Innovations en concert is proud to open its 2025–2026 season at La Sala Rossa with Ensemble Urbaine Musique’s unique performance Origines. This conductorless Montréal-based string ensemble is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices and reimagining how chamber music lives within the community. By bringing music into intimate and unconventional spaces, they create concerts that dissolve barriers, spark dialogue, and invite listeners to experience something new.

In Origines, Ensemble Urbaine Musique explores how memory and tradition can illuminate future paths. At the heart of the program are two works by Geneviève Gros-Louis, composer selected for the Museond Fund for Creativity’s inaugural Indigenous Creativity in Musical Composition Project, presented alongside music by Grazyna Bacewicz and Edvard Grieg: encounters across time and culture revealing tradition as a living source of renewal.

Geneviève Gros-Louis, a violinist, composer, and producer from the Huron-Wendat Nation, has garnered international recognition for her contributions to film, music, and fashion. She transforms personal experience into artistic purpose, shedding light on the challenges faced by Indigenous communities. A graduate of McGill University, she has shared her work at the Cannes Film Festival, Paris Fashion Week, Strawberry Moon Festival, Santa Fe Indian Market, and in museums across North America, also scoring projects for National Geographic and the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

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This project has been made possible by the generous support of the Museond Fund for Creativity, with additional support from the Guilde des musiciens et musiciennes du Québec.

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We 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.