2018
This year, the 47th edition of the Festival d’Automne in Paris will feature a portrait of the Canadian composer Claude Vivier. Vivier (1948–1983), whose work is still-little known in France, had been close to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gérard Grisey. He...
2018
Hailing from Nuuk, Greenland, Nive Nielsen – an Inuk songwriter, musician, singer and actress – has a connection to Canada, where she studied anthropology. She also stands up for the Indigenous traditions of the Far North, from which she draws...
2018
Their musical vocabulary and improvisational style firmly place the musicians of Misc in the jazz tradition. This does not stop them from drawing on elements of pop and rock. These influences, which have marked a new generation of jazzmen, find...
2018
Cameron Crozman is one of the most renowned cellists in Canada and performs around the world in prestigious venues including the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, the Philharmonie de Paris and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Playing the “Bonjour” Stradivarius...
2018
Le Emie R Roussel Trio s’impose comme un incontournable de la scène jazz actuelle canadienne et connaît depuis 2010 une ascension fulgurante. Formé par Emie R Roussel au piano, Nicolas Bédard à la basse et Dominic Cloutier à la batterie,...
2017
After having hosted the duo Saratoga this year on the occasion of the Festival Aurores Montréal, the sixth edition introduces the singer and musician Emile Bilodeau, who will unveil his debut album Rites de passage. It is with much...
2017
The only Parisian festival dedicated to emerging Canadian music scenes, the Festival Aurores Montréal is back for a 5th edition in Paris to introduce the French to the new Canadian musical talents of tomorrow. This new edition will take over...
2017
Bellflower brings together eight talented musicians around the singer-songwriter Em Pompa whose refined and poetic compositions give birth to songs that are both powerful and gentle. Labelled orchestral pop, the music is underpinned by rich vocal harmonies and the warmth...
2017
The early music ensemble La Chamaille is devoted to the vast repertoire of music from the Renaissance and the Baroque period. The group proposes a musical and literary dialogue between Baroque France and New France in Canada. To the sounds...
2017
Founded in 1951 by Célia Franca and based in Toronto, the National Ballet of Canada is one of the most prestigious companies in the country. Its repertoire is both classical and contemporary. At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris,...
2017
On the occasion of the Semaine des Cultures Étrangères organized by the FICEP, the Canadian Cultural Centre proposes a concert of classical music by the Trio Khnopff. After their studies in the most prestigious European establishments, Stéphanie Salmin, Sadie Fields...
2017
For its 30th anniversary, L’Estival will feature free performances by 30 artists on stage and in the streets of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Poissy, Le Vésinet and Le Pecq. For the Canadian programming, Moran, who visited the Canadian Cultural Centre last year, will...
2017
6 pm–midnight, Esplanade des Invalides – Paris For the sixth consecutive year, takes over the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, one of the most popular events at the Fête de la Musique in Paris. For this new edition, Nuit Boréale...
2017
Then came Médée. When Marc-Antoine Charpentier could finally compose a tragic opera, and have it performed in Paris, in 1693, it was both a high point and a testament. After spending so many years spent prevented from playing anything else...
2017
The Great Novel has been riding on the arid plains for many moons. Bourbon on their breath, they follow a sonic trail that splits the spaghetti western and the white noise of the city they call home. With groaning strings...
2017
The Quebec musicians Misc (formerly known as the Trio Jérôme Beaulieu and winners of the Révélation Jazz Radio Canada prize in 2013–14) are part of the jazz tradition in terms of their vocabulary and the place occupied by improvisation in...
2017
Guillaume Arsenault has been following the pathways and highways of song for more than fifteen years at the wheel of his singer-songwriter pick-up truck. Honest, patient and resourceful, he hunts sounds and words with a shaman’s aplomb. Rooted in folk,...
2017
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal invite renowned choreographers to work with them and participate in many initiatives in favour of the development of dance. They will be debuting in Paris Death and the Maiden by the chorographer Stephan Thoss....
2017
The award-winning guitarist Steve Cowan will be playing a solo concert of his first album, Pour Guitare. The album features an eclectic blend of tracks by Canadian composers and several original pieces and first recordings. The performance will highlight sometimes...
2017
The Canadian pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, who won first prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition and prizes at several national and international competitions, will be playing a programme of virtuoso Russian music, intermingled with quiet contrasting works, allowing the artist...
2016
As part of the Festival Aurores Montréal, the duo Saratoga, comprising musician and songwriter Marc-Olivier Gasse and singer-songwriter Chantal Archambault, will play a concert of folk music that is soft, intimate and genuine. Over the rhythms of a raw and...
2016
The only festival Parisian dedicating to emerging Canadian music scenes, the Festival Aurores Montréal is back for a fourth edition in Paris in order to introduced the Canadian musical talents of tomorrow to the French. This year’s edition will be...
2016
An artist with a cosmopolitan career, Alain Bédard plays contemporary jazz inspired by his many musical experiments combining world beat and classical music. His fifth album, Circum Continuum, is punctuated with pieces whose vibrant and complex melodies, rhythms and harmonics...
2016
Jeff Moran began playing with words and music in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, developing his own style halfway between American folk and chanson française. A rebellious poet, singer and composer, Moran got himself notice in France and the rest...
2016
Thomas Hellman was born in Montreal to an American father and a French mother. For one evening, the brilliant musician and folk singer will recount American history, from the conquest of the West to the Great Depression, through songs from...
2016
For the fifth year in a row, Canada takes over the Esplanade des Invalides with Nuit Boréale, one of the most popular evenings of concerts during the Fête de la Musique in Paris. For this new edition, five up-and-coming artists...
2016
The Canadian company Disques Benedictus proposes the project Fables2016 focused on music rarely performed for baritone and piano or organ. A work by the Bulgarian-Canadian composer will be Alexandra Fol will be centre-stage. Fable2016 sets to music four fables for...
2016
The pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre lets us rediscover some of the key compositions of classical music. The conductor Yannick Nézet Séguin, director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, calls him a poet of the piano. A native of Ste-Julie, near Montreal, Jean-Philippe...
2016
The franco-ontarian singer-songwriter Mehdi Hamdad, known as Mehdi Cayenne, invites you to set the world to right His latest album, Aube, which will be released on June 17 in France, is a collection of love songs sung with a subtle...
2016
The Benoît Paradis Trio invites you to an evening focussing on their latest album T’as-tu toute ? (2015), which features experimentation, whimsy and jazzy pop. Meet a down-to-earth, joyously melancholic chanson-jazz group featuring a slightly crazy singer Benoît Paradis (playing percussion-trombone-trumpet-guitar), accompanied by Chantale...
2015
Émile Proulx-Cloutier is known to the general public for his television and film roles. But in recent years, Émile has revealed himself as a gifted singer-songwriter who is extremely touching. The Canadian public and the media are won over, even...
2015
After two spring editions in 2013 and 2014, the Aurores Montréal festival is back in winter for 2015. Giving Paris audiences the chance to discover the Canadian talents of tomorrow, the third edition of the festival will be held in...