Les sommets du romantisme

The height of Romanticism; the music of Mendelssohn and Brahms performed by Andara and Antonin Cuerrier.

Quatuor Andara (2 violin, alto, cello)

Antonin Cuerrier, clarinet

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Introductory talk: Caisse Desjardins de Lachine

Concert: Caisse Desjardins de Lachine

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Schedule

Introductory talk animated by Richard Turp 15 minutes before the concert.

Biography:

Quatuor Andara

It was in September 2014, around Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F major, that the members of the Andara Quartet – Marie-Claire Vaillancourt (violin), Jeanne Côté (violin), Vincent Delorme (viola) and Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy (cello) – met for the first time at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the tutelage of Denis Brott. Since then, their passion, dynamism, quality of playing and unique repertoire have earned them critical acclaim across Canada and internationally.

The Andara Quartet is the University of Montreal’s Junior Ensemble-in-Residence from 2021 to 2023, a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Ensemble-in-Residence, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival’s 2019 Career Development Residency Ensemble. Winners of several first prizes at national competitions between 2015 and 2019, the quartet members participated in the first ever Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam where they performed for members of the Emerson Quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga, Signum Quartet and Danel Quartet, among others. Numerous other high-profile international clinics have allowed them to work with musicians such as Günter Pichler, Mathieu Herzog and the Talich String Quartet at the 2018 edition of MISQA, the St. Lawrence String Quartet in Stanford (CA) in the summers of 2018 and 2017, Johannes Meissl and the Shanghai Quartet at the Pablo Casals Festival in France in 2017 as well as Barry Shiffman and Mark Steinberg at the Banff Chamber Music Residency in 2016. The group released its first self-produced album “Across the Americas” in the summer of 2021. In the fall of 2022, the Andara Quartet will release its second album entitled “De mille feux” with the Leaf Music label.

Marie-Claire plays on an Andrea Guarneri violin from Cremona (1660) and a Hill & Sons bow, Jeanne plays on a Carlo Antonio Testore violin (1710) and a Marcel Lapierre bow (1950), and Dominique plays on a David Tecchler cello (1704) and a Pierre Simon bow (c. 1855), all courtesy of Canimex Inc. of Drummondville (QC), Canada.

Antonin Cuerrier

Principal clarinet of the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville and clarinet teacher at the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau, Antonin Cuerrier has made a name for himself on the Montreal and Quebec scene, playing on several occasions with most of the regional orchestras as well as with the Orchestre des Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Orchestre symphonique de l’Agora and Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime. He plays regularly as a chamber musician, notably with the CASSIOPÉE ensemble and appeared as a soloist with the Sinfonia de Lanaudière in 2021.

Having performed Carl Maria von Weber’s Concerto in F with orchestra since the age of 16, this clarinetist graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and more recently perfected his skills in Germany and Switzerland with Chen Halevi at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen and Romain Guyot at the Haute école de musique de Genève, learning classical clarinet with Ernst Schlader. His stints with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, the National Academy Orchestra, the Orford Academy and Domaine Forget have forged his talent with such luminaries as Charles Neidich, Yehuda Gilad, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Wenzel Fuchs and Walter Seyfarth. This diligent work has earned him a number of scholarships and awards, including the prestigious Hnatyshyn Scholarship in 2014 and the DAAD Prize of the Trossinger Wettbewerb in Germany in 2016.

In addition to being a seasoned performer, Antonin Cuerrier cultivates a strong interest in philosophy and political science and has been involved in several student associations, boards of directors and artistic projects as manager, music librarian and administrator. He has been working at the JFP Foundation as coordinator since 2019 to make music education accessible to all. 

He has also had the opportunity to teach his passion at the Conservatoire de Gatineau, Collège Notre-Dame, Joseph-François-Perrault school, and the Asbestos, CAMMAC and Père Lindsay music camps.

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