Le Vent du Nord: A North Wind Blows through the OSM 2024-2025
Le Vent du Nord: A North Wind Blows Through the OSM
From the fairy-tale world of The Nutcracker to toe-tapping Quebec folk music, you’re invited to a rousing concert given by the OSM and Le Vent du Nord. This folk group will perform their own music as well as orchestral versions of traditional songs, and reels, jigs, and other lively tunes will swing alongside Tchaikovsky’s scintillating music.
Artists
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Kent Nagano, conductor
Le Vent du Nord
Nicolas Boulerice, voice, hurdy-gurdy, piano
André Brunet, violin, foot percussion, voice
Réjean Brunet, diatonic accordion, piano, bass, jaw harp, voice
Olivier Demers, violin, foot percussion, mandolin, voice
André Gagné, voice , guitar, bouzouki
Programme
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, excerpts (45 min)
Le Vent du Nord, Original works, orchestral versions *
*Canadian work
Quebec folk music, orchestral versions
*Canadian work
Concert without intermission
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Kent Nagano
OSM Conductor EmeritusKent Nagano is acclaimed as an outstanding conductor for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. He has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg since September 2015. In addition, he serves as Artistic Director of the Wagner Readings, a project that aims to revisit Wagner’s Tetralogy from a performance practice perspective, in collaboration with the Concerto Köln Chamber Orchestra and the Dresden Festival Orchestra. Kent Nagano is a patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival, and was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (2006), of the Concerto Köln (2019), and of the OSM (2021).
The many highlights of Kent Nagano’s collaboration with the OSM as Music Director from 2006 to 2020 include the inauguration of the Orchestra’s new concert hall, the Maison symphonique de Montréal in September 2011. Nagano and the OSM have toured in Canada including Northern Quebec, and internationally in Japan, South Korea, Europe (latest tour in 2019), Latin America and the USA. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM on the occasion of the Salzburg Festival opening concert.
Maestro Nagano’s recent recording releases include a 3-CD box set of works by Olivier Messiaen (BR Klassik label, 2021). He also published his second book, 10 Lessons of my Life (Berlin Verlag, 2021) in which he recalls ten highly personal encounters in his life, each bringing important lessons that transcend his career path. Previously, in 2015 Kent Nagano published Erwarten Sie Wunder! (Berlin Verlag), a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today’s world. This book was also published in English (Expect the Unexpected, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019) and in French (Sonnez, Merveilles, Éditions du Boréal, 2015).
