What a pleasure to be back with you this year! Of course, every season is a new departure and new beginning, but 2011–2012 is particularly special. After years of wandering from venue to venue, we’re pleased and proud to be able to welcome you in two new Montreal performance spaces: the eagerly awaited new hall at Place des Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ intimate Bourgie Concert Hall.

 

Our 2011–2012 Montreal season features three concert series.

 

At Place des Arts, the Grands Rendez-vous series features four major, must-see events: a night with the fabulous soprano Karina Gauvin, Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Saint John Passion with La Chapelle de Québec, and a performance of Mozart’s three last symphonies.

 

At Bourgie Concert Hall, the Arte Musica Foundation presents the Soirées Arte Musica and Concerts Espresso series: nine concerts featuring such prominent guests as conductor Jeanne Lamon, flautist Maurice Steger, soprano Shannon Mercer, and clarinettist Ricardo Morales. Each concert serves up a felicitous blend of familiar repertoire and special discoveries that will leave the most demanding listener craving more.

 

So many great opportunities to come out and share the love of music we live for! Be there to enjoy the brilliant musicians of Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec in these new venues. You’ll be thrilled with the acoustics and comfortable surroundings.

 

Come join us: all that’s missing is you!

 

Bernard Labadie