Taking its name from an evocative composition by iconic Montréal composer Claude Vivier, Paramirabo was founded in 2008 by young musicians at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. The ensemble has since forged new paths through its audacious programs, multiple collaborations and exchanges, engagement with the public, and its commitment to showcasing new music works […]
Described as a “rising star” by Musicworks magazine, Juno-nominated composer Jared Miller’s eclectic music is “playful” (The New York Times), “hypnotic” (Sequenza21), “phantasmagorical” (Lucid Culture) and “highly personal” (CBC Radio). He has collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Montréal, Vancouver, Toronto, Nova Scotia, Detroit, New Jersey and Chicago, […]
Called “a brilliant musical scientist” (CBC), “breathtakingly inventive” (Sydney Times Herald), and “utterly inspiring” (I Care If You Listen), multi award-winning composer and filmmaker Nicole Lizée explores themes of malfunction, glitch, turntablism, rave culture, urbex, film theory, psychedelia, game culture, experimental fashion, and thrash metal to create a new kind of expression. Nicole’s works are […]
Keiko Devaux is a contemporary music composer based in Montréal. Her approach embraces a love of electroacoustic sounds and methodology by manipulating and distorting acoustic sound with digital tools, and then transcribing or retranslating it back into musical notation and the acoustic realm. Her varied interests include emotional experience and affect, auto-organizational phenomena in nature […]
Three-time Grammy nominee Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, Eighth Blackbird, the BBC Symphony, Scottish Opera, Norwegian National Opera and […]
Nico Muhly, born in 1981, is an American composer who writes orchestral music, works for the stage, choral music, chamber music and sacred music. He’s received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera: Two Boys (2011) and Marnie (2018); Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, Wigmore […]
Praised for his “sonorous timbre” and “remarkable diction” (Olyrix), British tenor Nicholas Scott enjoys a busy international schedule, and has extensive experience in the field of early music. Nicholas made his Italian debut as Don Carlos in a concert version of Les Indes galantes with Filarmonica Toscanini in 2023, the same year that he performed […]
Quebec double bassist Étienne Lafrance is an eclectic, curious and passionate artist. He is equally at home in classical music, improvised music, world music and accompanying singers. After completing his initial training at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec, he pursued advanced studies at the Institut international François Rabbath in Paris. He teaches every summer […]
Pierre McLean obtained a master’s degree in piano performance from the Université de Montréal, then went on to study in France (Royaumont), Italy (Siena) and Germany (Bremen, Düsseldorf). After participating in programs at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Tanglewood Music Centre in the United States, he completed an internship as a vocal […]
Since his appointment as Music Director of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra in 1990, Claude Lapalme has made his mark as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger and composer. Paris newspaper Le Figaro has called him a “remarkable and superb” conductor; the Toronto Globe and Mail, “assured and highly effective”; the Havana Granma, “surprisingly dexterous, […]
