Quebec in Paris, the new festival from ATMA Classique!
ATMA Classique brings Quebec to Paris! From April 14 to 16, 2023, the acclaimed Canadian music label inaugurates a new festival with four exceptional concerts in the elegant library La Grange-Fleuret (Paris VIIIe). Quebec to Paris brings together artists, industry professionals, and members of the public from France and Quebec, inviting them to share musical ideas and also to maintain the strong ties that unite the two countries. Quebec to Paris is a unique opportunity to (re)discover some of the best Canadian musicians: soprano Karina Gauvin, cellist Stéphane Tétreault, bandoneonist Denis Plante, baroque violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay and the viol duo Les Voix humaines formed by Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau.
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PROGRAM
Friday, April 14th
- 6:30 p.m. – CONFERENCE
“The financing of classical music in Quebec” with Guillaume Lombart, President of ATMA Classique, and Michel Ferland, General Director of ATMA Classique. Conference animated by the journalist Côme Monrozier
FREE ADMISSION
- 8:30 p.m. – SUITE TANGO by Denis Plante
Stéphane Tétreault, cello
Denis Plante, bandoneon
Cellist Stéphane Tétreault joins bandoneonist and composer Denis Plante to perform imaginative suites that blend the influence of Bach and Piazzolla. This program is drawn from their latest CD, Suite Tango, released on March 24, 2023.
Saturday, April 15th
- 6:30 p.m. – PRÉLUDES ET SOLITUDES
Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, baroque violin
Mélisande Corriveau, bass viol (guess artist)
Marie Nadeau-Tremblay presents excerpts from Préludes et solitudes, a lockdown-inspired introspective album, in which she explores pieces for solo violin, from Telemann to Purcell.
Release April 2021
- 8:30 p.m. – ANGUILLE SOUS ROCHE – SOMETHING FISHY!
Ensemble Les Voix humaines
Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau, bass viols
The ensemble Les Voix humaines performs excerpts from their new album Anguille sous roche, featuring works by Marin Marais, François Couperin, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Release date: April 28, 2023
Sunday April 16th
- 6 p.m. – MARIE HUBERT, FILLE DU ROY
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Pierre McLean, piano
Karina Gauvin presents excerpts from Marie Hubert, Fille du Roy, her upcoming CD (to be released in the fall of 2023). Based on the folklores of Quebec and France, the album recounts the life of Marie Hubert — Gauvin’s ancestor, who crossed the Atlantic in the time of Louis XIV.
THE GRANGE-FLEURET LIBRARY
Discover this musical and historical venue where the first edition of the festival Le Québec à Paris will take place.
An important place for music
The library takes its name from two great personalities of the music world: Maurice Fleuret, most notably director of music and dance under Jack Lang, and Henry-Louis de La Grange, a great biographer of Gustav Mahler. The two men wanted to make their collections accessible to the public by creating this library in 1986. Since then, the collections have been enriched with the archives of Alfred Cortot, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Marguerite Long. In 2016, the library joined forces with the Royaumont Foundation to bring together their documentary and heritage collections.
A prestigious address
Located a few steps from the Parc Monceau and the musicians’ district of the rue de Rome, the library is housed in a beautiful mansion in the 8th arrondissement. Built in 1867 by the Viscount of Dampmartin, the building is located in this district where the Parisian upper middle class settled at the time, along with artists, composers, and actors who enhanced cultural and social life. Renovated between 2019 and 2021, the venue offers luminous and elegant spaces, perfectly adapted to concerts.
Festival rates
TP : 20€ (FOR THE PUBLIC)
TR : 10€ (FOR THE PUBLIC)
TP 60 € pass 4 concerts
TR 30€ pass 4 concerts
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The Musical Library
11bis Rue de Vézelay, 75008 Paris
Train access: Saint-Lazare station
Metro access: Villiers station (line 2 and 3)
