Press Release

Baroque Fire

Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal presents Baroque Fire, with violinist and guest conductor Jeanne Lamon

For the last season of its regular season the Metropolitain turns the clock back to the Baroque with guest conductor and violinist Jeanne Lamon, one of Canada’s greatest specialists in the baroque music. Lamon, the Artistic Director of Toronto’s Tafelmusik, has prepared a florilegium of music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which makes for a fascinating evening of discovery of the Baroque treasures from which sprang the symphonic repertoire of subsequent centuries.

Program

• Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso in D minor (op. 3, No. 11)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dardanus, suite
• Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen, suite
• George Frideric Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks

Jeanne Lamon, Conductor and Violinist

Music Director of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto since 1981, Jeanne Lamon has been praised by critics in Europe and North America for her virtuosity as a violinist and her strong musicial leadership. In addition to performing with and directing Tafelmusik, she regularly guest directs symphony orchestras around the globe. Recent engagements include the Detroit Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Victoria Symphony, Orchestra London and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She is the regular baroque series director of Symphony Nova Scotia in Halifax. Ms. Lamon’s numerous awards include an honorary doctorate from York University, an appointment to the Order of Canada and the Prix Alliance from the Alliance Française for the promotion of cultural exchange between France and Canada. She has begun to discover a passion for opera in her recent direction of Handel’s Semele at the Opera School at the University of Toronto and Haydn’s Isola Disabitata in France. Ms. Lamon is an enthusiastic teacher of young professionals, serving on the faculties of the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto.

Monday, April 10, 7:30 pm
Théâtre Maisonneuve (Place des Arts)
514-842-2112

The Conseil des Arts de Montréal on tour

Thursday, March 30th at 7:30 pm
Theatre Outremont (Outremont)
514-495-9944

Friday, March 31st at 8 pm
Saint-Joachim Church (Pointe-Claire)
514-630-1220

Wednesday, April 12th at 7:30 pm
Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church (Verdun)
514-765-7150

Thursday, April 13 th at 8 pm
Désilets Hall (Rivière-des-Prairies)
514-872-9814

Tickets from $10 to $35,95

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal offers pre concert talks one hour before each concert. Conferences are given by OM’s violinist, Claudio Ricignuolo.

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Media: Marie-Pierre Rolland
514-598-0870 ext. 28

The Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal wishes to thank our governmental partners: the CAM, The CALQ and the CCA

[7195] News posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006.