Innovations en concert is excited to participate in two days of the official programming of the Journées de la culture de Montréal, in collaboration with St. James United Church and Culture pour tous! Visitors are welcome to request a guided tour or a specific explanation from a member of the church’s team at any time after the doors open and before the concert begins. After the performance, the artists will remain on site to answer audience questions and show the instruments to anyone interested!

Saturday, September 28, 7:30 pm:

Cosmique – Meditations on distance

Isak Goldschneider, piano

Join pianist Isak Goldschneider as he guides the listener on an hour-long journey through vast and varied sonic landscapes in the concert programme Cosmique! Works by Howard Skempton, Linda Catlin Smith, Domenico Scarlatti, and Jō Kondō will explore four different portrayals of distance – the distances of interstellar space, of the passions of the heart, of human history, and of the subatomic microcosm.

Programme:

Howard Skempton: Notti stellate a Vagli 

Linda Catlin Smith: A Nocturne

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K296

Jō Kondō: Sight Rhythmics

Composer, producer, performing musician and conductor Isak Goldschneider has worked extensively in diverse genres including classical, jazz, actuelle, and traditional musics. As Artistic Director of Montreal’s cutting-edge concert series Innovations en Concert and conductor of the ensemble Novarumori, as well as in the capacity of freelance musician, he’s contributed to work by leading Canadian and international artists including Alexandra Fol, Jessica Moss, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Nicole Lizée, Leonard Cohen and Gavin Bryars.

Sunday, September 29, 2 pm:

Canadian Bacon Quintet

Programme:

Elizabeth Raum: King Lear Fantasy

Alexandra Fol: DWQ

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Christopher Byman: The Sky Harbour Suite

John Estacio: Sinfonietta             

The Canadian Bacon Quintet, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was formed by flutist and artistic director Charmaine Bacon in 2016. Their mission: explore and share both standard repertoire and newly written music for woodwind quintet. Canadian Bacon has collaborated with guest pianists Michael Oike and Rachel Hinton, organist Michael Cutler, and the Hurrycane Quintet. The group has also performed in outreach programs for schools across Winnipeg and been asked to premiere repertoire by composers across Canada. The permanent members are flutist Charmaine Bacon, oboist Kim Pelletier, bassoonist Dr. Scott Miller, French hornist Callie Siverson, and clarinetist Colin Mehmel. Canadian Bacon is looking forward to visiting Montreal to share an all-Canadian program with Quebec audiences!

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Innovations en concert would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the SOCAN Foundation for their support.