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Opening Concert - La persistance, l’éphémère
Studio théâtre, Édifice Wilder
This first concert of the anniversary season will offer a vibrant tribute to one of the great composers of our time, Harrison Birtwistle, who passed away last spring. The NEM will perform Secret Theater, which had its Montreal premiere in 1994. Also on the program are Las Meninas (excerpt) by John Rea, a work for piano orchestrated for the NEM by François Vallières, as well as the premieres of Contingency Icons by Samuel Andreyev and La persistance, l’éphémère by Tomás Diaz Villegas, the NEM’s composer-in-residence.
Conductor
Lorraine Vaillancourt
Discover a vibrant tribute to the English composer Harrison Birtwistle, along with new works in this enriching program.
Program
QC
Canada
QC
Canada
QC
Canada
Having won numerous prestigious awards throughout his career and being highly sought after by various organizations, composer John Rea sees his works performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He explores a wide variety of genres: chamber music, musical theater, electroacoustic music, stage music, and works for large ensembles such as symphony orchestras, ballets, choirs, and opera. He also writes about music and has published many articles.
For more than twenty years, his reorchestration (1995) for twenty-one musicians of Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck, Op. 7—commissioned and premiered by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne—has been presented around the world in more than a dozen new productions. He also completed a reorchestration for twenty-eight musicians of Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, thanks to a commission jointly awarded by the Musikkollegium Winterthur (Switzerland) and the NEM.
Until the year 2019, John Rea taught composition, music theory, and orchestration at McGill University, where he was the dean of the Faculty of Music (1986-1991), now the Schulich School of Music. He co-founded two music societies in Montreal (Les Événements du neuf and Traditions musicales du monde) and was a member of the artistic committee of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec for twenty-five years. The Society named him Composer of the Year for its Hommage series during the 2015-16 season.
Tableaux de Las Meninas
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Having won numerous prestigious awards throughout his career and being highly sought after by various organizations, composer John Rea sees his works performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He explores a wide variety of genres: chamber music, musical theater, electroacoustic music, stage music, and works for large ensembles such as symphony orchestras, ballets, choirs, and opera. He also writes about music and has published many articles.
For more than twenty years, his reorchestration (1995) for twenty-one musicians of Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck, Op. 7—commissioned and premiered by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne—has been presented around the world in more than a dozen new productions. He also completed a reorchestration for twenty-eight musicians of Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, thanks to a commission jointly awarded by the Musikkollegium Winterthur (Switzerland) and the NEM.
Until the year 2019, John Rea taught composition, music theory, and orchestration at McGill University, where he was the dean of the Faculty of Music (1986-1991), now the Schulich School of Music. He co-founded two music societies in Montreal (Les Événements du neuf and Traditions musicales du monde) and was a member of the artistic committee of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec for twenty-five years. The Society named him Composer of the Year for its Hommage series during the 2015-16 season.
Tableaux de Las Meninas
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Canada
Canada
Canada
Contingency Icons
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Contingency Icons
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Colombia
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Colombia
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Colombia
La persistance, l'éphémère
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La persistance, l'éphémère
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United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Secret Theater
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Secret Theater
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Date and place
Studio théâtre, Édifice Wilder
Édifice Wilder - Espace danse
1435 Rue de Bleury
Montréal QC H3A 2H7
Canada