Pentaèdre
A unique musical ensemble in the Canadian landscape, Pentaèdre
explores and presents to the public a diversified and original
chamber music repertoire, developed in the tradition of
music for winds. Under the artistic direction of Louis-Philippe
Marsolais since 2005, the five artists-musicians forming
the quintet are recognized for the talent, technique, precision
and color they bring to their performances.
Strongly committed to refresh the classical concert concept,
Pentaèdre crosses the borders between artistic disciplines
and reintegrates performing arts into the concert : musicians
become complete artists by performing with dancers, actors,
mimes or singers. Their 4 to 7 concerts season may thus
include researches, transcriptions, creations, guest ensembles
or artists (piano, singers, strings), collaborations or
exchanges, works for young audiences as well as staging
challenging interdisciplinary projects.
The past ten years have seen Pentaèdre inviting renowned
guests artists such as tenors Christoph Prégardien
and Rufus Muller, baritones Russell Braun and Phillip Addis,
soprano Karina Gauvin and pianists Naida Cole, David Jalbert
and Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, while pursuing collaborations with
chamber ensembles like Penderecki String Quartet and Molinari
Quartet. The ensemble has been heard all over Canada, in
the United States, in Europe and in the Middle East.
One of their most recent CDs, a chamber version by Normand
Forget of Schubert’s Winterreise, was awarded the
CD of the Year 2008 Opus Prize – Classical, Romantic,
Postromantic, Impressionist Music by the Conseil Québécois
de la Musique, and got the exceptional Stern des Monats/Star
of the Month from German magazine Fono Forum. These come
on top of excellent reviews of Pentaèdre’s
innovative shows L’amour est un opéra muet
and A Chair in Love, and an Opus Prize for Best Concert
of the Year, Present, Contemporary, Electro-Acoustic Music
in 2002.
Among recent performances were concerts in Belgium, Germany
ad Israël of a chamber version of Schubert’s
Winterreise (by Normand Forget) with famous tenor Christoph
Prégardien ; the stage version première of
John Metcalf’s opera A Chair in Love at Cardiff and
Swansea Opera Houses (10 concerts in Wales and Ireland);
L’amour est un opéra muet (from Mozart’s
Cosi fan tutte) with the mime company Omnibus; Numerous
shows for young audiences. The ensemble has recorded 5 CDs
and performed more that 25 premières including commissions
to canadian composers such as Ana Sokolovic, André
Ristic, Michael Oesterle and Denis Dion. Their season concerts
are regularly broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC.
Visit pentaedre.com
for more info.
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