Coming events

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – An exploration of imitative music through the ages through improvisation, reinterpretation, and experimentation with medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary forms and styles. Through their superb versatility, the performers promise many textures and colours.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Discover traditional dance music from Austria, Sweden, and France in the 18th and 19th centuries and intended for European folk dance balls, called Balfolk.  Eight dancers from Balfolk Montreal, will share with us their passion for traditional dances such as mazurka, polska and gavotte.

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Saturday, October 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Two stories that reside between reality and legend, accompanied by songs and instrumental pieces from Quebec’s oral tradition. These musical tales feature a miller who believes in neither God nor the devil, and, a young woman accused of witchcraft, who runs away at night to make the sabbath with the devils on Île d’Orléans…

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Sunday, September 14, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The finest works for theorbo and archlute, written in Italy and Germany in the 17th and 18th Centuries, performed by Sylvain Bergeron, an undisputed master. The program includes works by Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638) and J.S. Bach (1685-1750).

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Monday, April 22, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Celebrate Earth Day through striking images of Quebec nature, as well as new and old repertoire for violin, cello, and piano. The musicians will also perform works composed for the occasion by William Kraushaar that are accompanied by his unpublished images of our endangered wildlife.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This concert explores the sweet timbre of the male vocal trio, accompanied by period instruments such as the lute, recorders, and bowed fiddle. This intimate concert presents the bewitching songs of the great poet-musicians of medieval France, from the first troubadour Guillaume IX of Aquitaine to Guillaume de Machaut, the last of the trouvères. Jean-François […]

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Italy is in the spotlight in this program, comprising pieces from traditional Sicilian repertoire and madrigals by Sicilian Renaissance composers, including Sigismondo d’India and Antonio il Verso. Villanelles, tarantellas, and other gems from the oral tradition complete this concert, which speaks of the island’s rich history and diverse culture.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Musicians Vincent Lauzer and Sylvain Bergeron explore the art of instrumental variation, ricercare, as well as improvisation on popular dances from 16th and 17th Century France, Spain, and England. The magnificent soprano Andréanne Brisson Paquin joins them to interpret airs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – LA NEF présente Space time continuo Basses en vedette ! Direction musicale, Amanda Keesmaat et Dorothéa Ventura La Nef, compagnie de création et de production musicale, présentera Space Time Continuo, le 19 février prochain à 20 h, à la salle Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Space Time Continuo explore le riche et profond […]

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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – LA NEF présente Space time continuo Basses en vedette ! Direction musicale, Amanda Keesmaat et Dorothéa Ventura La Nef, compagnie de création et de production musicale, présentera Space Time Continuo, le 19 février prochain à 20 h, à la salle Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Space Time Continuo explore le riche et profond […]

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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – La Nef, compagnie de création et de production musicale, présentera Carpe Diem, le 20 novembre prochain à 20 h, à la salle Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Cette œuvre grand public de musique vocale aborde des thèmes philosophiques tels que la fragilité de la vie, le temps qui fuit, l’importance du moment présent, […]

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Saturday, May 5, 2018 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Cette œuvre offre aux amateurs de musique intimiste un récital de la soprano Hélène Brunet et de Sylvain Bergeron à l’archiluth. If Music be the food of Love, play on… C’est sur ce célèbre vers de Shakespeare mis en musique par Henry Purcell (1659-1695), que s’ouvre ce programme composé d’airs anglais de la Renaissance et du […]