Montreal Bach Festival
The Montreal Bach Festival is an annual music festival, celebrating the music of the German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. It takes place in November and December, in Montreal (Quebec, Canada).
Description[edit]
Since its creation in 2005, the Montreal Bach Festival presents each year during three weeks over 30 concerts of local and international musicians, workshops, conferences and a children's concert.
Based on three main missions, performance, education and research, the festival makes the legacy of Bach more accessible for the students and professionnals as well as for the audience. Through concerts and educative programs, it presents internationnally renown artists as well as renown Quebec artists.
The Montreal Bach Festival[1][2] is now one of the most important festival in North America puting the spotlight on Johann Sebastian Bach.
Numerous international artists came to the festival, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Musica Antiqua Köln and his artistic director Reinhard Goebel, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin[3], Masaaki Suzuki, I Musici di Roma, Julian Prégardien.
Over the years, the festival also presented Quebec artists such as Les Violons du Roy, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Ensemble Masque, Suzie LeBlanc, Daniel Taylor or Luc Beauséjour.
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are official partners of the festival.
History[edit]
2005 : Creation of the Montreal Bach Festival by Alexandra Scheibler. The festival presents for its first edition the legendary Musica Antiqua Köln with Reinhard Goebel[4].
2007 : The festival presents renowned ensembles from Quebec such as Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Les Idées heureuses.
2009 : The festival becomes an annual event and continues to grow. It lasts from now on two weeks and presents for the first time the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
2010 : This edition is highlighted by the concert of Jean-Guihen Queyras[5] who came to play Bach's Solo cello Suites for the closing concert and by the show of Red Bull Flying Bach, the break dancing event based on The Well-Tempered Clavier.
2011 : The festival presents a jazz concert with Uri Caine who reinvents the Goldberg Variations.
2012 : The festival presents the Dutch harpsichordist Léon Berben who has played the Goldberg Variations and the Collegium Vocale Gent directed by Philippe Herreweghe.
2013 : This edition is highlighted by the first edition of the Night of the Choirs during which Montreal's leading amateur choirs take turns on the stage during the night. This festival is also highlighted by artists such Concerto Köln, Suzie Leblanc, Daniel Taylor, and the guitarist Göran Söllscher.
2014 : This edition is highlighted by the first invitations of artists to the festival who will become regular like Sergei Babayan, Masaaki Suzuki, Avi Avital.
2015 : For the first time, the festival presents a concert for children, in which music and stories carry on a dialogue, with the members of the Orchestre de l'Agora and the young conductor Nicolas Ellis. From this date, this concert will become annual.
2016 : The festival celebrates its 10 years anniversary. For this occasion, the festival welcomes the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma for its closing concert at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
2017 : The festival presents Bach's B minor Mass performed by the Collegium 1704, an orchestra from Prague, as well as a concert with the German tenor Julian Prégardien and the pianist Tamar Halperin.
2018 : The 12th edition of the festival is highlighted by the creation of the festival's own orchestra, the Orchestre Festival Bach Montréal (OFBM), which bring together well-known musicians from here and abroad along with international artists invited by the festival. This edition is also highlighted by the closing concert of the festival which has seen the return of Yo-Yo Ma came to perform Bach's Six solo cello Suites at the Maison symphonique de Montréal. At the same time, this concert has been live broadcasted on a large screen[6] at Saint-James united Church.
2019 : The 13th edition of the Montreal Bach Festival will take place from November 22 to December 7, 2019. It will present artists such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, The Knights, Maurice Steger, Christian-Pierre La Marca. It will also see the beginning of the Off-Festival Bach, a fringe programme with lots of free events in a space in Montreal downtown.
References[edit]
- ↑ "quartierdesspectacles.com".
- ↑ "mountainlake.org".
- ↑ "Festival Bach: des ensembles réputés et diversifiés". La Presse.
- ↑ "Montréal aura son Festival Bach". Le Devoir.
- ↑ "Musique classique - Jean-Guihen Queyras raconte les Suites de Bach". Le Devoir.
- ↑ "Yo-Yo Ma se dédouble". Le Devoir.
External link[edit]
Montreal Bach Festival Official Web Site
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