Emerging Voices in Music Creation
The OSM invites you to an exceptional encounter between the musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and three young composers. Each will have the exceptional opportunity to have a new work read by the OSM, an orchestra of international renown, under the direction of its music director, Rafael Payare. For the public in attendance, this will be a free opportunity to discover three previously unpublished compositions and to plunge into the creative process, from the emergence of a musical idea to its symphonic fruition. An opportunity not to be missed by fans of contemporary music and innovative sounds!
The OSM invites you to an exceptional encounter between the musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and three young composers. Each will have the exceptional opportunity to have a new work read by the OSM, an orchestra of international renown, under the direction of its music director, Rafael Payare. For the public in attendance, this will be a free opportunity to discover three previously unpublished compositions and to plunge into the creative process, from the emergence of a musical idea to its symphonic fruition. An opportunity not to be missed by fans of contemporary music and innovative sounds!
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Ana Sokolović, host
Program
Frédérique Le Duc-Moreau, Unquiet Man
Samuël Fecteau, Skrylâno
Alexis Raynault, Ensemble
Jacques Hétu, Légendes, op. 76 : III. La chasse-galerie (2007)
This project is made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Ann Birks and the Ariane Riou and Réal Plourde Foundation.
Rafael Payare
Music DirectorDistinguished by innate musicianship, a gift for communication, and an irresistibly joyous spirit, conductor Rafael Payare began playing horn in Venezuela’s El Sistema program at age 14 and started his formal conducting studies in 2004 with José Antonio Abreu. Since winning Denmark’s prestigious Malko Competition for Young Conductors in 2012, his career has advanced rapidly. He was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014 to 2019; has served as Principal Conductor of the Castleton Festival, founded by his mentor the late Lorin Maazel, since 2015; became Music Director of the San Diego Symphony in 2019, and three years later became Music Director of Canada’s Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. In recent years, Payare has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including those of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich, Hamburg, and Paris, besides making important opera debuts at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Glyndebourne Festival; Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera; and the Royal Danish Opera.