Trio des Collines

Not to be missed : the Festival début of this new, spectacular, Canadian trio.

Juan Gabriel Olivares, clarinet 

Carson Becke, piano

Cameron Crozman, cello

Presented by:

Introductory talk: CabinetDentaire.ca

Concert: CabinetDentaire.ca

Tickets required (Free | Suggested Donation $10)

• At the door 1 hour before each concert (40 tickets)
• On-line

Schedule

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

BIOGRAPHY

CAMERON CROZMAN

Named “Canada’s next big cello star” by the CBC and winner of the 2021 Virginia Parker
Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, cellist Cameron Crozman regularly performs
in Canada coast-to-coast as well as throughout Europe and the USA. He has appeared as
a soloist with the Paris Île-de-France, Montreal, Vancouver Island, and Winnipeg
Symphonies among others, and engagements have taken him everywhere from the
Paris Philharmonie to the Qidi Vidi Brewery of St. John’s, Newfoundland. An avid
collaborator and chamber musician, Cameron shares the stage with eminent artists such
as James Ehnes, Augustin Hadelich, André Laplante, and James Campbell.

Cameron was one of six cellists from around the world chosen to take part in Gautier
Capuçon’s 2016-2017 Classe d’Excellence at the Louis Vuitton Foundation. After studies
with Paul Pulford in Canada, he went on to receive his Master’s level in cello and

chamber music from the Paris Conservatoire studying cello with Michel Strauss and
chamber music with Claire Désert and Ami Flammer. Cameron’s debut album, Cavatine,
recorded on the ca. 1696 “Bonjour” Stradivarius cello with pianist Philip Chiu, was
released to critical acclaim in 2019. His most release, Tapeo, features a program of
Spanish-inspired music, also in collaboration with Philip Chiu.
Cameron is founder and artistic director of ClassicalValley – a festival pairing music and
wine in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia – and the Edeta Arts International
Chamber Music Festival in the UNESCO city of music Llíria, Spain.

JUAN GABRIEL OLIVARES

Juan Gabriel Olivares is a clarinetist, researcher, educator, and co-founder of
NewArt/NewMedia, a collective of Canadian artists committed to interdisciplinary
collaboration. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his musical explorations have taken him
across the Caribbean and North America from the southern United States to Canada.
NewArt/NewMedia is at the center of Juan’s creative output. Initially founded as a hub
for interdisciplinary initiatives, it has quickly evolved as a medium for live and digital
productions. Currently entering its third season, the goal of NewArt/NewMedia is to
disseminate ‘digital shorts’ exploring new musical composition in juxtaposition with
dance, visual, and theatrical commissions.
As an orchestral clarinetist, he has performed as principal with the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, and has
performed with conductors and soloists such as Renée Fleming, Leonard Slatkin, Peter
Oundjian, Robert Spano, Zubin Mehta, David Zinman, Sir Andrew Davis, and Riccardo
Muti. As a soloist, he was recently a guest artist at the Newport Jazz Festival and was
featured in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Le Rossignol.
Juan is also an active performer of contemporary classical music and has worked closely
with composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Matthias Pintscher, Stefano Gervasoni, Osvaldo
Golijov, Beat Furrer, Helen Grime, and Salvatore Sciarrino. Recently, he recorded
Pintscher’s Verzeichnete Spur with Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris, France, and
was nominated for a JUNO award with Against the Grain Theatre. He has toured Canada
with Thin Edge New Music Collective, premiered over 30 new works as a member of the
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and performed at the Klangspuren Festival in Austria
hosted by Ensemble Modern. He recently joined the F-PLUS trio,

a group that has toured the United States and commissioned works by composers like Jesse Montgomery and
George Tsontakis.
He began his musical career in jazz, folk, and improvised music in Miami, Florida, and
later studied classical music formally at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal
Conservatory of Music. While he was in Houston completing his master’s degree at Rice
University, he was the music curator for the Rice Art Gallery and toured to the
Dominican Republic as soloist and clinician of the Festival Clarinetissimo. His love for
contemporary music led him to a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Toronto
where his research articulated the intersection between contemporary classical music
and entrepreneurship. He co-directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Faculty
of Music and taught clarinet pedagogy. Juan is a Légère Artist and currently performs on
Buffet-Crampon clarinets.

CARSON PECKE

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canadian pianist Carson Becke (www.carsonbecke.com) has
performed worldwide. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK, and at
the University of Oxford, where he completed a doctorate in musicology. His recordings
can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. As a chamber musician, Carson
enjoys frequent collaborations with soprano Meghan Lindsay, violinist Carissa
Klopoushak, pianist Suren Barry as Duo Octavian (www.duooctavian.com), and with
clarinetist Juan Olivares and cellist Cameron Crozman as part of Trio des Collines. As an
arranger, he written transcriptions of music by Mendelssohn (Hebrides Overture – solo
piano), Puccini (Fantasy on themes from Tosca – solo piano), Holst (The Planets – piano
duo), Richard Strauss (Vier Letzte Lieder – piano and voice), and others.
Carson is committed to creating structural changes to the music industry in response to
climate change, and the resulting need to create more sustainable systems. His TedX
talk on this can be heard here. He is enacting those ideas through his directorship of the
Pontiac Enchanté concert series (www.pontiacenchante.ca). Environmental
sustainability is one of the cornerstones of its mission, and it is the first classical concert
series in Canada with a detailed Green Policy. Carson lived in the United Kingdom for
fifteen years: first in London, and then in Oxford. In 2019 he moved home to Ottawa,
and now lives in Wakefield, Quebec, with his partner Madeline, and their dogs Jerry and
Newman. In addition to his freelance performance work, he is on faculty at the
University of Ottawa as a part-time professor and is a co-director of the recently
founded Hills Winter Music Festival (www.hillsmusic.ca) in the Outaouais region.

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