The Orchestre symphonique de Laval will be giving three performances at Mondial Choral – an international celebration of the choral arts in all their variety – tonight (June 18) through June 21. The orchestra will give two concerts under the leadership of Music Director Alain Trudel, June 18 (in a program that features excerpts from Carmina Burana, as well as works by Wagner, Barber, Mussorgsky and Sibelius) and June 20 (in a program celebrating the artistry of tenor Marc Hervieux). Both concerts take place at the outdoor stage at l’Espace Montmorency. On June 21, the strings of the orchestra move inside for a concert of music by Estonian mystic Arvo Part, featuring the Elora Festival Singers and their conductor Noel Edison. That concert takes place at the Sainte-Rose-de-Lima Church in Laval. For more information, please visit the festival’s website here.

The Orchestre symphonique de Laval (under the leadership of Music Director Alain Trudel) has just announced its 25th anniversary season, and it’s a rich one!  Highlights include Alain Lefèvre’s performance of André Mathieu’s Piano Concerto No. 4, the world premiere of a new work by Tim Brady and Michel Rivard, and a return appearance in an all-Brahms program by former music director Jean-François Rivest.  The season will also mark the introduction of a new two-concert chamber music series featuring members of the orchestra.  For more information, please visit  here.

The Orchestre symphonique de Laval will present an intriguing program on January 27, in celebration of Mozart’s birthday and stellar young talent!  The orchestra, under the leadership of Alain Trudel, has invited a quartet of young soloists from the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, and a massed choir made up of the Petits Chanteurs de Laval and the Voix Boreales (Philippe Ostiguy, music director) for a program that includes Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Requiem, K. 626, along with the world premiere of a new piece by OSL Composer in Residence Tim Brady, entitled Requiem 21.5. 

The concert takes place at 8 p.m. at the salle André-Mathieu in Laval.

For more information, you can visit the orchestra’s website here.

A number of Quebec orchestras and ensembles will be highlighting their new seasons through participation in Les Journées de la Culture, from September 25-27.  Les Journées are a project of Culture pour tous, an organization whose mission is to contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec and which “arose from the firm conviction that the arts and culture are at the heart of Quebec’s social and economic development”.

From our quick scan of the website, we’ve identified the following orchestras as taking part in this year’s event:

• Les Violons du Roy (in collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Quebec) will present a free concert at the Gabrielle-Roy Library at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, under the leadership of their new resident conductor Eric Paetkau;
• The Orchestre symphonique de Laval will present an open dress rehearsal, led by music director Alain Trudel, featuring piano soloist Anton Kuerti on Sunday from 3-4:30 p.m. at the Chapelle de l’école secondaire Mont-de-La Salle in Laval;
• The Orchestre symphonique de jeunes Philippe Filion will present an open rehearsal and opportunity for discussion with the conductor and young musicians, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Centre des Arts in Shawinigan;
• The Orchestre symphonique de Lévis will present a concert with commentary entitled  entitled Mozart’s Requiem Demystified, Sunday from 2-3:30 p.m. at Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire in Lévis;
• The Nouvel Ensemble Moderne will present a reading of a new work by Denys Boulian, led by music director Lorraine Vaillancourt at Montreal’s Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, Saturday from 2-5 p.m.

For more information about this remarkable, province-wide event, please click here.