Press release
For immediate distribution
Louise Bessette and Aventa Ensemble
On Friday, May 19, 2006, at 8 pm, at the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall (University of Victoria, BC), pianist Louise Bessette will perform Envoi, a concerto for piano and fifteen instruments by Gilles Tremblay with the Aventa Ensemble, conducted by Bill Linwood. Written in 1982, thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, the piece was commissioned and premiered by Claude Helffer and the Societe de musique contemporaine du Quebec in February 1983.
Louise Bessette will also perform two pieces for solo piano: Fragments (1997) by Serge Arcuri and Prelude VIII: Il giorno della mia morte (1998) by Silvio Palmieri; and we will also hear the Aventa Ensemble performing Alonetogetherall (1992) by Michel Gonneville, as well as Solstices (ou Les Jours et les saisons tournent) (1971) by Gilles Tremblay.
The Aventa New Music Society, under the artistic direction of Bill Lindwood, was founded in 2003 to fill a need in Victoria for a professional ensemble capable of performing a wide range of modern repertoire.
Friday, May 19, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
University of Victoria, Mac Laurin Building
3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC
$15 / $12
Tickets: (250) 721-8480
Info: (250) 721-8559
http://www.aventa.ca/upcoming.htm
- 30 -
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
 |
PRESS