Le Vivier est un diffuseur spécialisé, formé de l’association de 34 ensembles et organismes musicaux et issu de la volonté du milieu. Le Vivier a pour mission de favoriser le développement des musiques nouvelles et d’offrir à tous, par la diffusion d’œuvres de qualité, une porte ouverte sur la culture.
Friday, October 2, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Québec Musiques Parallèles is a travelling festival of exploratory music and sound art that unfolds across Québec. The initiative brings together artists, producers, and presenters working along “parallel paths,” fostering connections across diverse practices and communities dedicated to adventurous sonic creation.
Saturday, October 3, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Québec Musiques Parallèles is a travelling festival of exploratory music and sound art that unfolds across Québec. The initiative brings together artists, producers, and presenters working along “parallel paths,” fostering connections across diverse practices and communities dedicated to adventurous sonic creation.
Saturday, September 26, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Oper’Actuel is a flagship event of Chants Libres, a company dedicated to the creation of new opera. This ninth edition brings together audiences, artists, and industry professionals through performances, workshops, discussions, and professional showcases highlighting today’s emerging operatic practices. The festival’s centerpiece, the Oper’Actuel performance, offers a carte blanche to soprano Sarah Albu, accompanied by […]
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Québec Musiques Parallèles is a travelling festival of exploratory music and sound art that unfolds across Québec. The initiative brings together artists, producers, and presenters working along “parallel paths,” fostering connections across diverse practices and communities dedicated to adventurous sonic creation.
Thursday, October 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Québec Musiques Parallèles is a travelling festival of exploratory music and sound art that unfolds across Québec. The initiative brings together artists, producers, and presenters working along “parallel paths,” fostering connections across diverse practices and communities dedicated to adventurous sonic creation.
Friday, September 25, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Oper’Actuel is a flagship event of Chants Libres, a company dedicated to the creation of new opera. This ninth edition brings together audiences, artists, and industry professionals through performances, workshops, discussions, and professional showcases highlighting today’s emerging operatic practices. The festival’s centerpiece, the Oper’Actuel performance, offers a carte blanche to soprano Sarah Albu, accompanied by […]
Saturday, September 26, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Oper’Actuel is a flagship event of Chants Libres, a company dedicated to the creation of new opera. This ninth edition brings together audiences, artists, and industry professionals through performances, workshops, discussions, and professional showcases highlighting today’s emerging operatic practices. The festival’s centerpiece, the Oper’Actuel performance, offers a carte blanche to soprano Sarah Albu, accompanied by […]
Friday, September 4, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – When the Zafraan and Paramirabo ensembles come together, the result goes beyond the simple sum of their talents: a temporary collective emerges, developing its own modes of interaction and perception. The two ensembles merge here into a new entity in which space, listening, and the relationships between performers become compositional elements. In Anna Korsun’s Spleen […]
Friday, September 25, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Voix croisées explores the intimate art of song through the creation of two song cycles for voice and piano. Set to French texts, the composers Louis-Michel Tougas and Olivier St-Pierre present two works performed by soprano Brittany Rae and pianist Rosane Lajoie. Developed through close collaboration between composers and performers, the concert offers a meeting point […]
Saturday, June 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Gotō (archipelago) is a soundscape, video, and solo piano work based on audio and video recordings of the Gotō Archipelago in Nagasaki, Japan. It was commissioned by Montreal-based, Nagasaki-born pianist Kimihiro Yasaka, and Canadian-born, Japan-based composer Daryl Jamieson. Gotō is important for early Japanese Buddhism, has a deep history including Neolithic archaeological sites, and plenty […]
Sunday, March 15, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A double bill featuring the improvisation group Limules alongside No Hay Banda and Ana María Romano. A meeting of bodies, memories, dreams, and sensibilities that intertwine through listening and curiosity. This work creates a dialogue between sonic universes nourished by personal stories, connections with instruments, affects, trust, and cultural exchanges. It is an invitation to […]
Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A double bill of improvised music from both sides of the river. With its wild instrumentarium, meditative aspect, and sonic intensity, Du vivant is a kinetic and instrumental performance that recreates the dark universe of the film created by the artists in 2020 on an immense giant roll of paper like a photo ribbon. While […]
Saturday, March 14, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Holding Present, a collaboration between choreographer Ula Sickle and the Brussels contemporary music ensemble Ictus, is a performance where music and dance merge into a powerful collective gesture. On stage, three musicians and four dancers share the same space, blurring the boundaries between bodies and instruments. The piece explores how an individual movement can become […]
Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Holding Present, a collaboration between choreographer Ula Sickle and the Brussels contemporary music ensemble Ictus, is a performance where music and dance merge into a powerful collective gesture. On stage, three musicians and four dancers share the same space, blurring the boundaries between bodies and instruments. The piece explores how an individual movement can become […]
Thursday, March 12, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – lovemusic presents a musical performance in which the performers’ bodies are at the heart of the experience, becoming essential elements of the sonic creation. Protest of the Physical is a performance in four tableaux. The musicians’ bodies are not simply vehicles for instrumental execution but are completely engaged in an expressive physicality. They are both […]
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Quasar – saxophone quartet renews its collaboration with the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey (ESMDM). This transcultural initiative creates a dialogue between the worlds of contemporary music and dance from Quebec and Mexico through an ambitious production. The project brings together five composers and choreographers from both communities, who create in tandem […]
Monday, March 9, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This concert explores movement through a sonic virtuosity that is at times fast and wildly unrestrained, and at others restrained, hovering at the threshold of stillness and audibility. The Bozzini Quartet presents an evening dedicated to the universes of Fulya Uçanok and Cenk Ergün, with a world premiere and a Canadian premiere. An electroacoustic musician, […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – sxelxéles te tl’etl’áxel / designs for inviting is a performance that questions how Indigenous values can influence the presentation of new music (staging, gathering formats). Taking as a starting point compositions by Linda Catlin Smith and Anna Höstman, Robinson collaborates with choreographer Justine Chambers and filmmaker Neven Lochhead to explore how the central concern of […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Children take center stage with Duo ÉK and their show Pouet! a musical theatre piece that invites the audience to participate. Pouet! is an energetic children’s show where music, live sound effects, mime, clowning, and object theatre merge for a playful and interactive experience. This 30-minute performance features two characters who communicate solely through noise […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm – A show designed especially for little ears! Music, scenography, lighting: each element is adapted to the psychology and understanding of the world of children under 3 years old. At the heart of the show: a luminous box full of surprises, made of various compartments and drawers. In each of them are objects of different shapes […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – A show designed especially for little ears! Music, scenography, lighting: each element is adapted to the psychology and understanding of the world of children under 3 years old. At the heart of the show: a luminous box full of surprises, made of various compartments and drawers. In each of them are objects of different shapes […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 9:45 am – 10:45 am – A show designed especially for little ears! Music, scenography, lighting: each element is adapted to the psychology and understanding of the world of children under 3 years old. At the heart of the show: a luminous box full of surprises, made of various compartments and drawers. In each of them are objects of different shapes […]
Monday, March 9, 2026 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am – sq’eq’íp st’elti’telem / songs gathering together, brings together a series of complementary events dedicated to Indigenous curatorial and creative practices in new music. Under the direction of Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō/Skwah First Nation)—artist, curator, and writer—this symposium explores how Indigenous forms of gathering, listening, and creation can transform the ways contemporary music is conceived. At the […]
Sunday, March 8, 2026 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am – sq’eq’íp st’elti’telem / songs gathering together, brings together a series of complementary events dedicated to Indigenous curatorial and creative practices in new music. Under the direction of Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō/Skwah First Nation)—artist, curator, and writer—this symposium explores how Indigenous forms of gathering, listening, and creation can transform the ways contemporary music is conceived. At the […]
Saturday, March 7, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Hide to show speaks about solitude, but also about synchronizing with others without seeing them; about being observed, choosing to make oneself visible or not, and replacing oneself in multiple ways. The spotlights turn towards the backstage, while the musicians prepare for the performance in front of the audience, each alone in their small private room. […]
Saturday, March 7, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Hide to show speaks about solitude, but also about synchronizing with others without seeing them; about being observed, choosing to make oneself visible or not, and replacing oneself in multiple ways. The spotlights turn towards the backstage, while the musicians prepare for the performance in front of the audience, each alone in their small private room. […]
Friday, March 6, 2026 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm – MOUVEMENTS is a musical performance that creates a space for dialogue between the sonic textures brought by electronics and the live interpretation of the instrumentalist. The sensitive presence of the artist in the face of the ubiquity of spatially diffused sound floating around the listener offers multiple forms of dialogue, juxtaposition, or conflict. The instrumentalist […]
Thursday, March 5, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Congratulations Employee 501111! You’ve been selected for voluntary compliance training at the QUIGITAL CORPORATE RETREAT. In this theatrical percussion-centric performance augmented by technology, Quigital, Architek Percussion, and Sarah Albu (soprano) invite you to experience the future of work: faster, louder, and playfully soul crushing. Powered by relentlessly enthusiastic algorithms, vocalist Sara Albu will guide you […]
Thursday, March 5, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Canta lo invisible – making the invisible visible Born from the meeting of artists from Stick&Bow, Paramirabo, LiSiLoG and composer Philippe Macnab-Séguin, Canta lo invisible, under the artistic direction of Krystina Marcoux, explores the intimate relationship between gesture, sound, and light, at the crossroads of contemporary music, improvisation, and digital art. At the heart of the […]
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Broken Spaces is an immersive and uninterrupted concert that explores sonic and visual space in all its forms, combining electronic music and mixed music, with digital visuals created by Myriam Bleau. An intense sensory experience where multiple aesthetics intersect in an innovative stage setup. Partners: IRCAM, Center for Musical Experimentation (CEM), Canada Council for the […]
Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Megumi Masaki’s HEARING ICE project seeks to mobilize positive social and environmental change through the sharing of personal stories, scientific facts, gestures, and interactive artistic works. The artist aims to raise awareness about climate change affecting ice and to amplify the voices of impacted communities through research, development, and the creation of new substantial narrative […]
Sunday, March 1, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Between repurposed technologies, digital avatars and everyday objects, this triptych explores the many faces of contemporary sound. Daniel Zea offers a performance for facial recognition in which the digital avatar reveals the tensions between human expression and algorithm. Nicole Lizée, meanwhile, brings the machines of the past back to life in a quadraphonic creation in which […]
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Immersive experience, improvised music (voice and electroacoustic), dance, visual arts. Le Murmure du Vivant is a multidisciplinary ecosystem where sound, movement, and visual elements are woven together organically, inviting the audience into a transformative experience: listening differently to think differently. Project supported by Pôle Relève, a program supporting emerging artists from Le Vivier. Partners: Codes […]
Sunday, March 1, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Immersive experience, improvised music (voice and electroacoustic), dance, visual arts. Le Murmure du Vivant is a multidisciplinary ecosystem where sound, movement, and visual elements are woven together organically, inviting the audience into a transformative experience: listening differently to think differently. Project supported by Pôle Relève, a program supporting emerging artists from Le Vivier. Partners: Codes […]
Saturday, February 28, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Immersive experience, improvised music (voice and electroacoustic), dance, visual arts. Le Murmure du Vivant is a multidisciplinary ecosystem where sound, movement, and visual elements are woven together organically, inviting the audience into a transformative experience: listening differently to think differently. Project supported by Pôle Relève, a program supporting emerging artists from Le Vivier. Partners: Codes […]
Friday, February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A meeting between emerging Québec artists and a leading Swiss ensemble centred around the work of Chiyoko Szlavnics. Through a focus on just intonation and an immersive placement of the musicians, Chiyoko Szlavnics blends instrumental timbres at a molecular level, creating a kind of sonic mobile suspended in space.
Sunday, February 22, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – SuperTotem 2 emerges from the encounter between the giant wind machines and invented instruments of Jean-François Laporte and three leading figures of Ensemble SuperMusique, renowned for their mastery of improvisation and sound creation. Following a striking first edition in the fall of 2019, SuperMusique and Productions Totem Contemporain once again join forces to extend this […]
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Discover the new talents of contemporary music at the 10th edition of the annual Vivier InterUniversitaire concert. The emerging generation of composers and performers from McGill University, Concordia University, Université de Montréal, and the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal presents original works selected by a professional jury from the new music community.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Espaces d’interaction aims to explore different modes of interaction through the creation of new works based on the notions of interaction, spatialization, and the human–machine relationship. The use of technology has been part of SIXTRUM’s artistic practice for many years. Our new Espaces d’interaction series seeks to explore various modes of interaction over the coming years […]
Saturday, February 7, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Music by friends, associates, and devotees of John Cage, performed by Isak Goldschneider, piano. The central figure of the program is the American composer, visual artist, and philosopher John Cage. Revered for his avant-garde approach to music, Cage had a deep resonance with nature and the environment. His compositions reflect a constantly evolving world in […]
Sunday, February 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Electric Totem, a concert celebrating mixed-media music, returns for a two-day edition with original compositions for the Table de Babel and electronics. This concert is part of the Electric Totem series created in 2009. This series has led to the creation of more than 100 extraordinary mixed-media musical works composed specifically for the invented instruments […]
Sunday, March 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – New York ensemble TAK, a leading figure in American experimental music, presents Star Maker Fragments, a work inspired by a science-fiction novel
Sunday, March 16, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – My Backyard, Somewhere is a reflection of our sense of connection between people and places: a poetic migration through words and sounds.
Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – collectif9 & Architek Percussion: My Backyard, Somewhere — Semaine du Neuf
Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Two generations of guitar virtuosos on stage together!
Thursday, March 14, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Quatuor Bozzini is celebrating its 25th anniversary with creations by three exceptional composers: Michael Oesterle, Linda Catlin Smith and Martin Arnold.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A techno-opera that explores our relationship with technology, through a hybrid performance combining music, theater and visual arts.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The new Laboratoire Lyrik of Chants Libres explores the concepts of presence and absence.
Monday, March 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This Paramirabo concert marks an exclusive encounter with Musikfabrik, Germany’s leading contemporary music ensemble.
Sunday, March 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Program of acousmatic, mixed and live works by Marie-Hélène Breault & Martin Bédard, Pauline Patie, Louis Dufort and Antoine Lussier.
Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Une plongée de trois heures dans l’univers de la musique acousmatique, immersive et spatialisée en temps réel, avec le résultat de plusieurs décennies de collaboration entre la Belgique et le Québec.
Friday, March 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The Quasar saxophone quartet continues its international collaborations, tackling the major issues of our world with sensitivity.
Friday, February 23, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – concert celebrating mixed-media music, returns for its 19th edition with original compositions for the Table de Babel and electronics.
Monday, February 19, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Neptune is a full-length experimental doom-drone program with the moons of the planet
Friday, January 26, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Ensemble Éclat’s first concert is an intense musical experience, showcasing the expressiveness at the heart of contemporary music: from explosive to tender, from ardently impassioned to dreamily melancholic. Ensemble Éclat, made up of a dozen young musicians, is committed to promoting and disseminating the music of emerging composers, as well as the repertoire of the 20th […]
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Concerti is six ‘comprovised’ collective compositions featuring, in turn, each of the ensemble’s six virtuosic improvisers as soloists. Ensemble Tesse is a group of six musicians from the Montreal music scene whose aim is to co-create new musical works. It is supported by the Pôle Relève du Vivier, which helps emerging new music artists to promote their […]
Thursday, November 30, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Melting Links is Codes d’accès’ annual electroacoustic music concert in an immersive multi-channel venue. For this annual concert of electroacoustic music, Codes d’accès promises an immersive experience through the works of composers Alexis Blais, Kasey Pocius, Roxanne Melissa Guerra-Lacasse, and Jean-Philippe Jullin. In Skand, Alexis Blais explores the relationship between rhythmic rigidity and organic fluidity. La […]
Saturday, November 25, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Discover three creations commissioned by the Orchestre de l’Agora and directed by Nicolas Ellis for this 2nd edition of Big Bang. For the 2nd edition of the “Big Bang – Sommet de la création”, the Orchestre de l’Agora highlights its musicians as soloists! Nicolas Gilbert’s percussion concerto is performed by David Therrien Brongo and and […]
Thursday, November 23, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The concert presented by Productions SuperMusique consists of two works commissioned from the dazzling saxophonist-vocalist Joane Hétu and the rocambolic keyboardist Vergil Sharkya’. Monnomest, by Joane Hétu, is dedicated to the cellist Rémy Bélanger of Beauport, who was attacked in Quebec City during the ‘sabre-rattling’ in October 2020. The composer poetically deconstructs and interweaves each […]
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Quasar pays tribute, for one evening, to the Quebec composer of contemporary music, Claude Vivier, who died 40 years ago. This concert in homage to Claude Vivier, elaborated in collaboration with the composer Yassen Vodenitcharov, includes an original work by Claude Vivier (Pulau Dewata), two works by Vivier’s masters (Paul Méfano and Gilles Tremblay), as […]
Sunday, June 11, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Architek Percussion is accompanied by the voices of Anna Pidgorna and Sarah Albu to explore the notion of perpetuity and eternity. A programme featuring works by Anna Pidgorna and Patrick Hart and creations by Robyn Jacob and Wally Gunn.
Friday, June 9, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This new multidisciplinary show by Tim Brady is an invitation to travel through 20 miniatures where beauty and desolation coexist. The composer’s music is paired with the captivating images of photographer Catherine Marcogliese and the choreographic creations of Charles Brécard.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Événement Pré-Akousma// Le célèbre compositeur canadien maximaliste Paul Dolden présente sa plus récente œuvre en version intégrale, et le compositeur américain Noah Creshevsy nous offre un échantillon de ses musiques hyperréalistes.
