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Louise Bessette plays Messiaen with the NACO.
On Thursday, January 16th and Friday, January 17th, 2003, at 8 pm, pianist Louise Bessette will be the guest of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Duain Wolfe, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. They will be performing Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine by Olivier Messiaen. Mr. Jean Laurendeau will be playing the ondes Martenot.
In the second part of the concert, Maestro Pinchas Zukerman will conduct Mozart's Requiem K626 (National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa Choral Society, Iwan Edwards, music director, Cantata Singers of Ottawa, Laurence Ewashko, music director).
Louise Bessette is a renowned specialist of Messiaen's piano music. The Conseil Québécois de la Musique awarded her the Prix Opus 1996-1997 in the category “conductor or soloist of the year” for her recital devoted to the Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Her repertoire includes most of Messiaen's works with orchestra: Turangalîla-Symphonie, Oiseaux exotiques, Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine; as well as his piano works: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, Catalogue d'oiseaux, La Fauvette des Jardins, etc. Her discography includes, in addition to the Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Atma Classique, 2000), the first of a series of recordings of Giacinto Scelsi's piano music (Mode Records, 1999), numerous other solo recordings (CBC Records, SNE), as well as chamber music recordings (Riche Lieu, Fonovox, Doberman-Yppan, Analekta, SNE, Disques Montaigne, Sony Music Special products, etc.).
Louise Bessette has been named Member of the Order of Canada in October 2001 for her exceptional contribution to the contemporary music world.
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Other releases:
- Louise Bessette and l'Automne Messiaen at the gala for the Opus Awards
- Louise Bessette in Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton
- Louise Bessette's concerts in October 2009
- Louise Bessette's concerts in September and October 2008
- Welcome to Automne Messiaen!
- Wavre, Ottawa and Saint-Irénée
- Summer Concerts With Signs Of The Fall To Come
- Olivier Messiaen and a world premiere by Nicolas Gilbert
- Louise Bessette celebrates the centennial of Olivier Messiaen
- Louise Bessette and Les Oiseaux Exotiques
- Louise Bessette's fall activities
- Louise Bessette is going to China
- Music lovers are invited to renew the pleasure of hearing the formidable pianist Louise Bessette in two very different settings during the month of September 2007.
- Louise Bessette at the Maison Trestler and at Sainte-Pétronille
- New Recording Release – Gilles Tremblay - Louise Bessette - Ensemble Aventa
- Pianist Louise Bessette at the Salon Musicora in Paris, presented by the Conseil québécois de la Musique
- Louise Bessette and Esprit Orchestra
- Pianist Louise Bessette on CBC Radio Two and Espace Musique
- World Premiere by Serge Arcuri - Louise Bessette and I Musici de Montréal
- 49th Annual Piano Technician's Guild Convention and Technical Institute
- Louise Bessette and Aventa Ensemble
- Louise Bessette's Upcoming Activities
- Master class with pianist Louise Bessette / Concours International de piano XXe siècle d'Orléans
- Homage to Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
- Louise Bessette Appointed Officier of the Ordre National du Québec
- Louise Bessette at the CCA
- Les oiseaux exotiques. In Montreal and Toronto
- Radio-concert for Easter. Carillons éternels with Louise Bessette
- Duo Bessette-Daoust
- Summer in Concert! Louise Bessette, piano
- Tango Diablo!, a solo recital by the pianist Louise Bessette
- CBC Young Composers National Competition
- Louise Bessette and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
- Louise Bessette plays Messiaen with the NACO
- Louise Bessette in concert: December 2002
- Louise Bessette in concert: October 2002
- Oliver Messiaen: Louise Bessette and Håkon Austbø, pianists
- Louise Bessette, member of the Order of Canada
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