A solo performance on Viola d’amore by Eyvind Kang.

Kang is a composer, violist and conductor who has has released many acclaimed albums on labels such as Tzadik, Ipecac, Abduction and Ideologic Organ, as well as worked on hundreds of recordings as an instrumentalist and arranger. 

His compositions have been played by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Seattle Chamber Players, MG_INC Orchestra, Coro di Camera di Modena, Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna, and the Israeli Contemporary Players, among other ensembles.

As a violist he has been featured by a wide range of independent musicians including Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, the Sun City Girls, and Secret Chiefs.  Kang has also performed solo pieces by Christian Wolff, Giacinto Scelsi, Ornette Coleman, Satyajit Ray, and Hanne Darboven. His ongoing, genre defying collaboration with composer and singer Jessika Kenney has been described as “serious, refined music”  (The New York Times), taking the form of sound actions and installations, choral and orchestral works, and minimalist vocal and string arrangement, with two releases on Ideologic Organ (2011, 2013) curated by Stephen O’Malley.

Quatuor Bozzini has been an original voice and strong advocate in new, experimental and classical music since 1999. Driving the hyper-creative Montréal scene and beyond, the quartet cultivates an ethos of risk-taking, experimentation, and collaboration, venturing boldly off the beaten track. With a rigorous eye for quality, they have nurtured a rich and diverse repertoire, regardless of trends. This has led to over 400 commissioned pieces, and some 500 premiered works. Their open, collaborative, artist-led approach has resulted in the realisation of numerous innovative and highly-praised productions, including inter-disciplinary projects with video, theatre and dance.

https://quatuorbozzini.ca

Quatuor d-occasion

Malcolm Goldstein – violin
Jean René – viola
Émilie Girard-Charest – cello
Nicolas Caloia – contrabass 

This music, for bowed string instruments, was composed by Malcolm Goldstein in 2018-19. The concert’s program will include the following structured improvisation compositions. They are intended as a process of discovery to be enacted within the structures of the particular performance activities which are specified for each piece.

The Quatuor d’occasion was formed in 2011 on the initiative of Malcolm Goldstein. Since then they have performed in most of Montreal’s experimental and improvised music venues. Meeting regularly for several years, the quartet’s musicians have developed a common discourse and created their own group sound.

Program:
Because a circle is not enough, music for bowed string instruments (2018-19)

Because a circle is not enough : an étude to focus the body/breath/gesture in relation to performed sound. Will be performed as a duo and by the entire ensemble.

reflections on a cavatina / adagio : phrases of timbrally varied, single sustained tones quietly expanded from a tonal centre.

Songs and interludes : a shifting of balance between tone and timbre phrases and events as rest points.

haiku sounding : songs with a structure analogous to the Japanese haiku form, transformed through the process of linkage to create a series of songs. To be realized by the full quartet and as a duet.

on and on and always slowly nowhere : Endless nuances within a single sound and gesture are revealed within a focused structure of long sustained bowings.

extraordinarily variable, this source : a flow of various fast staccato and spiccato articulations with modification of timbre and articulation, creating endless nuances within an on-going sound texture.

Statement and Responses : a structure that begins with several “statements” of brief timbre phrases analogous to spoken language, which then opens to “responses” of short phrases of repeated rhythmic patterns. Can also be realized as a dialogue between two musicians.

for the left hand alone : free-flowing and patterned rhythms performed with left hand pizzicato.

Storytelling : music that comes from the musicians’ experience(s) in life, recalled and realized in sound as episodes of sonic enactment.

décollage / collage : a melodic line that is endlessly transformed by omitting and replacing elements.

boundless the source, overflowing in song : the quartet musicians establish a texture derived from the performance activities explored in preceding pieces, from which each musician emerges with their own personal improvised song.

https://www.musiquerayonnante.org/quatuordoccasion.html

Tickets will be available only at the door, by donation.

An evening of improvised string exchanges featuring: Nicolas Caloia (double bass), Émilie Girard-Charest (cello), Parmela Attariwala (viola), Marina Hasselberg (cello), Lan Tung (erhu), Sina Ettehad (kamanche), Torsten Müller (double bass), and Josh Zubot (violin).