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TICKETS
A Series
Pass for all the Main Events Series
Adults: 220$
Seniors: 160$
Students (25 and under): 70$
Main Concerts
Adults : 35$
Seniors : 25$
Students : 10$
Friday June 20th at 7:30pm
La Traversée Miraculeuse
Location : Hangar 16, Quais du Vieux-Port
Artists : Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer; Meredith Hall (soprano); Lisa Ornstein (Quebec fiddle); David Greenberg (Nova Scotia fiddle); La Nef.
Traditional Scottish and Quebecois music from the 18th century, as passed down through aural tradition to the 21st century. A concert illustrating the Anglo-French struggle for supremacy in this colonial outpost in the New World.
Friday June 20th at 9:30pm
Chinoiseries
Location : Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours
Artists : Qian Yi (soprano); Samantha Louis-Jean (soprano); Youping Wu (dizi and percussions), Wen Zhau (pipa), Fang Ye (percussions), Yang Guiying (make up artist) and Les Voix Humaines.
Montreal Premiere! Love songs from 17th century France and China. Kun Opera, banished in China during the Cultural Revolution, will be heard for the first time in Montreal at this concert! Chinese decorative arts became the rage in Europe during the 17th century and Chinoiserie was the décor of choice for harpsichords! Chinese pastries will be served.
Saturday June 21st at 5:30pm
I Mercanti di Venizia!
Location : Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours
Artists : Les Boréades de Montréal and Les Voix Humaines' Consort
Venetian 17th century music by Bassano, Rossi, Cima and Fontana for winds, violins, viols and pluckers.
Saturday June 21st at 7:30pm
Klezmer: Venezia-Varsovie
Location : Cirque Éloize / Gare Dalhousie
Artists : Budowitz Ensemble (Budapest-Berlin)
BENEFIT CONCERT
Budowitz (Budapest, Berlin & New-York) ‘period’ Klezmer band on 19th century instruments. Concert followed by a dance party with caller Avia Moore
Sunday June 22nd at 5:30pm
Bach Cantatas: Tribute to Glenn Gould
Location : Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours
Artists : Monika Mauch (soprano-Germany); Daniel Taylor (countertenor); the Bande Montréal Baroque, Eric Milnes (conductor).
Montreal Baroque offers a concert of Bach cantatas dedicated to Glenn Gould directed by Eric Milnes. The Bande Montréal Baroque will be joined by soloists Monika Mauch and Daniel Taylor. Cantatas BWV 170 and 210 will be performed.
Sunday June 22nd at 9:30pm
SAFFRON SOIRÉE: Tabla d'Haute
Location : Cirque Éloize / Gare Dalhousie
Artists : Pandit Sharda Sahai (Tabla); Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi).
BENEFIT EVENING
World renowned virtuoso tabla and sarangi players in a recital of Indian “classical” music. Pandit Sharda Sahai is a descendant of the first tabla virtuoso born in Banares, India, in 1775.
Monday June 23rd at 8:00pm
CARRIBEAN SOIRÉE Versailles Voodoo!
Location : Hangar 16, Quais du Vieux-Port
Artists : Samantha Louis-Jean (soprano), Chris Coyne (tenor), Jean-François Gagon (actor), Ensemble Diolkidi (percussions), Oswald Duran (Haitian flute), Ensemble Caprice; Jeanty, Jocelyne Saint-Leger (choregrapher) and Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière (choregrapher and stage director).
Afro-French cultural history of Haiti through the music and dances of the Chevalier de St George, Rousseau, Rameau and Grétry and Voodoo dances and music.
B Series
Intimate Concerts
Adults : 20$
Seniors : 15$
Students : 10$
Sunday June 22nd at 7:00am
Chinese Letters
Location : Bell tower, Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours
Artists : Wen Zhao, pipa; Lucas Harris, lute (Toronto) and an actor.
Lute and Pipa illustrate the novel by Canadian Ying Chen : love letters between Montreal immigrant, Yuan, and Sassa in Shanghai. Note: 90 steps to climb!
Sunday June 22nd at 7:30pm
SAFFRON SOIRÉE Ohso Square, or the Calcutta market!
Location : Cirque Éloize / Gare Dalhousie
Artists : Notturna Ensemble (Montreal's newest group)
BENEFIT EVENING
British East India Company employees’ creative musical life as revealed in a vast library of 18th century letters.
Monday June 23rd at 3pm
Planxty O'Carolan
Location : Galerie Pangée
Artists : Ensemble La Cigale; Marie Magistry (soprano).
18th century Irish music by celebrated Irish harpist, O’Carolan, performed by one of Montreal’s newest groups.
Monday June 23rd at 5:30pm
CARRIBEAN SOIRÉE Le Coulicam, Persian King!
Location : Galerie Pangée
Artists : Masques Ensemble
Ensemble Masques is coming of age! The complete book of Rameau’s "Pieces de clavecin en concert" will be performed by Montreal’s young artists. Rameau was one of the most popular composers amongst the French colonialists in Haiti during the 18th century.
C Series
Free admission!
Saturday June 21st:
10:00AM
ATELIER-CONFERENCE Chinoiseries
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Shuni Tsou and Wen Zhao
11:00am
CONFERENCE: Haitian classical music?
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Claude Dauphin, speaker
12:00PM
ATELIER Fiddlers' Fayre
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : David Greenberg
2:00PM
ATELIER What's this Klezmer?
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Tamas Gombei and Joshua Horowitz from Budowitz Ensemble
3:00PM
ATELIER An Indian improvisation
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Pandit Sharda Sahai and Shawn Mativetski, tabla
Sunday June 22nd:
10:00AM
ROUND TABLE Gould-berg Variations
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Luc Beauséjour, Bruce Haynes, Amy Horvey, Bernard Lagacé, Oleksander Mycyk, Yaron Ross, Vivienne Spiteri, Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor (moderator).
For the anniversary of a Canadian legend, the incomparable pianist, philosopher and film-maker, Glenn Gould! Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor, harpsichordist, musicologist and Gould expert will be joined by international guests to talk about Gould’s influence on the Baroque movement and performance of Bach .
2:00PM
Gould, the Renaissance Man!
Location : Château Ramezay
Artists : Rachelle Taylor, virginal.
Rachelle Taylor will perform, and comment on, some of Gould’s favourite music by Byrd, Gibbons.
3:00PM
Gould au Cinéma
Location : Château Ramezay
Archives rares CBC et LAC Extasis (SRC) Glenn Gould : Au-delà du temps (ARTE) Glenn Gould L’Alchimiste (ORTF)
D Series
Fayre's events are free. Look at the daily program...
TO BUY TICKETS
1. BEFORE THE FESTIVAL :
• Here, our electronic ticket counter
• By sending an e-mail
• By mail :
Festival Montréal Baroque, 3589, rue Sainte-Famille, Montréal (Québec) H2X 2L2
• By phone : 514.845.7171 ; 1.866.845.7171
2. DURING THE FESTIVAL
• Ticket counter at the Fayre (Place de la Dauversière), Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22, from 13h to 16h30
• At the door of the concert halls, one hour prior to the concert
• By phone : 514.845.7171 ; 1.866.845.7171 |
