PROGRAMME

• Listening to musical works;
• Group courses;
• Musical creation workshops;
• Hikes in the forest and initiation to meditative listening;
• Surprise concert;
• Food and repertoire pairing on the menu;
• Aperitifs, campfires, rich and pleasant discussions;
• Fun guaranteed!

COURSES

• The meditative music of Éliane Radigue;
• Instrumental music, human music, music of the spheres in the Middle Ages;
• The mystical minimalism of Arvo Pärt;
• The spirit and the breath: song and organ in the Renaissance.

Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez has been immersed in music (and in the water of Priscault Lake!) since she was a child, and has been teaching piano for ten summers now. She holds a doctorate in musicology and feminist studies from McGill University, is a member of the editorial board of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines and, since fall 2019, has been collaborating with the musicology team and the pedagogy department of Ircam / Centre Pompidou (Paris). Emanuelle is a professor of music literature and project director (Muziko program) at Cégep Vincent-d’Indy, she is the pianist of countertenor Hugo Perina.

Hugo Perina is a French-Canadian countertenor and flute player. Trained with great masters of the flute at the conservatory of Nantes (Muriel Foulon), then in Paris (Vincent Lucas) and in Florence (Michele Marasco), he studied opera singing with various masters in France, Quebec and Italy. He has performed in chamber music concerts in these three countries with the Despax Quartet as well as with many renowned organists such as Livia Mazzanti, Daniel Matrone, Gaétan Jarry and Catherine Todorovski. He has been living in Italy since 2019 where he is perfecting his skills in sacred singing and baroque opera. He won the 2nd prize in the international competition of opera singing San Colombano of Piacenza chaired by Reinhard Goebel and the 3rd prize in the international competition of opera singing “Roma Caput Mundi” chaired by Ines Salazar.

from Friday 5 PM to Sunday 4 PM
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Catherine Mathieu (cello, chamber music and musicology workshop): A graduate of the Université de Montréal in performance and musicology, Catherine Mathieu teaches cello in her private studio in Rosemère in addition to giving lectures seeking to make classical music accessible. She is also a writer for various orchestras.

Geneviève Bigonnesse (double bass and chamber music): A master’s degree graduate from the University of Montreal, Geneviève Bigonnesse is a dynamic double bassist who is very present in the Quebec orchestral scene. In addition to the Barroco Duo, she is a member of the Fiestango ensemble founded in 2005. A passionate pedagogue, she teaches at the primary, secondary and college levels. Since the fall of 2018, she has been the senior manager of the Music for Kids project, an initiative of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

from Friday 5 PM to Sunday 4 PM
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from Friday 1 PM to Sunday 4 PM
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Choral conductor Roseline Blain is very active on the Quebec and Canadian choral scene: She directs the Musica Orbium ensemble, the Chœur du Plateau, the Ensemble Phœbus, the Ensemble Gaïa as well as the Chœur du Musée d’art de Joliette. Until recently, she held the positions of and artistic director of Les Petites Voix du Plateau, a 125-member choral organization she founded in 2012. youth choir organization she founded in 2012. She is now the artistic director of a brand new festival festival, the Montreal Choral Festival, which was launched last October. Roseline Blain is currently in charge of the choral conducting courses, replacing Robert Ingari, who was in charge of the Master’s degree in choral conducting and the Summer School of Choral Singing of the Université de Sherbrooke during his sabbatical. She will also be the guest conductor of the Summer School Université de Sherbrooke, CAMMAC and the Domaine Forget choral workshop in the summer of Forget in the summer of 2023. Learn more

Marie-Annick Béliveau is a mezzo-soprano known for her multidisciplinary artistic practice, mainly devoted to creative music. She can be heard in more than 30 works composed for her here and in Europe and on several award-winning recordings. She is the artistic director of the lyrical creation company Chants Libres and teaches classical singing at UQAM.

Born into a family of musicians, Pierre McLean loved music and learned to play the piano as a child. He studied at the Université de Montréal, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree and then a master’s degree in piano performance under the direction of Nathalie Pepin. Showing a great curiosity for the music and languages of the lyrical repertoire, he completed his studies by training in Europe, first in Italy (Siena, certificate of advanced Italian studies), then in France (Royaumont, medieval music with the SMAM), and finally in Germany (Bremen, Düsseldorf, scholarship holder of the prestigious Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst or German inter-university exchange service).

Geneviève Dussault‘s career has unfolded at the confluence of music and movement. She has explored their dialogue in fields as diverse as early dance, contemporary dance, university teaching and research. Geneviève was a lecturer in the Dance Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal for 38 years. She taught movement analysis, expressive movement, body rhythm and dance history. Her career at UQAM was honored with an award for excellence in teaching in 2016 and an award for excellence in research-creation in 2020. She holds a Master’s degree in dance from York University in Toronto (1991) and a certification in movement analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (1996). Since 2011, she has been collaborating with Professor Nicole Harbonnier on research projects focusing on the complementarity of the functional and expressive aspects of movement, while developing a new conceptual proposal for the observation-analysis of movement (OAM). As a performer, she sings with the Chœur du Plateau (ambassador choir under the direction of Roseline Blain) and has participated in Sarah Dell’Ava’s intergenerational creative projects since 2013 (Oriri, Ori, O2 and O).

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Claudine Lapointe holds a Bachelor’s degree in teaching – performance option – from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a Master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she presented the results of her research on the particularities of Chopin’s fingerings. Since her return to Quebec, she has been teaching, composing, giving concerts and contributing to various pedagogical projects.

Sylvie Charbonneau holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Vincent-d’Indy School of Music. She continued her studies with Mr. Paul Loyonnet and Mr. Gilles Manny. While participating in various juries for exams and competitions, her main occupation is teaching piano in the Lower Laurentians region.

A native of New Brunswick, David Côté holds a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Université de Montréal. He has been heard on CBC radio, in recital in his native province and in the Greater Montreal area. Currently, David Côté teaches piano privately and is the director-manager of the Coopérative Vincent-d’Indy, a music business located in Montreal.

On the pedagogical level, he has collaborated in the development of the Repertoire for piano of the Vincent-d’Indy School of Music by suggesting numerous additions of pieces among which several of his compositions have since been retained. He is also president of the Quebec Music Teachers Association and of the Montreal Classical Music Festival.

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from Friday 5 PM to Sunday 4 PM
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(5 nights)

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