cgep Marie-Victorin Rivire-des-Prairies.  En plus du Concerto dHtu, ce programme modifi mettra lhonneur lenchantement de Ma mre lOye de Ravel et la complexit de la premire Symphonie de Bruckner.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : Ma mre lOye, suite (version orchestrale)
Jacques Htu (1938 - ) : Concerto pour deux guitares (op. 77)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) : Symphonie n 1 en do mineur


Sous la direction du Maestro Yannick Nzet-Sguin, le Concerto pour deux guitares dHtu sera interprt par le Duo des Concertants, compos de Marc Deschnes et Andr Roy. Puis, la fantaisie et lexotisme seront au rendez-vous avec la suite Ma Mre lOye de Ravel, qui sera joue dans sa version orchestrale. Enfin, mme si la Symphonie n 1 dAnton Bruckner recle une imptuosit romantique qui fait songer Liszt ou Schumann, une personnalit profondment originale saffirme dans ce fascinant voyage des tnbres vers la lumire.


Noubliez pas la confrence prparatoire gratuite une heure avant le concert !


Ce concert spcial sera prsent  :

Rivire-des-Prairies, Cgep Marie-Victorin                
       14 janvier, 20h00                             Billets : 514-872-9814

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Yannick Nzet-Sguin Makes his EMI Classics Debut with an All-Ravel Programme

International release: November 2009 (US and Canada: January 12, 2010)

5099996634226 (CD); 5099996634257 (Digital download)

The dynamic young French Canadian Yannick Nzet-Sguin has been setting audiences alight

with his electrifying interpretations. (Evening Standard)

The exciting young conductor Yannick Nzet-Sguin, who succeeded Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra last season, makes his EMI Classics debut with the Orchestra in an all-Ravel programme. The repertoire features the composers greatest orchestral works: Daphnis et Chlo Suite No. 2, Valses nobles et sentimentales, La Valse and Ma mre lOye.

The name Yannick Nzet-Sguin has been on the tongues of music lovers on both sides of the Atlantic in recent months following his acclaimed appearances at the BBC Proms and the Mostly Mozart Festival (New York), as well as his debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra He drew vibrant performances from the orchestra, at once structurally coherent and viscerally exciting. (Boston Globe), Los Angeles Philharmonic In complete command of everything, Nzet-Sguin brought out interesting details in every phrase. (LA Times), the Wiener Symphoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Nederlandse Opera Under him, the unrelenting chain of monologues, dialogues and histories became exciting metamorphoses of instrumental colours, moods, and passionate expressions.(Trouw) Following a recent concert with the Rotterdam Philharmonic at Amsterdams Concertgebouw Hall, the Limburgs Dagblad wrote, The highest honour goes to Nzet-Sguin. The unequalled amount of energy and momentum he put into the [music] made this performance an event of which people will still ask each other in a few years' time: Were you there?"

For Nzet-Sguin, Maurice Ravel is the greatest orchestrator French music has ever had: Its all about colours Yannick says, and the contrast between intimacy and grandness, La Valse being one of his greatest and most powerful symphonic poems and the Valses nobles et sentimentales being much more intimate (Ķ).Daphnis and Chloe is one of his most uplifting and triumphant works while Ma mre LOye is so intimate. This disc explores the enormous variety of Ravels orchestral music through three of his particular themes: his fascination with childhood; his interest in the culture and character of Ancient Greece; and a near obsession with waltzes of all kinds. Indeed the collection is suffused with dance, ballet and rhythmic energy.

Yannick Nzet-Sguin (b Montreal, 1975) studied piano, chamber music, composition and conducting at the Conservatoire de Musique du Qubec and choral conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J. He took master classes with leading conductors, among them Carlo Maria Giulini. After receiving the Virginia-Parker Award in 2000, he was invited to conduct all the major Canadian orchestras. He continues to work regularly with the Toronto Symphony and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Victoria Symphony from 2003-2008.

Nzet-Sguin made his European debut in 2004 with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, following which he was invited to appear with the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Frankfurt and Flemish Radio symphony orchestras, the Sydney Symphony, Scottish Chamber and Northern Sinfonia. He is now a regular guest conductor of many important orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic and has received an unbroken string of re-invitations from every orchestra with which he has worked.

In the 2008/2009 season, Yannick Nzet-Sguin succeeded Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and became Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2000, he has been Artistic Director of the Orchestre Mtropolitain in Montreal, where he has won many awards for his work and has recorded for the Canadian company ATMA Classique. In London, in May 2009, he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Young Artist category.

In 2008, Nzet-Sguin led the Rotterdam Philharmonic on a Far East tour and made his Salzburg Festival debut in a new production of Romo et Juliette with a cast led by Rolando Villazn, a production that was released on DVD earlier this year. As an opera conductor, he has also worked with L'Opra de Montral, Nederlands Opera and Barcelona Opera, among others. He makes his Metropolitan Opera debut in Bizets Carmen on New Years Eve 2009. Other forthcoming debuts include La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Yannick Nzet-Sguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic plan to focus on French repertoire in the coming seasons, particularly the works of Ravel and Debussy, making this album a perfect introduction. In February 2010, they will tour North America, including two concerts at New Yorks Lincoln Center.

The next two projects by Yannick Nzet-Sguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra scheduled for release by EMI & Virgin Classics are the Beethoven and Korngold violin concertos performed by Renaud Capuon (October 2009) and opera transcriptions with flautist Emmanuel Pahud (March 2010).

Ravel's Ma mre l'Oye was fairytale-like, frivolous and sophisticated, like sultry swirls of summer wind that evoke memories from a far past in a Proustian way. (NRC following a performance with the Rotterdam Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw Hall in May 2009)

www.yannicknezetseguin.com

www.emiclassics.com

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