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Since 1999, the Quatuor Bozzini has been an original voice for new, experimental and classical music.
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A multiform evening of live music and video projection, co-presented with Le Viverduring La Semaine du neuf
Linda Bouchard/Huei Lin:Torrents (je suis en feu), 2024 *
(amplified string quartet, fixed medium and video)
Pierre Jodlowski: 60 loops, 2006
(amplified string quartet, and fixed medium)
Luke Nickel: Supreme Chains, 2024 *,**
(amplified string quartet, fixed medium and video)
* premiere, commissioned by Quatuor Bozzini with the support of Canada Council for the Arts
** with the support of Manitoba Arts Council
Espace Orange - Édifice Wilder
1435, de Bleury street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2H7
March 12th, 9pm
Pre-concert talk with the artists 8:15pm
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Linda Bouchard’s Torrents, is a film with live string quartet and recorded sound, fruit of a multi-year collaboration with Quatuor Bozzini and videographer Huei Lin. Inspired by maritime signals, Torrents integrates the ideas of communication and relationships, singularity and multiplicity, granular and smooth. Pierre Jodlowski’s 60 Loops investigates the interaction between machine and human gestures in a Steve Reich-like minimalism, eventually superimposing 40 quartet lines in a dynamic and hypnotic progression. Luke Nickel’s Supreme Chains is another world premiere written for Quatuor Bozzini, where films of virtual and impossible roller coasters produced by the composer interact with the string quartet.
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Teaser of Torrents (2024) by Linda Bouchard andHuei Lin
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In rehearsal for Supreme Chains by Luke Nickels ©Camille Gladu-Drouin
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Linda Bouchard ©Linda Bouchard
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Canadian-born Linda Bouchard has lived most of her adult life in the USA while carrying an active career on both sides of the Atlantic.
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In 1978, she went to study with Henry Brant au Bennington College, a mentor who had a tremendous impact on her. She pursued a Master’s degree in composition at the Manhattan School of Music and proceeded to lived in New York City through the 80s where she composed, led
contemporary music groups and opera and made orchestral arrangements for churches and ballet companies. She has composed over 90 works in a variety of genres, from orchestral and chamber works to dance scores, concerti, vocal pieces and multimedia theatrical works.
You can read about Torrents (i am on fire) here.
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Pierre Jodlowski ©Gilles Vidal
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Pierre JODLOWSKI is a composer, performer and multimedia artist. His music, often marked by a high density, is at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound and is characterized by dramatic and political anchor. His work as a composer led him to perform in France and
abroad in most places dedicated to contemporary music as well as other artistic fields, dance, theater, visual arts, electronic music.
Read about 60 loops here.
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Luke Nickel ©Ja Der
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Luke Nickel is an award-winning Canadian interdisciplinary artist, composer, and researcher currently living in Berlin, Germany.
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His works knot together themes of memory, transcription, translation, queer identity, technology, and impossible roller coasters. In addition to orally-transmitted music compositions, he creates traditionally-notated musical works, audiovisual performances, installations,
videos, and texts.
Learn more about his piece Supreme Chains here.
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Huei Lin ©Huei Lin
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Hueiis a writer, musician and video artist from New York. His professional work in the film industry, combined with formal training as a classical musician, has led him to pursue various forms of media, including screenwriting, directing and composing. As an author, his work consists of short fiction and non-fiction narratives. Recurring themes in his work are impermanence, modern life and belonging. In 2019, two of his short stories were selected as semi-finalists and finalists in the William Faulkner Literary Contest and the Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award Competition, while other works of fiction have been published by RCN Media.
Translated with DeepL.com (free veion)
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In rehearsal for Torrents by Linda Bouchard | Huei Lin ©Camille Gladu-Drouin
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Destination Netherlands and United Kingdom |
On March 13, we're off to Europe! This will be an opportunity to reconvene and meet up with the young artists from the Conservatories of The Hague and Birmingham, and resume our residency work begun in the autumn. Concerts and workshops on March 15th and March 19th. Former Composer's Kitchen participants will be in the spotlight for our concert at Dag in de Branding Festival on March 16th. We will also be joined by our colleagues Yannis Kyriakides (electronics) and Andy
Moor (electric guitar) for a performance of hypnokaséta, a piece that we premiered and toured with them in 2022. On March 17th, QB makes its first appearance at Moderne Muziek Nijmegen with works by Michael Oesterle and Merijn Bisschops. In Birmingham, a BBC concert will feature premieres and works by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire professors on March 18th. The tour concludes in Aldeburgh - Snape Maltings with a week of masterclasses, lessons and workshops where the quartet will teach
up-and-coming young performers during the Britten Pears Young Artist Program ‘Chamber Futures’. A final concert closes the week-long residency.
Full concert details on our website.
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New release |
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Do you remember the Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard piece we premiered in 2023, in which the quartet doubled up, each playing a harmonica in addition to the strings? The Colliding Bubbles album is now available on the label Important Records!
And speaking of records: March 1st is Bandcamp Friday! Get out there on the platform and support our artists!
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