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CAM Touring Program : Horror Music
This concert entitled “Horror Music” presents three works that will make the audience discover unprecedented musical sonorities produced by a string quartet!
23 February @ 15:00 – 16:30CAM Touring program : Horror Music
This concert entitled “Horror Music” presents three works that will make the audience discover unprecedented musical sonorities produced by a string quartet!
20 February @ 19:30 – 21:00CAM Touring Program : Horror Music
This concert entitled “Horror Music” presents three works that will make the audience discover unprecedented musical sonorities produced by a string quartet!
16 February @ 14:00 – 15:30Hommage to Elizabeth Sprague-Coolidge
The Molinari Quartet pays tribute to the great American arts patron Elizabeth Sprague-Coolidge who recognized and encouraged important composers of the beginning of the 20th century. Thanks to her vision and generosity, musical masterpieces were composed. The Quartet will perform two works that sh…
31 January @ 19:30 – 21:30Music from the Balkans
Music from the Balkans Ana Sokolovic : Commedia dell’arte Snezana Nesic : Running Thoughts R. Murray Schafer : Quartet no. 11
13/12/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:30Dialogue on the Plateau : Music from the Balkans
This workshop enables the public to familiarize itself with the quartet repertoire by direct exchanges with the musicians. The Quartet plays excerpts, comments and analyses the works and gives historical and musical references. This Dialogue will discuss the works that will be performed on Decembe…
08/12/2019 @ 15:00 – 16:30Les corps avalés
The Molinari Quartet joins the celebrated dance Compagnie Virginie Brunelle for an exciting event of dance and live music. The Quartet will perform works by Barber, Shostakovich, Glass and Górecki among others. Discover an intoxicating world where chaos and despair live side by side with beauty and…
05/11/2019 @ 20:00 – 21:00Les corps avalés
The Molinari Quartet joins the celebrated dance Compagnie Virginie Brunelle for an exciting event of dance and live music. The Quartet will perform works by Barber, Shostakovich, Glass and Górecki among others.Discover an intoxicating world where chaos and despair live side by side with beauty and …
03/11/2019 @ 15:30 – 16:30Family event : Sons et brioches : Le grenier des Molinari
Climb up into the attic and discover the astounding quartet that can translate paintings into… music! Sebastian lives with his grandfather, who is a great admirer of Québec artist Guido Molinari. He has collected so many of Molinari’s paintings that the whole house is bursting, right up to the …
13/10/2019 @ 11:00 – 12:00The Quartet According to Górecki
The Molinari Quartet presents « The Quartet According to Górecki » Wednesday September 25 at the Montreal Conservatory. The complete quartet cycle by Polish composer Henry Mikolaj Górecki will be played while 3 works by renowned painter Marc Séguin will been exhibited on stage. The evening …
25/09/2019 @ 19:00 – 21:30Dialogue sur le Plateau : Le Quatuor selon Górecki
This workshop enables the public to familiarize itself with the quartet repertoire by direct exchanges with the musicians. The Quartet plays excerpts, comments and analyses the works and gives historical and musical references. This Dialogue will discuss Henryk Górecki’s three string quartets tha…
22/09/2019 @ 15:00 – 16:30The Quartet According to Scelsi
Concert of the complete string quartets by Giacinto Scelsi Quartets nos 1 to 5 Each movement will be preceded by a poem in French by Scelsi, taken from his collection of poems “L’homme du son” and recited by celebrated Quebec comedian Jean Marchand.
03/05/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:30Molinari in the Attic
The Molinari Quartet in coproduction with Jeunesses musicales Canada presents the young audience concert “Molinari in the Attic” at Bourgie Hall of the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal. Quatuor Molinari Olga Ranzenhofer, violin Antoine Bareil, violin Frédéric Lambert, viola Pierre-Alain Bouvet…
01/05/2019 @ 10:00 – 11:00Molinari in the Attic
The Molinari Quartet in coproduction with Jeunesses musicales Canada presents the young audience concert “Molinari in the Attic” at Bourgie Hall of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Quatuor Molinari Olga Ranzenhofer, violin Antoine Bareil, violin Frédéric Lambert, viola Pierre-Alain Bouvette…
30/04/2019 @ 10:00 – 11:00Dialogue on the Plateau : The Quartet According to Zorn
The complete string quartets by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988). Analysis, discussions and musical excerpts Quartets nos 1 to 5
28/04/2019 @ 15:00 – 16:30Music to See : Françoise Sullivan. Hommages.
Surrounded by the works of the exhibit François Sullivan. Hommages. the musicians of the Molinari Quartet will play some of their favourite works of their 2018-19 season. It’s with great pleasure that they welcome back harpist Valérie Milot to perform the beautiful and colourful Theseus for stri…
13/04/2019 @ 15:00 – 16:30Benefit Event
The Molinari Quartet invites you to its annual benefit event Tuesday April 9 2019 at 6 pm at the Guido Moinari Foundation, under the honorary chairmanship of Mr Richard Lupien. Surrounded by the exhibit Françoise Sullivan. Hommages. join us for a Molinari Quartet performance, a cocktail, a silent a…
09/04/2019 @ 18:00 – 21:00Against War and Tyranny
Quatuor Molinari Louise Bessette, piano Jean Marchand , narrator R. Murray Schafer (1933) : Quartet no.3 Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) : Un adieu Silvio Palmieri (1957-2018) : Prélude XI : Elevazione (Disperate vibrazioni raschiano il silenzio) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Die eiserne Brigade (La b…
14/03/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:30Music for Quartet and Harp
The Molinari Quartet and harpist Valérie Milot present a concert in the series Ensembles en résidence of the Montreal Conservatory of Music. The programme includes works for solo harp, string quartet and works for string quartet and harp. Claude Debussy : Danse sacrée et danse profane Arvo Pärt…
15/02/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:00Concert of the winners of the Molinari Quartet’s Seventh International Composition Competition
Concert of the winners of the Molinari Quartet’s Seventh International Composition Competition. Concert, results and prizes Preston Beebe : Beneath Trees Jongsung Oh : HAYDN for string quartet Menelaos Peistikos : For Sun’s Light Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete : Douleur exquise
01/02/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:30Dialogues on the Plateau : Winners of the Molinari Quartet’s Seventh International Composition Competition
Discussions, analysis, musical excerpts and meeting with the winners of the Molinari Quartet’s Seventh International Composition Competition Preston Beebe : Beneath Trees Jongsung Oh : HAYDN for string quartet Menelaos Peistikos : For Sun’s Light Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete : Douleur exqui…
29/01/2019 @ 19:30 – 21:00Molinari in the Attic
The Molinari Quartet in coproduction with Jeunesses musicales Canada presents the Young audience concert Molinari in the Attic for the Sons and Brioches series of Aramusique in Repentigny. Quatuor Molinari Olga Ranzenhofer, violin Antoine Bareil, violin Frédéric Lambert, viola Pierre-Alain Bouvett…
20/01/2019 @ 11:00 – 12:00Music to See : Guido Molinari
Music to See series at the Molinari Foundation. Surrounded by beautiful paintings by Guido Molinari, the Molinari Quartet comments and performs works from its repertoire. Works TBA
15/12/2018 @ 15:00 – 16:30Czech Music
Bohuslav Martinů : Quartet no.2 Leoš Janáček : Quartetno.2 Pavel Haas : Quartet no.2
07/12/2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30Dialogue : Czech Music
This workshop enables the public to familiarize itself with the quartet repertoire by direct exchanges with the musicians. The Quartet plays excerpts, comments and analyses the works and gives historical and musical references. Bohuslav Martinů : Quartet no.2 Leoš Janáček : Quartet no.2 Pavel …
02/12/2018 @ 15:00 – 16:30Kaleidoscope : Music by Quinsin Nachoff
The Molinari String Quartet, violinist Nathalie Bonin, NYC musicians Mark Helias and Satoshi Takeishi, conductor JC Sanford and Toronto vibraphonist Michael Davidson get together to perform the music of Quinsin Nachoff. NYC-based Canadian composer and saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff has earned a repu…
24/11/2018 @ 19:30 – 21:30The Quartet According to Zorn
Cat O’Nine Tails (1988) The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String Quartet Memento Mori (1992) (Ignotium Per Ignotius – The Unknown By Way Of The More Unknown) Kol Nidre (1996)
05/10/2018 @ 19:30 – 21:00Dialogue : The Quartet According to Zorn
This workshop enables the public to familiarize itself with the quartet repertoire by direct exchanges with the musicians. The Quartet plays excerpts, comments and analyses the works and gives historical and musical references. Cat O’nine Tails (1988) The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String…
30/09/2018 @ 15:00 – 16:30Gala Concert of the 2018 Graham Sommer Competition for young composers
The concert and prize gala will take place on September 29, 2018 in Pollack Hall at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. If you can’t attend, you’ll be able to watch the webcast! Pianist Sara Laimon and the Molinari Quartet will work with our 2018 competition finalists and perfor…
29/09/2018 @ 19:00 – 21:30Schafer@85 Music and Beyond
On the day of R. Murray Schafer’s 85th birthday, the Molinari Quartet celebrates the composer by performing his quartets nos 1, 3 and 7. Soprano Aline Kutan joins the musicians in Quartet no.7
18/07/2018 @ 14:00 – 16:00