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Raven Chacon event - QMP October 3 2025 , Montréal © Camille Gladu-Drouin
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"...the thing is fragile, time stands still, the combination of strings and saxophones tinkles delicately in the ears..."
- Bernard Vincken, Crescendo (Sept. 27 2025)
"La combinaison de deux quatuors — cordes et saxophones — permet d’explorer des combinaisons de timbres inouïes, ainsi que des jeux d’apparition et de disparition harmonique d’une finesse absolue."
- Geneviève Charras, L'amuse-Danse (Sept. 27 2025)
"...like exploring with a flickering torch, a network of underground cavities connected according to an ambiguous plan — a journey as persistent as it is intimate."
- Bernard Vincken, Crescendo (Sept. 28 2025)
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QMP Québec Tour
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Triple set with the Quatuor Mémoire et Drostanolone
Our Québec Musiques Parallèles tour runs from October 24 to November 2 in Matane, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Rimouski, Chicoutimi, and Lévis. We will be sharing the stage with our colleagues from Quatuor Mémoire—a young, emerging string quartet—and the duo Drostanolone (Éric Normand and Gueze) in Matane, Rimouski, and Lévis. For this tour, we reprise Steve Reich's Different Trains. In this seminal work of American minimalism, the amplified string quartet interacts with sound and vocal recordings. It juxtaposes Reich's intimate memories of train journeys in the United States with the horror of the Holocaust transport trains.
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Quatuor Bozzini, Quatuor Mémoire, Éric Normand, Gueze
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One-day amalgamation with students from the Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay in Chicoutimi
After a most enjoyable and stimulating first experience with Guylaine Grégoire and her students from the Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay string ensemble in October 2023, we are conducting another exploratory meeting featuring arrangements of works by Michael Oesterle and Ana Sokolović with these young aspiring musicians. The results will be presented in a public concert at the CEM in Chicoutimi on Saturday, November 1, 2025, at 8 p.m.
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Québec Musiques Parallèles is an alliance between Tour de Bras, Quatuor Bozzini, CEM, and E27 musiques nouvelles. With the support of numerous musicians, producers, and partners, QMP presents lively music that is unconventional, extraordinary, and always
intriguing.
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European Tour - New Horizons
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Our upcoming European tour will take us to new places, including our first appearance at the Rainy Days Festival in Luxembourg, a concert in Lugano (Switzerland) at the LAC, and a creative workshop at Cambridge University in the UK. We can't wait to discover all these new places!
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Duo Burrows-Fargion
It is with great pleasure that we will perform Any Table, Any Room, an enchanting musical theatre piece conceived by composer Matteo Fargion and choreographer Jonathan Burrows, blending gentle theatricality with musical textures, subtle ritual, and understated humor. The piece has inspired a new collaboration between long-time friends and artistic partners Fargion/Burrows and our quartet
for a six-person encounter around a brand new version of the work. A meditation on attention, collaboration, and the magic of being together in a room together. At Rainy Days, Luxembourg, on November 20.
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Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion © Alastair Muir
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Open Oor Prize
Canadian composer Martin Arnold is the recipient of the Open Oor Prijs, and we are proud to participate in the concert in his honor at NovemberMusic. The Amsterdam-based Trillende Lucht Foundation awards the Open Oor Prize every two years to composers who create their own unique soundscapes. It is an incentive award for experienced and aspiring composers who are not afraid to take risks. Previous
awards have gone to artists including Gilius van Bergeijk, Anna Korsun, and Éliane Radigue. Unconventional composers who, despite all trends, cling to and further develop their unique sound language.
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Next activities in November
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