Transfiguration

Event details

Friday | 14 July 2023
19:30
L’Entrepôt 2901, boul. Saint-Joseph, Lachine
Free admission (ticket required) | Suggested donation: 10$

Transfiguration, the new and acclaimed concert-experience featuring the duo Tétreault-Milot – with lighting and projections!

Stéphane Tétreault, cello

Valérie Milot, harp

Presented by:

Beauchamp Laplante – Cabinet de services financiers

Martin et cie – comptables professionnels agréés

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Schedule

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

Biography

Valérie Milot, harp

Valérie Milot is a musician and entrepreneur who makes her way off the beaten track. A sought-after soloist, Valérie regularly performs a rich concert repertoire with renowned orchestras. In parallel, his YouTube channel has over three million views on his musical performances. His numerous collaborations (with Marianne Lambert, soprano, and Stéphane Tétreault, among others) mark a vast discography and frequent appearances on stage, on radio and television. Valérie is a harp teacher at Montreal Conservatory of Music, in addition to being the holder of an award with Great Distinction at the end of his studies with Caroline Lizotte (2008). Winner of Prix d’Europe the same year, she is moreover the first harpist in almost 100 years of earning this honor. Several awards followed one after the other, including Radio-Canada Revelation of the Year.

Valérie plays an “Apollonia” harp from Salvi, courtesy of the company Canimex of Drummondville, owned by patron Roger Dubois.

Stéphane Tétrault

Holder of countless awards and distinctions, Stéphane Tétreault is the recipient of the 2019 Virginia-Parker Prize from the Council of arts of Canada. He is also the winner of the Opus 2022 Prize for “Performer of the Year”, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique and accompanied by a grant from the Canada Council of Arts.

In 2016, he made his debut with the Orchestra of Philadelphia, under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin, and he performs at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During of the 2017-18 season, he took part in the Orchestra’s first European tour Metropolitan with Maestro Nézet-Séguin and makes his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. His first album on the Analekta label, recorded with the Orchester symphonique de Quebec under the direction of Fabien Gabel was awarded the “Editor’s Choice” of the prestigious Gramophone magazine. In 2015, he signs a second album, on works by Haydn, Schubert and Brahms with the pianist Marie-Ève Scarfone who finds herself on the list of the best albums of the year Gramophone’s Critics’ Choice 2016. Stéphane plays on the Stradivarius cello “Countess of Stainlein, Ex-Paganini” of 1707, generously lent to him by Mrs. Sophie Desmarais.

Program

Double-Monologue	François Vallières (1978-)
Trois variations sur La Folia I. Aria II. Promenade III. Ahmad* *avec la participation de Bernard Riche à la batterie	Alexandre Grogg(1979-)
Close for Couloir, opus 48 I. Cromlech (Ring O’Brodgar) II. Clans (Battle O’Harlaw) III. The Sodger An’ The Queen (Edinburgh Castle) IV. Gargoyle Sang (Melrose Abbey) V. Man to Man (The World O’er Shall Brithers Be For A’ That)	Caroline Lizotte (1969-)
Sentiment transfiguré	Marjan Mozetich (1948-)
D’un Cygne l’autre	Alexandre Grogg(1979-)
Si veriash a la rana	Kelly-Marie Murphy (1964-)