Souvenir de Florence

Andrei Feher has already earned a reputation for his musical maturity and integrity, natural authority on the podium, and an imaginative and intelligent approach to programming. At the age of 26 Feher was appointed as the new Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, a position effective from August 2018. From the 2025/6 season until the 2028/9 season, Feher was appointed Music Director of Orchestre Classique de Montreal.

Having gained early experience as assistant to Fabien Gabel at the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, at the age of 22 Feher joined the Orchestre de Paris as Assistant Conductor to its Music Director, Paavo Järvi. During this time he collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnányi, Thomas Hengelbrock and Jaap van Zweden, as well as regularly conducting the orchestra in their popular Young Public concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris. 

Recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Les Violons du Roy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Orchestre Métropolitain Montreal, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec and Orchestre Classique de Montreal. 

A strong advocate of contemporary music, Feher has recently performed works by Eric Champagne, Pierre Mercure, George Dimitrov, Ciprian Pop and Abigail Richardson, as well as the world premiere of Thierry Besancon’s opera for children Les Zoocrates with Opéra de Lausanne. In November 2015, Feher conducted the world premiere of Soleil Noir by Pierre Jodlowski with the Orchestre de Pau-Béarn, which resulted in an immediate invitation to conduct the work in Toulouse in November 2016. 

Born in Romania into a family of musicians, Feher began his musical education as a violinist in his hometown Satu-Mare before continuing his studies at the Montreal Conservatoire when his parents relocated to Canada.

Flutist Ariane Brisson never ceases to captivate audiences and critics with the finesse of her playing and the sincerity of her interpretations, seizing every opportunity to surprise and offer a unique voice on the musical scene. Her nomination as Discovery of the Year at the 24th Opus Awards Gala and as Grand Laureate at the coveted Prix d’Europe are among the many distinctions that mark her career.

An accomplished and versatile musician, Ariane Brisson's most recent collaborations with Les Violons du Roy, the Trois-Rivières and Drummondville Symphonic Orchestras, I Musici and the Neues Zürcher Orchester (Switzerland) as a soloist have allowed the flautist to present a vast repertoire, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Guillaume Connesson.

Charmed by the fluidity and sensitivity of Ariane’s playing, the musicians of the renowned wind quintet Pentaèdre invited her to join the ensemble in 2016. She has been its artistic director since 2019. Curious, Ariane’s reflections led her to complete a doctorate in performance at the Université de Montréal in 2022, under the tutelage of Jean-François Rivest and Michel Duchesneau, and thus to rethink the interpretation and pedagogy of the transverse flute. In May 2022, Ariane Brisson and pianist Olivier Hébert-Bouchard’s very first album for flute and piano, Mythes, was released on the ATMA Classique label, which features exclusively original transcriptions by the flutist. In March 2025, a disc dedicated to two Sonatas for flute and piano by Prokofiev, with pianist Philip Chiu, will be released, still under the ATMA label.

Principal flute of the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra and the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Ariane also leads fruitful collaborations with the greatest orchestral ensembles in Quebec, including Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, leading her to perform regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. A sought-after and passionate teacher, the flutist has been teaching with great enthusiasm since 2019 at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal, where she is a lecturer.

Ariane Brisson would like to particularly thank the Fondation du Prix d’Europe, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), the Sylva-Gelber Foundation, the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), foundations and organizations that allow her to ambitiously realize her various artistic and research projects. Sensitive to the various aesthetics of the musical repertoire, Ariane plays in turn on a Yamaha transverse flute made of grenadilla wood, as well as on a Powell 10K flute kindly loaned by the Compagnie Canimex Inc. (Drummondville, Canada), owned by patron Roger Dubois.