Sunday, May 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Solemn Aurora A vibrant tribute to Vancouver composer Jocelyn Morlock, who sadly passed away in 2023, in a moving programme featuring works by Samy Moussa, Rita Ueda and Tanya Tagaq. A leading figure in Canadian concert music and one of the most important composers of the last decade, Jocelyn Morlock has left us a powerful […]
Saturday, March 1, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Centre des musiciens du monde presents an unusual encounter between the musical culture of the Basque Country and the Mig’maq indigenous nation. This result of a creative residency gathers artists from both worlds (Darlène Gijuminag, Claudine Arhancet and Michel Etxekopar), defying borders and related by the land. Revealing age-old traditions and the modernity that emanates […]
Saturday, March 1, 2025 @ 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm – Experience an incredible, energizing sound and visual experience featuring 100 electric guitars, six percussionists and two symphony orchestras. To close the Montréal/New Musics Festival in style, the musical ensembles Instruments of Happiness — 100 guitares électriques, Sixtrum, Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de la Montérégie and Orchestre symphonique des jeunes du West Island come together for […]
Friday, February 28, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Ligeti: the musical soul of Kubrick’s visions From the hypnotic “2001: a Space Odyssey” to the bold “Eyes Wide Shut” and the eerie “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s films give a prominent place to the music of the great Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Several works by the composer are in fact present throughout the director’s cinematography. […]
Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Enter an elusive universe with the grand premiere of Mystery of clock, a dizzying interdisciplinary project by percussionist Aiyun Huang and violinist Mark Fewer that will take place in the unique setting of the Théâtre Plaza. Several years in the making, this project fuses theatre, dance and music in a gripping dramaturgy that obscures the […]
Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Come enjoy the musical creations of the students from Sophie-Barat Secondary School, inspired by the piece Atlantide by Michel-Georges Brégent. An afternoon that promises to be immersive and fascinating! It is 10 years after the creation of the Atlantide piece by the late Michel-Georges Brégent that the students of Sophie-Barat School revisit this masterpiece. Accompanied […]
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Four composers, four directors, four films! As part of the Montréal/New Musics Festival and the Rendez-vous Québéc Cinéma, come witness the culmination of a unique and exhilarating adventure, the result of an unprecedented partnership between the SMCQ and L’inis (L’institut national de l’image et du son). A call for projetcs in the summer of 2024 […]
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – A ‘house of mirrors,’ where live and recorded, real and virtual, truth and falsity merge, and where, in much the same way, the performer becomes the observer and the audience the observed. In the unique setting of the magnificent Théâtre Plaza, Il Teatro Rosso is a brand new project developed by NO HAY BANDA, in […]
Monday, February 24, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – New York-based vocal ensemble Ekmeles invites us into the intimate setting of UQAM’s Agora Hydro-Québec, bringing us on a musical journey through exterior and interior images from the real and imaginary past, through the evocative power of music and the inherent beauty of its graphic representations. The concert features Canadian works using science-fiction imagery (Taylor […]
Sunday, February 23, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – An innovative concert by Ensemble SuperMusique, featuring animated and participatory music scores. The programme features five varied works exploring the richness and diversity of the score’s graphic language, offering a fascinating glimpse of a little-known universe Combining musical performance, exploration of new forms of scores and academic research, DigiScore offers a unique experience where the […]
Saturday, February 22, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Electrifying Aurora As part of the 12th edition of the Montréal/New Musics (MNM) International festival, focusing on “Music and Images”, this concert invites us to immerse ourselves in the highly personal and eclectic musical and visual universe of Quebec composer Nicole Lizée. The programme features works by Lizée, Philippe Macnab-Séguin and Margareta Jeric. In much […]
Friday, February 21, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Musical gesture and digital art are at the heart of this evening at Mcgill University’s Music Multimedia Room (MMR) focusing on the up-and-coming Montréal musicians from Ensemble Éclat. This concert is also an opportunity to discover the Karlax, a new musical instrument with infinite possibilities devoted to the digital arts. In the two works by […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – This immersive experience melds instrumental music, electronics and video. Discover a power team consisting of Duo AIRS (Louis-Philippe Bonin, saxophones and David Therrien Brongo, percussion) and composer Alexandre David in McGill University’s new Music Multimedia Room (MMR). The Duo AIRS accomplices bring us an explosive and innovative evening, echoing the concert’s eponym piece, Delta, from […]
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Venez au Studio-Théâtre des Grands Ballets explorer les liens entre le geste musical et le geste calligraphique et le dessin. Au cours de ce concert mêlant vidéo, calligraphie et peinture en direct, les invités du Trio d’argent (France) interpréteront des compositions de Déry, Yu, Sinnhuber, Dazzi et Daudin-Clavaud. Du trait musical au trait pictural, les […]
Monday, February 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Présenté dans l’atmosphère englobante de la Satosphère de la SAT et inspiré du célèbre récit de Franz Kafka La métamorphose, ce spectacle immersif à 360° met en vedette deux artistes maltais, la pianiste Tricia Dawn Williams et le compositeur Ruben Zahra. La musique se glissera subtilement sur votre peau, éveillant vos sens et s’harmonisant avec […]
Sunday, February 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Issu d’une collaboration éclatée entre l’ensemble vocal Phth et l’artiste visuelle Beth Frey, ce spectacle met en lumière les cinq chanteurs et leurs costumes, métamorphosés et fusionnés grâce à un montage numérique captivant. Collaboration entre l’artiste visuelle Beth Frey et l’ensemble vocal Phth, ¡Némangerie mâchée! fait défiler sur vidéo une ribambelle de personnages étranges, mis […]
Saturday, February 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Vivez une expérience audiovisuelle immersive et méditative unique à l’intérieur de la Satosphère de la SAT (Société des arts technologiques), avec les pianistes Isak Goldschneider et Eve Egoyan sur des visuels de Elysha Poirier et de David Rokeby sur des musiques de Morton Feldman, Hans Martin et d’Ann Southam. Interprétée par Eve Egoyan, l’œuvre Simple […]
Friday, February 14, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Démarrez le festival MNM de manière explosive avec le concert Dynamite Barrel de l’ensemble hollandais New European Ensemble (NEuE) présenté à la Société des arts technologiques (SAT) Préparez-vous à un mélange bigarré où musique et images s’entremêlent en une danse effrénée avec des œuvres nostalgiques et ludiques de Tjøgersen, Cendo, Black, Bailie et une création […]
