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CBC Young Composers National Competition
On March 9th, 2003 at 7:30 pm, Louise Bessette will be performing one of the finalists’ works of the 15th CBC Young Composers National Competition: Les cendres d’un paysage éphémère by Maxime Després. Works by Charles-Antoine Fréchette and Matthew Rizzuto, as well finalists in the Piano category, will be performed by Louise-Andrée Baril and Olivier Godin. Works by Andriy Talpash, Analia Llugdar and Niklas Kambeitz will be featured in the Chamber Music category and performed by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (ECM) conducted by Véronique Lacroix. In addition to the program, Géométrie sentimentale by Ana Sokolovic (Grand prix of the Canada Council for the Arts du Canada in 1999). This concert will be followed by the prize-giving ceremony.
This concert is included in the programming of the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques, presented by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Music Faculty of McGill University, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and CBC Radio Two.
Salle Pierre-Mercure of the Centre
Pierre-Péladeau
300, Maisonneuve Est
(514) 987-6919
Free Admission
Solo Recitals
On March 27, 2003 at the Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal), 8 pm, and April 1st, 2003, at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (Toronto), 8 pm. Louise Bessette will perform three major works of the 20th century:
La fauvette des jardins by
Olivier Messiaen
Four Poems by Giacinto
Scelsi
Second Piano Sonata, “Concord,
Mass., 1840-1860” by Charles Ives.
This is the same program that she recently performed at the Conservatoire de Lausanne, as guest of the Société de musique contemporaine de Lausanne (Switzerland).
March 27th, 2003.
Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montréal
100, Sherbrooke Est
(514) 872-5338
April 1st, 2003.
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto
1-800-708-6754
www.music-toronto.com
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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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