On Wednesday August 4, 2021 at 8 pm, at Place des Festivals (Québécor stage), this concert is sure to stir your senses as it explores fragmented worlds, integrating the chords of Indigenous contemporary pop, rap, soul and folk and new music. Defying all pre-established notions, Transmission is an audacious collaborative experiment of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM) and Forestare, in association with the International First Peoples’ Festival and Musique Nomade. 

With Anachnid, Laura Niquay, Q-052, Forestare and the NEM.

Recorded in June 2021 at Salle Pierre-Mercure and presented in partnership with the Azrieli Foundation, the album “Nouvelle Musique Juive, Vol. 3: Prix Azrieli de musique 2020” was released on October 1, 2021 with the label Analekta.  

It’s February 15, 2021. At the Abbaye d’Oka, sound rises and circulates between the tall columns as the instrumentalists play the first movement “The Mask Falls” of Speaking in Tongues (1993) by composer Melissa Hui.

The NEM musicians, conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt, are playing this movement as a tribute to the past year.