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Launch of Michael Oesterle’s new album, Montréal-Hanovre concerts and European tour
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Michael Oesterle's new album release

We are delighted and so proud to launch on Collection QB a portrait album of Michael Oesterle: Quatuors - a testimony of 25 years of friendship and musicmaking.

A walk down memory lane: 20 years ago, Michael wrote Daydream Mechanics for us. We recorded it on our first record, Portrait Montreal, in 2004. Since then, we've played it nearly 100 times, from Indonesia to Japan, Iceland to Argentina. One of those memorable concerts took place on September 11, 2001, in Jonathan Goldman's old loft on St-Laurent Blvd.

Playing this music today is a return to our roots, with reminiscences of the past. It has accompanied us through so much and accumulates layers of stories and anecdotes! It is one of those pieces that have defined our ensemble. Every moment of Daydream is engraved in the quartet's DNA. And in every turn of phrase, we find Michael: his natural and sharp musical sense, his compositional expertise, and of course, his unclassifiable humor! 

We are absolutely thrilled to have Daydream  back on record alongside his three other quartets for a portrait album to be released on Collection QB on April 16, 2022! Available for pre-order on Bandcamp now – and just in time for Bandcamp Friday tomorrow.
 
Michael Oesterle has been exploring the sound of the string quartet through a catalog that spans from 1998 to 2019. Brilliantly constructed, his music is playful, intimate, sentimental, and demanding.

Daydream Mechanics  is inspired by the book Mécanique jongleuse  by Québec poet Nicole Brossard and explores hypnotic figures, playing on the border between memory and perception. String Quartet No. 3 "Alan Turing"  is a tribute to the English scientist and his free spirit whose creative potential we have irretrievably lost. Serious or playful, the colorful and evocative pieces of Three Pieces for String Quartet  have as a common thread endangered animals. Finally, his most recent String Quartet No. 4, is a large-scale work with a calm and sprawling style. And as in all his music, the search for balance in the musical materials, which are geometric and expressive, is at the forefront.
 
Montréal-Hanovre evening concerts

New music encounters in performance in Résonance croisée - part 2 with the Vivier


On April 15th and 16th, Quasar Saxophone Quartet and the Quatuor Bozzini  will be sharing the stage of Espace Orange in the Édifice Wilder with two German contemporary music ensembles for Montreal-Hanovre evening concerts, presented in Part 2 of Résonance croisée, a project initiated by the Vivier Group.

Montreal-Hanovre reflects a creative dialogue, an exchange, between Quasar, the Quatuor Bozzini and the musicians of ur.werk and Flex Ensemble, from Hannover. For the event, works were commissioned from Canadian and German composers by each of the ensembles. With six international premieres and three Canadian premieres on the programme, Montreal-Hanovre will be a showcase for the newest and most innovative works of contemporary music and a celebration of the immeasurable value of creative exchange and of collaborations between artists and the public.

On Friday, April 15th, beginning at 7:30 PM, Quasar and Flex Ensemble will kick things off with two concerts highlighting the contrasting sounds of the two ensembles. Anna Szulc-Kapala of Flex ensemble will join Quasar for the performance of a work by George Aphergis for saxophone quartet and viola in which one receives the impression of listening to a pack of animals facing their prey, the latter of which is manifestly the viola.  

On the following evening, Saturday April 16th, Quatuor Bozzini and the ur.werk ensemble will take the stage with two impressive programmes of variable geometries. Virtuoso accordionist Snezana Nesić will join the Quartet for the Canadian premiere of the Gordon Williamson quintet, fragile reconstructions. Benjamin Scheuer's music: playful and clamorous, will transport us into a dreamlike and surreal world, while the fragility of ecosystems is evoked by the works of Michael Oesterle. The evening will also mark the launch of Quatuor Bozzini's latest album on the QB Collection, dedicated to the quartets of Michael Oesterle.

Pieces from : George Aperghis, Tjarbe Björkson, Márton Illés, Jean Lesage, Snezana Nesic, Michael Oesterle, Ofer Pelz, Gérard Pesson, Annette Schlünz, Benjamin Scheuer, Johannes Schöllhorn, Andrew Staniland, Gordon Williamson

"More than ever, we are aware of the importance of getting closer, of exchanging and collaborating with our colleagues and friends on the international scene. Montreal-Hanovre is part of a fraternal artistic approach based on dialogue between musicians, composers, the public and all the people who make these exchanges possible." Marie-Chantal Leclair, artistic director and saxophonist, Quasar Saxophone Quartet and Stéphanie Bozzini, violist, Quatuor Bozzini
 
In conversation with Michael Oesterle
 
Coming up: No Hay Banda, European tour and Suoni per il Popolo with Christian Wolff

No Hay Banda invites several artists (Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Paramirabo, Sarah Albu + Vikram Sarkissian (voice), Amy Horvey + Stéphane Beaulac (trumpets), Felix del Tredici + Matthew Russell (trombones) to perform and celebrate the work of iconic Argentinian-Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis on April 3 at 8pm at Sala Rossa. A special documentary screening about Paraskevaídis at Sala earlier that afternoon at 1pm.

We’re leaving on a jet plane in April! Trans-atlantic exchanges are in full swing. We are headed to Germany to Norddeutscher Rundfunk Radio as Part 2 of our Montreal-Hannover exchange. In the same trip we embark on a new edition of Composer’s Kitchen with our partner organization nyMusikk in Norway. Click here for profiles of our participant composers. And finally, after more than two years of waiting, we will meet again our colleagues Caroline Bergvall, Kim Myhr and Ingar Zach for a concert at Maijazz in Stavanger featuring works that we created together on the albums pressing clouds passing crowds and floating layer cake.

Something’s brewing... plans for Festival Suoni per il Popolo 2022 are underway with the presence of guest artist Christian Wolff, stay tuned for more details!
 
Our latest albums
Album Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson : Combinations

Tom Johnson uses numbers as base material, turning formulas, combinations and other mathematic phenomena into music. And somehow, this music becomes poetry, sometimes like a haiku, sometimes like a sonnet, sometimes descriptive and clear, often enigmatic but always beautiful.

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"… played with characteristic precision, brio, and warmth by Montréal’s Quatuor Bozzini…"

Alvin Lucier Navigations

Alvin Lucier : Navigations

These words, spoken by Pauline Oliveros, remind us of how fundamental an influence Alvin Lucier has had on the development of new music and its interpretation; they remind us of our role as explorers of sound, and of the irresistible appeal that Lucier’s world has always had for our quartet. We have had the pleasure and honour of working with Alvin on several occasions, playing his music even more often. When he asked us in the winter of 2020 to release recordings of a Montréal concert from 2015, we decided to devote a new album to this music. It is with excitement that we now dedicate this disc to him! — Isabelle Bozzini


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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.

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