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The fifth Air Canada program brings legends from the United States, Mexico and Argentina. The program opens with an overture to a stage work that since its premiere on Broadway half a century ago, has become a legendary success story in the history of American music, Bernstein’s West Side Story. Another legendary American work, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, will be performed here by Oliver Jones. Argentina is represented by one of Piazzolla’s most famous works, his poignant tango Adiós, Nonino. A world premiere by David Robert Coleman, who will also conduct the concert, brings still another land into the picture through his new work.
演出日期：2008年04月29日星期二，晚間八點
演出地點：Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, 175, rue Sainte-Catherine Quest
演出人員：
指揮╱David Robert Coleman
As of September 2006 David Robert Coleman is associate-conductor and assistant to Maestro Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera Munich. This autumn he will debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra in two ballet productions, "Chamber Symphony" and "Der Sturm". The music he will conduct includes Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde", Sibelius 7th Symphony and Bruckner's 4th Symphony.
Other important upcoming events include a debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) in April 2008 in a concert that will see the premiere of a new piece of his for clarinet and orchestra written for Robert Crowley. David Robert Coleman is also undertaking a tour with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie to Mexico in spring 2008 for a series concerts, one of which will be televised from the Teatro Bellas Artes. The repertoire includes Brahm's 4th Symphony and Penderecki's viola concerto.
Over the last years David Robert Coleman has built up a reputation as a guest-conductor working with distinguished orchestras and ensembles such as the Ensemble Modern Orchestra (Berlin Biennale and Wiener Festwochen 2001), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Bremen State Orchestra. In 1999 he conducted the three-act version of Berg's "Lulu" at the Mainz State Opera that received warm reviews in newspapers such as the "Frankfurter Rundschau" and the "Frankfurter Allgemeine"
Since 2004 David Robert Coleman has worked closely with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. He has conducted the YOA in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. In August 2006 he opened the Young Euro Classics Festival in the Berlin Konzerthaus with a triumphal concert that included the German first performance of Silvestre Revueltas' "Night of the Mayas" as well as the premiere of his own "Albeniz Phantasy for viola and orchestra" with Edmundo Ramirez as the soloist. The concert received ecstatic reviews in a wide range of German newspapers and was broadcast on German public radio.
Born into an English-German family in London, he studied piano, musicology and conducting at King's College Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music London (winning major conducting prizes). He pursued studies in composition with George Benjamin in London and later with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe.
David Robert Coleman's formation as a conductor continued working as an assistant to some of the most important conductors of our time, such as Pierre Boulez in Aix-en-Provence and Sir Simon Rattle on Wagner's "Ring".
In addition, for over six years David worked as assistant-conductor at the Southwest German Radio Orchestra Baden-Baden, conducting rehearsals and preparing programmes for conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Zender. He also worked as an assistant-conductor and repetiteur at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and at the Mannheim National Theatre.
As a composer David Robert Coleman has been performed and commissioned by many leading ensembles and orchestras in France and Germany, such as Ensemble Intercontemporain (who commissioned the piece "Deux" in 2003), Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Seville Biennale 2004, Luxembourg Spectral Music Festival 2005, Jena Philharmonic, Oldenburg State Orchestra and the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. In 2001 he was a prize-winner at the Frankfurt Opera Young Composers' Competition, where his chamber-opera "Herzkammeroper" was performed with the Ensemble Modern under his direction. In 2002 he conducted his piece "Starry Night" for piccolo, piano and small orchestra with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal.
David Robert Coleman has just completed an arrangement of Ernst Bloch "Shelomo" for chamber-orchestra and 'cello that Kent Nagano and members of the Bavarian State Orchestra will premiere at the opening concert of the Operfestspiele 2007 in the new Jewish Cultural Centre in Munich.
The music of David Robert Coleman is published by Alphonse Leduc Paris.
鋼琴╱奧利佛‧瓊斯（Oliver Jones）
在當今的爵士樂壇，有不少藝人都是年紀輕輕就成了知名度超高的巨星，可是奧利佛‧瓊斯（Oliver Jones）卻不一樣，當他被爵士樂迷們「發現」的時候，已經年過半百。
現年七十二歲的奧利佛‧瓊斯，來自加拿大的蒙特婁，身兼作曲、編曲、鋼琴與風琴演奏等多樣才華，年方五歲就首度公開表演鋼琴獨奏，後來跟隨包括奧斯卡彼得森（Oscar Peterson）的姊姊在內的幾位名師鑽研技巧，有著深厚的古典根基。50年代末期，他又進一步學習作曲理論。在魁北克地區陸續參加過幾支樂隊之後，他從1964年起轉往波多黎各，為流行歌手肯‧漢彌爾頓（Ken Hamilton）擔任音樂指導，直到1980年才返回蒙特婁，成為全職的爵士樂演奏者，並且組成自己的三重奏樂隊，逐漸打響知名度。從80年代中期起，他先後推出不少評價相當高的專輯，成了80年代加拿大爵士樂壇最成功的藝人之一，經常應邀前往世界各國巡迴演奏。
很多人都認為，奧利佛‧瓊斯之所以沒有成為真正的超級巨星，是因為他始終被籠罩在奧斯卡彼得森的陰影中。確實，他們兩人之間有太多相似的地方，包括文化背景、音樂風格、以及精湛的鋼琴演奏技巧。不過，他不但不在意這樣的比較，甚至還多次邀請奧斯卡彼得森與其伙伴們聯合演奏、或錄製專輯，更把許多自己譜寫的作品用來當作對奧斯卡彼得森等大師的禮讚，展現了泱泱大度。
2004年七月十日，奧利佛‧瓊斯應邀參加國際最大爵士活動之一的蒙特婁爵士音樂節演出，也藉機為他當時的新專輯「Serenade」宣傳。高齡七十的他，坐在鋼琴的前面，絲毫沒有一點老態，手指在琴鍵上行雲流水一般的彈奏著動人的音符，除了展現他的古典根基，也把「bebop」的魅力展露無遺。曲目有好些都是來自百老匯與好萊塢傳奇大師們的經典，包括「Falling in Love」、「On the Street of Dreams」、「Somewhere」、「Over the Rainbow」和「Georgia on My Mind」等等，也有他自己的創作如「Blues for Helene」、「Tetra, Tetra」和「Snuggles」等等。另外，他還演奏了一連串蓋西文（George Gershwin）經典的混合曲。無論是他獨自彈奏、或者跟班底的貝司與鼓手搭配，都渾然天成，令人激賞。
豎笛╱Lori Freedman
Conspicuously described as “a musical revolutionary,” she is known internationally as one of the most provocative and creative performers. Her work includes contemporary, improvised and electroacoustic music and she frequently extends into multidisciplined forms collaborating with dance, theatre and visual artists. Over thirty-five composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her and her work has been recorded on 28 CDs, most recently 3 (Montreal Trios, Ambiances Magnétiques), Thin Air and See Saw (Queen Mab Trio-Wig), Close (Queen Mab Duo—Spool), and Barbie’s Other Shoe (Queen Mab-9 Winds). Just prior to the release of her debut feature solo album Huskless! (Artifact) she received the 1998 Freddie Stone Award for the “demonstration of outstanding leadership, integrity and excellence in the area of contemporary music and jazz.” That cd won her the nomination for the Prairie Music Award 2000 as the “Most Outstanding Classical Recording. “Her second solo album, À un moment donné (Ambiances Magnétiques) has been receiving critical acclaim since its release and was nominated for Best Recording of Musique Actuelle by the Prix d’Opus 2003. “Clarinet never sounded so human-wildly curious, deeply soulful, swooping, swooning naked intimacy” — Juan Rodriguez, The Montreal Gazette.
Highlights from Freedman’s most recent activities include concerts with Joëlle Léandre, Suzie Ibarra, Iva Bittova, Maggie Nichols, Kaffe Matthews, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengleberg, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Joe McPhee, and Fred Frith. Recent events also saw Freedman: as a featured soloist in the SoundaXis Festival (Toronto) performing Échange by Iannis Xenakis; premiering her new solo bass clarinet composition Brief Candles; on a 30-city Europe/North America tour with the Queen Mab Trio; the solo concert production Dehors en dedans / There, in here, featuring works written for her, by her and by Canadian composers Ana Sokolvic, Bradshaw Pack, Monique Jean, André Ristic, Jacquie Leggatt and Jean Derome; solo improvisation performances at the World Bass Clarinet Conference in Rotterdam, the International Jazz Festivals in Guelph, Vancouver and Montreal.
Continuing on her live performance appearances, Freedman also has several recording projects and releases in the near future: The Seattle Trio (Gust Burns, pno, Tom Swafford, vln); 10 Situations (Tour de bras, Rimouski); Thomson/Freedman Duo (Scott Thomson, trombone); Décor sonore (M. Auclair, cello); Solor, the solo DVD project, an improvisation in the style of the rock-video.
“Clarinette virtuose, elle est d’une créativité sans cesse renouvelée… Profondément original.” — Gabriel Bélanger, All music guide
演出曲目：
伯恩斯坦：Symphonic Dances（選自《西城故事》）
David Robert Coleman：世界首演
皮耶左拉：阿迪歐斯
蓋西文：藍色狂想曲
吉納史特拉（Alberto Ginastera）：「馬蘭波舞曲」，選自《牧場》，作品8
參考網址：http://www.osm.ca/en/index_concerts_concert.cfm?ID=286
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The Montreal Chamber Music Festival starts its 2008 season with the world-renowned Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti. His recording of all the Beethoven Sonatas is an authentic reference version, a pinnacle in the execution of Beethoven's music. Anton Kuerti will perform with outstanding artists including his own Montreal-born protégé, pianist Wonny Song.
A great musical event not to be missed
演出日期：2008年05月01日星期四，晚間八點
演出地點：St-James United Church, 463 Ste-Catherine St. West
演出人員：
小提琴╱克勞（Jonathan Crow）
前蒙特婁交響樂團小提琴首席、現任麥基爾大學教授。
小提琴╱Marie-Ève Poupart
Winner of the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra Competition and the recipient of numerous prizes, Marie-Ève Poupart began studying the violin at the age of four and was admitted at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec à Montréal at the age of seven. She is currently concert master in the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. Renowned for the absolute consistency of her playing, she will be accompanied by pianist Claire Ouellet in performing the music of Waxman and Strauss.
中提琴╱馬可士‧湯普森（Marcus Thompson）
畢業於茱莉亞音樂院的中提琴家馬可士‧湯普森，活躍於美國各大樂團和室內樂團體。
大提琴╱Denis Brott
Denis Brott is recognized internationally as one of Canada's finest performing musicians. He is Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique du Qu嶵ec ?Montr嶧l, Founder and Artistic Director of the prize-winning Montreal Chamber Music Festival and conductor of Les Jeunes Virtuoses, a training orchestra for young professional string players. During the 2001/02 season, he was acting principal cellist of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yoav Talmi.
The list of Denis Brott's teachers reads like a pantheon of some of the world's finest cellists. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School of Music, Janos Starker at Indiana University and Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California. At a very young age, he won a succession of prizes, including the New York Affiliate Artist Award, the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Award, Merriweather Post Competition and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition. He has appeared as soloist with every major Canadian orchestra and performed under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Franz Paul Decker, Mario Bernardi, Yoav Talmi, Ronald Zollman and other prominent conductors.
Mr. Brott rose to international attention in 1972 when he won the Munich International Cello Competition. Since then, his concert tours have taken him to four continents and numerous festivals including Aspen, Marlboro, Sitka, Musicorda, Heifetz International Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where he spent nine summers on the Faculty. He is a sought after member of international juries including the Munich and Evian International String Quartet Competitions, the Munich Cello and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation "Young Performers" Competitions. In 2008, he will be a member of the Munich International ARD String Quartet Competition jury.
A devoted chamber musician, Denis Brott spent almost a decade in the Orford String Quartet during which time he recorded more than 25 chamber music discs. Especially acclaimed were the recordings of the complete string quartets of Beethoven, which won the Grand Prix du Disque Award and two Juno Awards for Best Chamber Ensemble Classical Recording. He has appeared as guest with numerous ensembles including the Emerson and Tokyo String Quartets.
His many solo recordings include the three Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano and Homage to Piatigorsky. He received this accolade from Yo-Yo Ma: "His playing throughout is exemplary, full of the rich sound and technical wizardry the master exemplified. I think Piatigorsky would be proud."
Mr. Brott has authored a number of articles which have appeared in international publications including Strad Magazine, Orchestras Canada, University of Toronto Alumni Magazine and the Violoncello Society of New York.
Denis Brott played a pivotal role in the creation of The Instrument Bank of the Canada Council of the Arts, which gave him a magnificent 1706 David Tecchler cello for his lifetime use.
In October, 2004, Denis Brott received the Great Montrealer Award for culture. The Academy of Great Montrealers honours citizens who inspire others through their contribution to the community through initiatives in their respective spheres and their exceptional role in enhancing the prestige of Montreal.
鋼琴╱安東‧屈爾蒂（Anton Kuerti）
Anton (Emil) Kuerti (born July 21, 1938, in Vienna, Austria) is a Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven. Kuerti studied music at the Longy School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski.
Even with international recognition as a solo performer, Kuerti has also been generous in sharing his talents within Canada. Of particular note are his performances at Hart House [1], University of Toronto (in a series shared with various world-renowned Chopin interpreters, covering the complete works of Chopin), and his participation in the Town and Gown Concert Series [2] at Wenjack Theatre, Trent University, along with such other Canadian artists as Lois Marshall, Valerie Tryon and Fredrick Pritchard[3] In 1980, he founded Festival of the Sound, a classical music festival in Parry Sound, Ontario.[4]
Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists. His recordings include all the Beethoven concertos and sonatas, the Schubert sonatas, the Brahms concertos, and works by many other composers. A sometime peace activist, in Canada's 1988 federal election, Kuerti was the New Democratic Party candidate in Don Valley North. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2007 he joins the faculty at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal as visiting professor. In 2008 he was awarded the Canadian Governor General's lifetime artistic achievement award.
Kuerti is also the artistic director of the Mooredale Youth Orchestras, a small Toronto-based set of three orchestras for children and young adults, occasionally conducting the senior section. His contributions to not only his own community, but the global community confirm that he is an outstanding individual. With a caring personality and his sharp wit, Kuerti is more than a great pianist.
His son Julian Kuerti is a conductor, who is the assistant conductor to the Boston Symphony.
鋼琴╱Wonny Song
Korean-Canadian pianist WONNY SONG is “a versatile, intelligent, and deeply musical young pianist,” says The Washington Post. Still only in his mid-20’s, Mr. Song has already begun an exciting international career.
In May 2007, Mr. Song appeared in the annual United States Supreme Court musicale, presented by the Friends of Music of the Supreme Court, and hosted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also appeared extensively at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival in May and in June returned to the second Young Concert Artists Festival at CHANEL Nexus Hall in Tokyo. During the 2007-2008 season, Mr. Song makes his New York concerto debut with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, as part of YCA’s gala Irene Diamond Concert. He also makes orchestral appearances with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (FL) and the Signature Symphony at Tulsa Community College, and recitals at Colgate University (NY), Iowa State University, Clemson University (SC), and the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (MI).
As winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, Mr. Song made his recital debuts at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York, sponsored by the Claire Tow Prize, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society. He was also awarded the Fergus Orchestra Soloist Prize, the Saint Vincent College Concert Series Prize, and the Miriam Brody Aronson Prize.
Performances as soloist with orchestra include the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony, the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Kenosha (WI) Symphony Orchestra, the Waterbury (CT) Symphony Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa, and the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and Thailand. Mr. Song has appeared at festivals including the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the National Arts Center Young Artists Festival in Ottawa, Canada at the invitation of Pinchas Zukerman where he was awarded the 2002 “Galaxy Rising Stars Award” and the Holland Music Sessions.
Mr. Song was awarded the 2003 Prix d’Europe in Canada, which presented him in recital throughout Canada, France, Italy, and Sweden. As the 2001 First and Grand Prize winner of the Minnesota Orchestra’s WAMSO Competition, he appeared in three subscription concerts with Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra in 2002, and was reengaged for three more subscription concerts with Osmo Vänskä in 2006. He won the 1997 Ludmila Knezkova Piano Competition in Nova Scotia, as well as First Prize and Best Artistic Interpretation Prize at the 1995 Montreal Symphony Piano Competition and a Gold Medal at the 1994 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.
Other highlights of Mr. Song’s career include a solo recital as Canada’s musical ambassador to the 1993 World Expo in Korea and a 1998 performance in Bangkok at the closing ceremony of the Asian Olympic games, an event attended by Thailand’s Royal Family. Mr. Song returned to Korea in 2005 to perform in the opening concert of Seoul’s new Chungmu Art Hall with the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gum Nan-se.
Mr. Song’s first CD, a recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli, was released on the Canadian label XXI-21 Records and was a bestseller in Canada. In 2003, Mr. Song was featured in a special volume profiling “100 Korean-Canadians of Note,” which was published by Canada’s Korean newspaper, the Korea Times.
Mr. Song was born in South Korea and grew up in Montreal. He began piano studies at the age of eight and received a full scholarship to Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1994. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Montreal University in 1998 and continued his studies with Anton Kuerti at the University of Toronto and at the Glenn Gould Professional School with Marc Durand. Awarded the first Elinor Bell Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2000, he completed his Doctoral studies there with Lydia Artymiw in 2004.
演出曲目：
莫札特：雙鋼琴變奏曲，G大調，作品五零一 舒伯特：a小調快板，遺作，作品一四四，D九四七
貝多芬：第二十三號奏鳴曲「熱情」，f小調，作品五十七，
布拉姆斯：五重奏，f小調，作品三十四
參考網址：http://www.festivalmontreal.org/concerts/May01E.html
演出日期：2008年04月29日星期二，晚間八點
演出地點：Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, 175, rue Sainte-Catherine Quest
演出人員：
指揮╱David Robert Coleman
As of September 2006 David Robert Coleman is associate-conductor and assistant to Maestro Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera Munich. This autumn he will debut with the Bavarian State Orchestra in two ballet productions, "Chamber Symphony" and "Der Sturm". The music he will conduct includes Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde", Sibelius 7th Symphony and Bruckner's 4th Symphony.
Other important upcoming events include a debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) in April 2008 in a concert that will see the premiere of a new piece of his for clarinet and orchestra written for Robert Crowley. David Robert Coleman is also undertaking a tour with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie to Mexico in spring 2008 for a series concerts, one of which will be televised from the Teatro Bellas Artes. The repertoire includes Brahm's 4th Symphony and Penderecki's viola concerto.
Over the last years David Robert Coleman has built up a reputation as a guest-conductor working with distinguished orchestras and ensembles such as the Ensemble Modern Orchestra (Berlin Biennale and Wiener Festwochen 2001), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Bremen State Orchestra. In 1999 he conducted the three-act version of Berg's "Lulu" at the Mainz State Opera that received warm reviews in newspapers such as the "Frankfurter Rundschau" and the "Frankfurter Allgemeine"
Since 2004 David Robert Coleman has worked closely with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. He has conducted the YOA in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. In August 2006 he opened the Young Euro Classics Festival in the Berlin Konzerthaus with a triumphal concert that included the German first performance of Silvestre Revueltas' "Night of the Mayas" as well as the premiere of his own "Albeniz Phantasy for viola and orchestra" with Edmundo Ramirez as the soloist. The concert received ecstatic reviews in a wide range of German newspapers and was broadcast on German public radio.
Born into an English-German family in London, he studied piano, musicology and conducting at King's College Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music London (winning major conducting prizes). He pursued studies in composition with George Benjamin in London and later with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe.
David Robert Coleman's formation as a conductor continued working as an assistant to some of the most important conductors of our time, such as Pierre Boulez in Aix-en-Provence and Sir Simon Rattle on Wagner's "Ring".
In addition, for over six years David worked as assistant-conductor at the Southwest German Radio Orchestra Baden-Baden, conducting rehearsals and preparing programmes for conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Zender. He also worked as an assistant-conductor and repetiteur at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and at the Mannheim National Theatre.
As a composer David Robert Coleman has been performed and commissioned by many leading ensembles and orchestras in France and Germany, such as Ensemble Intercontemporain (who commissioned the piece "Deux" in 2003), Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Seville Biennale 2004, Luxembourg Spectral Music Festival 2005, Jena Philharmonic, Oldenburg State Orchestra and the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. In 2001 he was a prize-winner at the Frankfurt Opera Young Composers' Competition, where his chamber-opera "Herzkammeroper" was performed with the Ensemble Modern under his direction. In 2002 he conducted his piece "Starry Night" for piccolo, piano and small orchestra with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal.
David Robert Coleman has just completed an arrangement of Ernst Bloch "Shelomo" for chamber-orchestra and 'cello that Kent Nagano and members of the Bavarian State Orchestra will premiere at the opening concert of the Operfestspiele 2007 in the new Jewish Cultural Centre in Munich.
The music of David Robert Coleman is published by Alphonse Leduc Paris.
鋼琴╱奧利佛‧瓊斯（Oliver Jones）
在當今的爵士樂壇，有不少藝人都是年紀輕輕就成了知名度超高的巨星，可是奧利佛‧瓊斯（Oliver Jones）卻不一樣，當他被爵士樂迷們「發現」的時候，已經年過半百。
現年七十二歲的奧利佛‧瓊斯，來自加拿大的蒙特婁，身兼作曲、編曲、鋼琴與風琴演奏等多樣才華，年方五歲就首度公開表演鋼琴獨奏，後來跟隨包括奧斯卡彼得森（Oscar Peterson）的姊姊在內的幾位名師鑽研技巧，有著深厚的古典根基。50年代末期，他又進一步學習作曲理論。在魁北克地區陸續參加過幾支樂隊之後，他從1964年起轉往波多黎各，為流行歌手肯‧漢彌爾頓（Ken Hamilton）擔任音樂指導，直到1980年才返回蒙特婁，成為全職的爵士樂演奏者，並且組成自己的三重奏樂隊，逐漸打響知名度。從80年代中期起，他先後推出不少評價相當高的專輯，成了80年代加拿大爵士樂壇最成功的藝人之一，經常應邀前往世界各國巡迴演奏。
很多人都認為，奧利佛‧瓊斯之所以沒有成為真正的超級巨星，是因為他始終被籠罩在奧斯卡彼得森的陰影中。確實，他們兩人之間有太多相似的地方，包括文化背景、音樂風格、以及精湛的鋼琴演奏技巧。不過，他不但不在意這樣的比較，甚至還多次邀請奧斯卡彼得森與其伙伴們聯合演奏、或錄製專輯，更把許多自己譜寫的作品用來當作對奧斯卡彼得森等大師的禮讚，展現了泱泱大度。
2004年七月十日，奧利佛‧瓊斯應邀參加國際最大爵士活動之一的蒙特婁爵士音樂節演出，也藉機為他當時的新專輯「Serenade」宣傳。高齡七十的他，坐在鋼琴的前面，絲毫沒有一點老態，手指在琴鍵上行雲流水一般的彈奏著動人的音符，除了展現他的古典根基，也把「bebop」的魅力展露無遺。曲目有好些都是來自百老匯與好萊塢傳奇大師們的經典，包括「Falling in Love」、「On the Street of Dreams」、「Somewhere」、「Over the Rainbow」和「Georgia on My Mind」等等，也有他自己的創作如「Blues for Helene」、「Tetra, Tetra」和「Snuggles」等等。另外，他還演奏了一連串蓋西文（George Gershwin）經典的混合曲。無論是他獨自彈奏、或者跟班底的貝司與鼓手搭配，都渾然天成，令人激賞。
豎笛╱Lori Freedman
Conspicuously described as “a musical revolutionary,” she is known internationally as one of the most provocative and creative performers. Her work includes contemporary, improvised and electroacoustic music and she frequently extends into multidisciplined forms collaborating with dance, theatre and visual artists. Over thirty-five composers have written solo bass clarinet music for her and her work has been recorded on 28 CDs, most recently 3 (Montreal Trios, Ambiances Magnétiques), Thin Air and See Saw (Queen Mab Trio-Wig), Close (Queen Mab Duo—Spool), and Barbie’s Other Shoe (Queen Mab-9 Winds). Just prior to the release of her debut feature solo album Huskless! (Artifact) she received the 1998 Freddie Stone Award for the “demonstration of outstanding leadership, integrity and excellence in the area of contemporary music and jazz.” That cd won her the nomination for the Prairie Music Award 2000 as the “Most Outstanding Classical Recording. “Her second solo album, À un moment donné (Ambiances Magnétiques) has been receiving critical acclaim since its release and was nominated for Best Recording of Musique Actuelle by the Prix d’Opus 2003. “Clarinet never sounded so human-wildly curious, deeply soulful, swooping, swooning naked intimacy” — Juan Rodriguez, The Montreal Gazette.
Highlights from Freedman’s most recent activities include concerts with Joëlle Léandre, Suzie Ibarra, Iva Bittova, Maggie Nichols, Kaffe Matthews, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Misha Mengleberg, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Joe McPhee, and Fred Frith. Recent events also saw Freedman: as a featured soloist in the SoundaXis Festival (Toronto) performing Échange by Iannis Xenakis; premiering her new solo bass clarinet composition Brief Candles; on a 30-city Europe/North America tour with the Queen Mab Trio; the solo concert production Dehors en dedans / There, in here, featuring works written for her, by her and by Canadian composers Ana Sokolvic, Bradshaw Pack, Monique Jean, André Ristic, Jacquie Leggatt and Jean Derome; solo improvisation performances at the World Bass Clarinet Conference in Rotterdam, the International Jazz Festivals in Guelph, Vancouver and Montreal.
Continuing on her live performance appearances, Freedman also has several recording projects and releases in the near future: The Seattle Trio (Gust Burns, pno, Tom Swafford, vln); 10 Situations (Tour de bras, Rimouski); Thomson/Freedman Duo (Scott Thomson, trombone); Décor sonore (M. Auclair, cello); Solor, the solo DVD project, an improvisation in the style of the rock-video.
“Clarinette virtuose, elle est d’une créativité sans cesse renouvelée… Profondément original.” — Gabriel Bélanger, All music guide
演出曲目：
伯恩斯坦：Symphonic Dances（選自《西城故事》）
David Robert Coleman：世界首演
皮耶左拉：阿迪歐斯
蓋西文：藍色狂想曲
吉納史特拉（Alberto Ginastera）：「馬蘭波舞曲」，選自《牧場》，作品8
參考網址：http://www.osm.ca/en/index_concerts_concert.cfm?ID=286
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The Montreal Chamber Music Festival starts its 2008 season with the world-renowned Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti. His recording of all the Beethoven Sonatas is an authentic reference version, a pinnacle in the execution of Beethoven's music. Anton Kuerti will perform with outstanding artists including his own Montreal-born protégé, pianist Wonny Song.
A great musical event not to be missed
演出日期：2008年05月01日星期四，晚間八點
演出地點：St-James United Church, 463 Ste-Catherine St. West
演出人員：
小提琴╱克勞（Jonathan Crow）
前蒙特婁交響樂團小提琴首席、現任麥基爾大學教授。
小提琴╱Marie-Ève Poupart
Winner of the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra Competition and the recipient of numerous prizes, Marie-Ève Poupart began studying the violin at the age of four and was admitted at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec à Montréal at the age of seven. She is currently concert master in the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. Renowned for the absolute consistency of her playing, she will be accompanied by pianist Claire Ouellet in performing the music of Waxman and Strauss.
中提琴╱馬可士‧湯普森（Marcus Thompson）
畢業於茱莉亞音樂院的中提琴家馬可士‧湯普森，活躍於美國各大樂團和室內樂團體。
大提琴╱Denis Brott
Denis Brott is recognized internationally as one of Canada's finest performing musicians. He is Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique du Qu嶵ec ?Montr嶧l, Founder and Artistic Director of the prize-winning Montreal Chamber Music Festival and conductor of Les Jeunes Virtuoses, a training orchestra for young professional string players. During the 2001/02 season, he was acting principal cellist of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yoav Talmi.
The list of Denis Brott's teachers reads like a pantheon of some of the world's finest cellists. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School of Music, Janos Starker at Indiana University and Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California. At a very young age, he won a succession of prizes, including the New York Affiliate Artist Award, the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Award, Merriweather Post Competition and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition. He has appeared as soloist with every major Canadian orchestra and performed under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Franz Paul Decker, Mario Bernardi, Yoav Talmi, Ronald Zollman and other prominent conductors.
Mr. Brott rose to international attention in 1972 when he won the Munich International Cello Competition. Since then, his concert tours have taken him to four continents and numerous festivals including Aspen, Marlboro, Sitka, Musicorda, Heifetz International Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where he spent nine summers on the Faculty. He is a sought after member of international juries including the Munich and Evian International String Quartet Competitions, the Munich Cello and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation "Young Performers" Competitions. In 2008, he will be a member of the Munich International ARD String Quartet Competition jury.
A devoted chamber musician, Denis Brott spent almost a decade in the Orford String Quartet during which time he recorded more than 25 chamber music discs. Especially acclaimed were the recordings of the complete string quartets of Beethoven, which won the Grand Prix du Disque Award and two Juno Awards for Best Chamber Ensemble Classical Recording. He has appeared as guest with numerous ensembles including the Emerson and Tokyo String Quartets.
His many solo recordings include the three Brahms Sonatas for cello and piano and Homage to Piatigorsky. He received this accolade from Yo-Yo Ma: "His playing throughout is exemplary, full of the rich sound and technical wizardry the master exemplified. I think Piatigorsky would be proud."
Mr. Brott has authored a number of articles which have appeared in international publications including Strad Magazine, Orchestras Canada, University of Toronto Alumni Magazine and the Violoncello Society of New York.
Denis Brott played a pivotal role in the creation of The Instrument Bank of the Canada Council of the Arts, which gave him a magnificent 1706 David Tecchler cello for his lifetime use.
In October, 2004, Denis Brott received the Great Montrealer Award for culture. The Academy of Great Montrealers honours citizens who inspire others through their contribution to the community through initiatives in their respective spheres and their exceptional role in enhancing the prestige of Montreal.
鋼琴╱安東‧屈爾蒂（Anton Kuerti）
Anton (Emil) Kuerti (born July 21, 1938, in Vienna, Austria) is a Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. Since his performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra at age 11, he has developed international recognition as a solo pianist, particularly focusing on the works of Beethoven. Kuerti studied music at the Longy School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute. His teachers included Arthur Loesser, Rudolf Serkin and Mieczysław Horszowski.
Even with international recognition as a solo performer, Kuerti has also been generous in sharing his talents within Canada. Of particular note are his performances at Hart House [1], University of Toronto (in a series shared with various world-renowned Chopin interpreters, covering the complete works of Chopin), and his participation in the Town and Gown Concert Series [2] at Wenjack Theatre, Trent University, along with such other Canadian artists as Lois Marshall, Valerie Tryon and Fredrick Pritchard[3] In 1980, he founded Festival of the Sound, a classical music festival in Parry Sound, Ontario.[4]
Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists. His recordings include all the Beethoven concertos and sonatas, the Schubert sonatas, the Brahms concertos, and works by many other composers. A sometime peace activist, in Canada's 1988 federal election, Kuerti was the New Democratic Party candidate in Don Valley North. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2007 he joins the faculty at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal as visiting professor. In 2008 he was awarded the Canadian Governor General's lifetime artistic achievement award.
Kuerti is also the artistic director of the Mooredale Youth Orchestras, a small Toronto-based set of three orchestras for children and young adults, occasionally conducting the senior section. His contributions to not only his own community, but the global community confirm that he is an outstanding individual. With a caring personality and his sharp wit, Kuerti is more than a great pianist.
His son Julian Kuerti is a conductor, who is the assistant conductor to the Boston Symphony.
鋼琴╱Wonny Song
Korean-Canadian pianist WONNY SONG is “a versatile, intelligent, and deeply musical young pianist,” says The Washington Post. Still only in his mid-20’s, Mr. Song has already begun an exciting international career.
In May 2007, Mr. Song appeared in the annual United States Supreme Court musicale, presented by the Friends of Music of the Supreme Court, and hosted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also appeared extensively at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival in May and in June returned to the second Young Concert Artists Festival at CHANEL Nexus Hall in Tokyo. During the 2007-2008 season, Mr. Song makes his New York concerto debut with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, as part of YCA’s gala Irene Diamond Concert. He also makes orchestral appearances with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (FL) and the Signature Symphony at Tulsa Community College, and recitals at Colgate University (NY), Iowa State University, Clemson University (SC), and the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (MI).
As winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, Mr. Song made his recital debuts at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York, sponsored by the Claire Tow Prize, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society. He was also awarded the Fergus Orchestra Soloist Prize, the Saint Vincent College Concert Series Prize, and the Miriam Brody Aronson Prize.
Performances as soloist with orchestra include the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony, the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Kenosha (WI) Symphony Orchestra, the Waterbury (CT) Symphony Orchestra, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts Center Orchestra of Ottawa, and the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and Thailand. Mr. Song has appeared at festivals including the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the National Arts Center Young Artists Festival in Ottawa, Canada at the invitation of Pinchas Zukerman where he was awarded the 2002 “Galaxy Rising Stars Award” and the Holland Music Sessions.
Mr. Song was awarded the 2003 Prix d’Europe in Canada, which presented him in recital throughout Canada, France, Italy, and Sweden. As the 2001 First and Grand Prize winner of the Minnesota Orchestra’s WAMSO Competition, he appeared in three subscription concerts with Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra in 2002, and was reengaged for three more subscription concerts with Osmo Vänskä in 2006. He won the 1997 Ludmila Knezkova Piano Competition in Nova Scotia, as well as First Prize and Best Artistic Interpretation Prize at the 1995 Montreal Symphony Piano Competition and a Gold Medal at the 1994 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.
Other highlights of Mr. Song’s career include a solo recital as Canada’s musical ambassador to the 1993 World Expo in Korea and a 1998 performance in Bangkok at the closing ceremony of the Asian Olympic games, an event attended by Thailand’s Royal Family. Mr. Song returned to Korea in 2005 to perform in the opening concert of Seoul’s new Chungmu Art Hall with the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gum Nan-se.
Mr. Song’s first CD, a recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli, was released on the Canadian label XXI-21 Records and was a bestseller in Canada. In 2003, Mr. Song was featured in a special volume profiling “100 Korean-Canadians of Note,” which was published by Canada’s Korean newspaper, the Korea Times.
Mr. Song was born in South Korea and grew up in Montreal. He began piano studies at the age of eight and received a full scholarship to Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1994. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Montreal University in 1998 and continued his studies with Anton Kuerti at the University of Toronto and at the Glenn Gould Professional School with Marc Durand. Awarded the first Elinor Bell Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2000, he completed his Doctoral studies there with Lydia Artymiw in 2004.
演出曲目：
莫札特：雙鋼琴變奏曲，G大調，作品五零一 舒伯特：a小調快板，遺作，作品一四四，D九四七
貝多芬：第二十三號奏鳴曲「熱情」，f小調，作品五十七，
布拉姆斯：五重奏，f小調，作品三十四
參考網址：http://www.festivalmontreal.org/concerts/May01E.html
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