ABOUT I MUSICI DE MONTREAL:
Founded by cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montréal is a chamber orchestra of 15 musicians that presents a vast repertoire extending from the baroque to the contemporary. The orchestra presents a busy schedule of over 100 concerts per season throughout the world including three prestigious series in Montreal. This extraordinary amount of activity places I Musici amongst the most important touring orchestras in Canada.
In December of 1998, the Conseil québecois de la musique gave two Opus Awards to the orchestra for Recording Event of the Year and Best Recording - contemporary music for a CD grouping works by Gorecki, Pärt and Schnittke. In 1999, I Musici was awarded the Grand Prix des Arts by the Montreal Urban Community for their exceptional contribution to music presentation in and around Montreal.
In August 2001, BBC Music Magazine rewarded I Musici’s 40th CD by naming it their CD of the Month, calling it a Russian Tour de Force. The program of Miaskovsky, Schnittke and Denisov was thus honoured around the world. In April of 2002, I Musici was nominated for another Canadian Juno Award as Best Classical Album of the Year, this after having won a Juno for their recording of Ginestera, Villa-Lobos and Evangelista. Further more, the Orchestra’s recording, The Modern Cello, has received rave reviews from the prestigious Parisian magazine Diapason, qualifying the Orchestra’s interpretation as "virtuosité étincelante".
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REPERTOIRE:
Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence
Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, op. 49
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition with Choreographed Paintings (Projections)
Special notes on the repertoire:
Pictures at an Exhibition is performed before a large-screen projection of a new film created by painter Natasha Turovsky. Awarded an Excellence in Cinema Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (2007), she has recreated the lost paintings that inspired Mussorgsky’s work. Each one created to accompany the corresponding movements of the piece, the paintings have been digitized into melodic movement.
Read a letter from Yuli Turovsky explaining the creative concept behind Pictures at an Exhibition.
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