A delicious program of musical miniatures with the colours and perfume of France, Russia and Spain.

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CONCERT IS RESCHEDULED TO JULY 24, 2022

Following a minor injury, the concert featuring Stéphane Tétreault and Sandra Murray has been postponed from Sunday, July 17 to Sunday, July 24. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Salle de l’Entrepôt. 

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we thank you for your understanding.    

NEW CONCERT DATE 

Sunday July 24, 2022 at 7:30pm

Location: Salle de Spectacle L’entrepôt

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If you had tickets for July 17, they are valid for the new date. 

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Thank you in advance for your courtesy!

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• Concert: IGA Extra Vallée

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Biographies

STÉPHANE TÉTREAULT

Holder of countless prizes and distinctions, Stéphane Tétreault is the recipient of the 2019 Virginia-Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. He is also the winner of the Opus Prize “Performer of the Year” for the 2020-21 season, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique and accompanied by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2018, he received the “Maureen Forrester Next Generation Award” from the Stratford Summer Music Festival in recognition of his sensitivity, mastery of his instrument and his great qualities as a communicator. In 2015, he was chosen in the Gautier Capuçon “Classe d’Excellence de violoncelle” of the Louis Vuitton Foundation and received the “Career Development Award” from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. In 2013, he received the very first “Fernand-Lindsay Career Grant” from the Father Lindsay Foundation as well as the “Choquette-Symcox Prize” from Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. Winner of First Prize at the 2007 Standard Life-OSM Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, he has been named “Radio-Canada Revelation” in classical music, “Discovery of the Year” at the Opus Prize and “Personality of the Week”. by the daily La Presse.

Appointed first soloist in residence of the Orchestre Métropolitain, Stéphane performed with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, among others, during the 2014-2015 season. In 2016, he made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin and performed at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During the 2017-18 season, he took part in the Orchestre Métropolitain’s first European tour with Maestro Nézet-Séguin and made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Stéphane has shared the stage with many famous musicians including Maxim Vengerov, Alexandre Tharaud, Jan Lisiecki, Louis Lortie, Roger Vignoles, Marc-André Hamelin, Charles Richard-Hamelin and conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Paul McCreesh and many others.

His first album, on the Analekta label, recorded with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec under the direction of Fabien Gabel, was awarded the “Editor’s Choice” by the prestigious Gramophone magazine. In 2015, he signed a second album, on works by Haydn, Schubert and Brahms with pianist Marie-Ève ​​Scarfone, which ended up on Gramophone’s list of the best albums of the year “Critic’s Choice 2016”. In 2017, Stéphane joined harpist Valérie Milot and violinist Antoine Bareil to produce a recording devoted to trios for violin, cello and harp. His three albums all received nominations in the Classical Album of the Year category at the Gala de l’ADISQ.

Stéphane studied for over 10 years under the tutelage of the late cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky. He holds a master’s degree in interpretation from the University of Montreal. Stéphane plays on the Stradivarius cello “Countess of Stainlein, Ex-Paganini” that dates from 1707, which was generously loaned to him by Madame Sophie Desmarais.

SANDRA MURRAY

Sandra Murray is currently pursuing a brilliant career as a pianist. He has been heard in particular in the Pro Musica and Debut series, at the Orford Arts Center, at the Lachine Festival and at the Lanaudière International Festival. She has also performed with several orchestras and is heard frequently on Radio-Canada. As a chamber musician, she has played with several artists such as Yossif Ivanov, Yeonathan Berick, Jonathan Crow and the Alcan Quartet.

As a member of the piano duo Ouellet-Murray, she toured for the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, performed at the Festival international de Duo-Piano du Québec, the Festival Orgue et couleurs de Montréal, the Festival de musique des Basses -Laurentides and performed a “Jouer dans l’île” tour in Montreal. In the spring of 2001, the duo released their second album on the Riche Lieu label.

For several years, Sandra Murray has been a guest at the Orford Arts Center where she works as a pianist, notably for the classes of János Starker, Paul Katz, Robert Langevin, James Campbell and Laurence Lesser.

Thanks to grants from the Quebec Ministry of Culture, Sandra Murray took part in the first international chamber music meeting in Jerusalem, working with Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern and Yefim Bronfmann. Then, she goes to Italy to deepen the vocal repertoire.

Trained with Carlos Feliciati at the Chicoutimi Music Conservatory, Sandra Murray obtained her piano and chamber music prizes there. Subsequently, her studies took her to the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in the class of Julian Martin. Then, she returned to Montreal where she obtained a master’s degree from McGill University under the direction of Dale Bartlett.

Sandra Murray is currently a teacher-accompanist at the Montreal Conservatory of Music.

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