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Return of the Focus concerts, canadian tour and Opus Awards winner
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Return of our Focus series!

March 17 at 8 p.m. - Sala Rossa - 4848 Boul. St-Laurent
Marc Sabat: Inner voice (2021) pour quatuor, guitare électrique et bande
Following the success of our Focus concerts, this year we present a concert dedicated to a creation by Canadian-Ukrainian composer Marc Sabat, with Berlin-based American musician Seth Josel on electric guitar. Marc’s piece, Inner voice (2021), is constructed on just intonation and explores the possibilities of layered harmonic variations between string quartet, electric guitar and electronics. Francis Battah and Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière, whose work focuses on microtonality, will enrich the mid-concert with a discussion animated by Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez. The Sala Rossa bar is now open and we hope to see you there before, during or after the concert to discuss!
What is a Focus concert?

A listening session, a contextualization, then a re-listening of the work to better discover it.

A piece is performed, afterwhich we invite you to participate in a discussion with the artists.

A second, "informed" performance follows, allowing you to hear the work once again with a new perspective. Experience the concert in a new and surprising way!
 
Two Mentions of excellence at the Opus Awards

We are delighted to announce that Quatuor Bozzini and Alissa Cheung have been awarded two Mentions of excellence at the 25th Gala des Prix Opus of the Conseil Québécois de la musique  for Webcast concerts and premieres 2020-2021. Alissa won the Mention of excellence for her creation "du nord" which we premiered and recorded at Salle Bourgie in April 2021. And our concert "Trip", presented live at L'Espace Orange in November 2020, won the Mention of excellence in the category "Modern, Contemporary Music". To celebrate, Bourgie Hall and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, who commissioned the piece, are making "Du nord" available for free broadcast from March 6 to April 3, 2022.
You can also listen to "Trip" on a webcast here.


On March 19th at 7:30 pm, we will be participating with our bowed strings at the 21st Century Guitar Conference in Indiana, whose events will take place online this year. We are very proud to present three creations for guitar and string quartet by Edward Essis-Breton, Émilie Girard-Charest and Kimia Koochkazadeh, commissioned for the occasion with the generous support of the Canada Council. Joining us will be guitarists Seth Josel and Bruno Gauthier-Bellerose.

Image: Kimia Koochkazadeh (crédit : Alastair Campbell), Edward Essis-Breton (crédit : Valérie Beaudrie) et Émilie Girard-Charest (crédit : Dominique Garcia)
Winnipeg - Toronto Tour

GroundSwell “The Future Ones”

March 22 at 8 p.m.
Winnipeg Arts Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd, Winnipeg
In our first appearance at GroundSwell, we will perform a concert of Canadian works, including two premieres by Jim Hiscott and Kris Wachniak. Also on the program are two new works by Alissa Cheung and Nicole Lizée, written for the quartet, and a piece by Tanya Tagaq. We have been planning this concert for several years, and after many postponements we are delighted to finally be able to travel to Winnipeg!

Program
Kris Wachniak : Corten poppies*
Tanya Tagaq : Sivunittinni
Jim Hiscott :  Skin*
Nicole Lizée : Hexbreakers
Alissa Cheung : du nord

*premieres

Image: Kris Wachniak (crédit : Natasha Kuzyk), Nicole Lizée (crédit : Murray Lightburn), Tanya Tagaq, Jim Hiscott et Alissa Cheung (crédit : Jeanette Sesay)
Du nord in Toronto

March 24-25 at 8 p.m.
The Music Gallery, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto
In a two night event, Montréal’s Bozzini Quartet and Toronto’s Continuum, in collaboration with The Music Gallery, present two in-person concerts of exceptional contemporary chamber music to welcome back our live audience for the first time in two years.

On March 24th, Quatuor Bozzini celebrates its return to Toronto with an all-Canadian program. Hot off the press, 'Hexbreakers' (2022) by Nicole Lizée features grooves and glitches performed by multi-tasking quartet musicians. Michael Oesterle’s String Quartet No. 3 ‘Alan Turing’ (2010) is inspired by lives of scientists; their focus and creativity, their work methods, and their adversity. We return to nature and a call to solidarity with Tanya Tagaq’s arctic landscapes in 'Sivunittinni' (2015) and with bird migration in 'du nord' (2020) by quartet member Alissa Cheung. 

On March 25th, Continuum presents Brush Line, a spectacular mixed chamber music concert featuring its internationally-renowned core ensemble in Commedia Della Musica (2017) by Jimmie LeBlanc, Cold mountains, one belt, heart-break green (2017) by Carolyn Chen, In Memoriam: Muhal Richard Abrams (2018) by Tyshawn Sorey and with mezzo-soprano Marion Newman in Linda Smith’s Brushline (2004, a Continuum commission). Also featured is Continuum’s 6th annual Teen Composer Award recipient, Britney Dawn Do, whose world premiere work can be heard in a pre-concert presentation at 7:45pm.

SMCQ: Jean Lesage with the soloist James Campbell  

Five years after a portrait concert of quartets by Quebec composer Jean Lesage, we are about to dive back into the poetic music of the composer for the concert La mémoire équivoque - Portrait de Jean Lesage, on March 27, 2022. For this occasion we have invited the eminent soloist James Campbell to join us to perform the clarinet quintet 'Le Jardin des Mélancolies' (1999). We performed the (ancient!) work back in 2000 in our very first season, and it is a great pleasure to be back with this work after 22 years! We will also be performing the premiere of Quartet No. 5.

James Campbell, photo by Mark Rash
All our projects are possible thanks to the financial support of our public partners, our artistic collaborators and presenters, and also to you, our dear audience.

Creation residencies, commissions, recordings, multidisciplinary projects, creation workshops (via the Composer's Kitchen, the Bozzini Lab, the Performer's Kitchen), educational workshops in primary and secondary schools, CEGEPs as well as universities, all benefit from this financial support.

Quatuor Bozzini is a registered charity and you will receive a receipt for your donation. Thank you for helping us bring these creative projects to life!

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