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Hear the Unheard-Of

With no less than 13 premieres and artists never-before seen in Montréal, SMCQ’s 45th season is packed with the unexpected and the unheard-of! The program selected by Walter Boudreau this year particularly illustrates the diversity found in today’s music, from intimate recitals to large-scale performances, with young local composers and international monuments of the 20th and 21st centuries. And with, beside the Ensemble of the SMCQ conducted by Boudreau himself, the participation of artists as diverse as the Sixtrum percussion ensemble and Trio George Sand (France), the Quasar saxophone quartet and DJ P-Love, the Transmission ensemble and pianist Louise Bessette, in this case “diversity” rhymes with “quality.” May it be disquieting and imposing (Gruber’s Frankenstein!!, Louis Dufort’s Zénith, Andriessen’s De Staat) or shimmering and poetic (Bertrand’s Akira no yume, Tremblay’s Musiques sur l’eau, Murail’s Feuilles à travers les cloches), the music programmed this season is always captivating. So let yourself be taken… and surprised.