The Molinari Quartet presents a three day event around composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh.
Round table discussion : Folklore in contemporary music.

The music of Ali-Zadeh is very much influenced by Azerbaijani music as well as by the national music of neighboring countries. The guests will discuss the place and use of national music and influences in contemporary music.

The Molinari Quartet presents the complete string quartets by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh including the world premiere of a new string quartet especially written by Ali-Zadeh for the Molinaris.

Composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is an internationally renowned composer whose works create bridges between the music from her native South-Western Asian roots and Western music. It is a great honor for us that she accepts to write a quartet for us.

The concert will be preceded by a conference (in French) entitled Ali-Zadeh : Tisser le Levant et le Couchant that will be given by Nicolas Jobin.

Surrounded by the works of the «Chromatopia» exhibition by Jean-Maxime Dufresne and Virginie Laganière, the musicians of the Molinari Quartet  will perform works by Dimitri Shostakovich and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. For those who missed the February 15th premiere of «Farewell» by Ali-Zadeh or who want to hear once more this very moving work, here is your chance!

The first concert of the season in the Twentieth and Beyond series is entitled Passages and features works from the two most important string quartet cycles written in the 20th century, Bartók and Shostakovich's.

“Canadian Rhythms,” features three Canadian works with lively rhythms. From composer Kelly-Marie Murphy, you will hear Dark Energy, a work commissioned as a compulsory piece for the Banff International String Quartet Competition. R. Murray Schafer's Fourth Quartet is a three-movement work whose middle movement is a fireworks display of sixteenth notes. Blair Thompson's first string quartet, «Internesses», will be premiered at this concert.