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Espace culturel Saint-Gilles
562, route des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham (Qc) J8G 1V2
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The Saint-Gilles Cultural Space opened its doors to the public for its first annual program in the fall of 2021 as a result of a personal initiative. The director of what is now the NPO ECSG / SGCC (Espace culturel Saint-Gilles / Saint-Gilles Cultural Centre), acquired a former Methodist-Presbyterian church built in 1830 in the scenic and heritage area of Cushing, Brownsburg-Chatham, whose space is perfectly suited to hosting small musical and theatrical ensembles as well as other artistic groups. The venue’s character and architecture provide exceptional acoustics and allow patrons to experience events in an intimate and cozy atmosphere while providing them access to this historic building on the old Front of Chatham that has played a leading role in the region over the years.
In this splendid building, dating back almost 200 years, able to accommodate up to 125 people, we offer to citizens of the Regional County Municipality of Argenteuil and beyond, musical performances (classical, jazz, chanson, folk, etc.), literary events (storytelling, poetry, slam, author’s booths and workshops, etc.), arthouse cinema (partnership with the Ciné-Club La Branche, member of the Association des cinémas parallèles du Québec), visual arts events (openings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, etc.), and much more.
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PROGRAMMING
Chloé Dumoulin, pianist
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles
General Admission: $25 | FADOQ: $22,50 | Students: $10
Buy your ticketsDuo Vivo present “CON FUOCO”
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg
General Admission 43,19 | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88 | Student 12 years and more 19,16$
Buy your ticketsClaude Debussy: Forgotten Images
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles
Stéphane Tétreault (cello) & Olivier Hébert-Bouchard (piano)
General Admission: $35 | FADOQ: $31,50 | Students: $15
Buy your ticketsQuatuor À vent scène
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles
Richard Leduc: flute and alto saxophone | Michel Dubeau: Bass clarinet, shakuhachi (Japanese traditional flute) Irish whistle, soprano clarinet, little bagpipe | Yvan L’Allier: tenor saxophone and alto saxophone | Raoul Cyr: trombone, bugle
The Quatuor À vent scène invites you to a musical journey through time and continents. The four members of this ensemble use no less than nine different instruments, giving them access to a sound palette of great harmonic richness.
The repertoire spans from the Renaissance to the present day, covering more than 500 years of musical history with incursions into the world of ethnic music, traditional jazz and film music
General Admission: 43,19$| FADOQ or ECSG member: 38,98$ | Students: 19,16$
Buy your ticketsConcert for Ecology
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles
Anne-Marie Dubois, pianist
General Admission 37,18$ | FADOQ or ECSG member 33,57$ | Students 19,16$ | FADOQ & ECSG member 31,77$
Buy your ticketsFrederic Vaysse-Knitter, piano
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg
General admission 43,19$ | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88$ | Student 12 years and less 19,16$
Buy your ticketsThierry Bégin-Lamontagne, guitarist
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg
General Admission 43,19$| FADOQ or ECSG member 38,98$ | Students 19,16$ | FADOQ & ECSG member 36,88$
Buy your ticketsDuo Cavatine
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello & Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, piano
United by a deep passion for music, Duo Cavatine is above all a long story of friendship. Their duo name is inspired by Poulenc’s sonata for cello and piano, the very first work they played together.
Praised for their sensitive yet dynamic personalities, these “two fabulous young artists […] merge their talents for our great pleasure. Their interpretation is refined, full of energy and filled with sweetness.” (Journal des Citoyens)
General admission 43,19$ | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88$ | Student 12 years and less 19,16$
Buy your ticketsDis, quand reviendras-tu?
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Ensemble Mirabilia
Soprano Myriam Leblanc, accompanied by Grégoire Jeay on flute and Sylvain Bergeron on guitar and archlute, brings you baroque and modern songs on the eternal theme of love. A musical journey where poets and composers from all eras and countries join in the magnificent madness that has inspired them so much.
Love, without temporal boundaries, offers a passport for music to express itself in all its states and characteristic colors, giving the listener the opportunity to savor works that have nothing in common at first glance, but are united by this universal theme and these particular instruments.
General admission 43,19$ | FADOQ ou ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ et ECSG Member 36,88$ | Student 12 ans and more 19,16$
Buy your ticketsLes cités invisibles
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
The famous duo of Marina Thibeault and Janelle Fung delight international audiences with their captivating interpretations and engaging presence. They will perform a captivating programme for viola and piano covering the music of the London Edwardian era by female composers ranging from Rebecca Clarke to contemporary masterpieces by Charlotte Bray and Dobrinka Tabakova. Thanks to the enchanting power of these magnificent musical works, this program commemorates the remarkable progress made on the path of equality and deep respect for each individual. It also pays tribute to the enduring optimism that fuels our ongoing efforts to advance this noble goal.
General Admission 43,19 | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88 | Student 12 years and more 19,16$
Buy your ticketsExtravaganza
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Diliana Momtchilova – Cello
Inti Manzi – Violin
Mehdi Ghazi – Piano
Special Guest: Annie Morrier, alto
Program: Beethoven, Schubert, Fauré, Kreisler
General Admission 43,19 | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88 | Student 12 years and more 19,16$
Ravel, Gershwin & cie
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Jean-Michel Dubé and Rosemarie Duval-Laplante, pianists
General Admission 43,19 | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88 | Student 12 years and more 19,16$
The Nine Maidens
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Ensemble Ménestrel • Janelle Lucyk, voice & violin • Kerry Bursey, voice & lute
Through voices, a myriad of plucked strings, and some violin, Ménestrel performs old music in an intimate manner, with ayres and ballads recounting the transience of good fortune in the life of a voyager. In The Nine Maidens, these English-language folk songs provide vivid imagery of age-old expeditions, daring escapes and voyaging delights. In response to the action packed folk songs, baroque airs offer reflection and represent the inward feelings of the heroines. The program includes music by Purcell, Dowland, Gilles Binchois, and Guillaume de Machaut.
General admission 43,19$ | FADOQ or ECSG Member 38,98$ | FADOQ and ECSG Member 36,88$ | Student 12 years and less 19,16$
Duo Laporte-Muller
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg
Marc Muller studied music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. After obtaining five first prizes (violin, musical training, chamber music, deciphering and acoustics), he perfected with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Jacques Ghestem. Lecturer at the Conservatoire between 1983 and 1986, he was during the same period Violin Solo of the Chamber Orchestra of the Conservatoire under the direction of Roger Albin. He joined the first violins section of the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986. Alongside his activity as an orchestral musician, he has developed, since the beginning of his career, a wide practice of chamber musician in the most varied formations.
Antoine Laporte holds a Master’s in piano from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and an artist’s degree from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto. Her main teachers were Suzanne Goyette, Richard Raymond and John O’Conor. He has performed with the Orchestre symphonique de Laval et de Longueuil, the Sinfonia and the Orchestre Philharmonia Mundi de Montréal, the Orchestre de l’Agora and the Cathedral Bluffs Symphonic Orchestra in Toronto. He won a 3rd Prize at the Prix d’Europe competition in Montreal in 2018. In 2021, he released a double album dedicated to the piano works of Pierné, which received excellent reviews and was broadcast on Radio-Canada, France Musique and Radio Classique.
General admission $34,49 | ECSG or FADOQ members $31,04 | Students $17,25
“Consolations” with Antoine Malette-Chénier, harpist
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
Creative and innovative harpist, Antoine Malette-Chénier plays a repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque, on period instruments, to contemporary music. Solo harpist with the Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières and sought-after musician for his versatility, he has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and continuist with several ensembles in Canada and abroad, including the Orchestre Métropolitain, Les Voix humaines and Les Violons du Roy. Antoine is the recipient of the 2014 Michael Measures Award from the Canada Council for the Arts and a 1st Prize at the 2013 OSM Standard Life Competition. Winner of many concerto competitions, he has performed as soloist with orchestra in Canada, the United States, France and Hungary. A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières, the Université de Montréal, McGill University and the Yale School of Music, Antoine also holds a master’s degree in historical harps from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon.
General admission $34,49 | ECSG or FADOQ members $31,04 | Students $17,25
Encore Baroque
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Encore Baroque presents performances by major composers for the harpsichord. In addition, and this is certainly a first, it will make you discover themes that Couperin probably heard on the street, of «Airs de vielleux» performed to the baroque old-wheel, instrument which was very popular at Versailles around 1720.
Discover or rediscover magnificent works by Fischer, Bach, Couperin and Scarlatti, sometimes less known, that Pierre Lavigne knows how to highlight.
General admission 34,49$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 31,04$ | Students 12 years and + 17,25$
De l’autre côté du miroir
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
The musical experience “On the other side of the mirror”, as imagined and presented by the duo Cordelia, comes to shake up the conventional landmarks of the chamber music concert. Contemplation, humor and rapture are at the rendezvous as the two experienced musicians of this violin-ensemblepiano lead their audience into an innovative musical adventure by highlighting a diverse repertoire from the work of revolutionary composers or politically committed to their time, as well as original compositions by violinist Vanessa Marcoux.
Inspired by the resilience of these artists for whom escape to fabulous musical landscapes was the only possible way out of the realities of their time, Duo Cordelia testifies to the depth of our essential relationship with music. And at times, the repertoire giving way to improvisation, the room unites for a moment in an impetus of shared creation.
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Students 12 years and + 17,25$
Aux deux hémisphères
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg
Aux deux hémisphères presents on stage the compositions and works of inspiration from the first album by cellist and composer Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy, with his acolyte, pianist Jean-Michel Dubé.
Presented in an original formula and accessible to all audiences, Aux deux hémisphères really allows you to enter the process of creation of Dominique: not only are on the program original compositions, but also featured works of the repertoire for cello and piano that were sources of inspiration in the writing process of the young composer and cellist.
In both hemispheres, it makes us travel between the torment and passion of post-romantic European composers such as Rachmaninov and Fauré, the heat and fiery rhythms of Argentine composers such as Piazzolla, to finally land here, in Quebec, in this universe inspired and tinged by these two hemispheres.
Lyricism, virtuosity, intensity and discovery: this is what awaits you with Aux deux hémisphères.
General admission 34,49$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 31,04$ | Students and + 17,25$
Autour de Lili Boulanger
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatam
Uliana Drugova, violon • Michel-Alexandre Broekaert, piano
With a program for piano and violin, this concert explores the universe of the French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). The performance of the pieces alternates with commentaries highlighting the close links that have been forged between Lili Boulanger and composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Bacewicz and Piazzolla. By bringing together all these artists in one musical moment, we are reimagining a 20th century French salon, where women have their place as much as men. How far would his fate have taken her if the disease had not taken Lili Boulanger at the age of twenty-four?
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years old and more 17,25$
Didem Basar, kanun & Patrick Graham, percussion
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais, Brownsburg-Chatham
Experience a rich musical journey from the Ottoman era to today with Istanbul-born kanun player Didem Başar and Montreal percussionist Patrick Graham. Blending classical and folk traditions with original compositions and improvisation, this unique duo brings East and West together through the soulful sounds of strings and rhythm.
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
De Bach à Zappa
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
With From Bach to Zappa, Quasar offers an eclectic, energetic and festive concert that reveals the many facets of the saxophone. Between the universe of the great baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach and that of Frank Zappa, the quartet crosses in 75 minutes a distance for the least cosmic, while passing by Alexander Glazounov, which offers us the unique romantic masterpiece for saxophones or Will Gregory, whose piece will make ‘giguer’ the baritone sax (to name just a few)… while granting
a prominent place for new Quebec works created by Quasar over the past three decades.
Presented for the first time as part of the series “Le Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée” on the island of Montreal, the concert Bach à Zappa was also presented across Quebec (Forestville, Rimouski, Quebec, Shawinigan, Havre-Saint-Pierre, Richmond, Victoriaville, etc.), in the Yukon, in California, in Bulgaria, in Estonia, in Russia as well as in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
Nebulae
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
The harp positions itself as a witness to the evolution of humans and their relationship with the universe. From the primary instrument called the lyre which it evokes in a constellation, then transcended by a complex harp with a thousand possibilities; a parallel is drawn between the evolution of art and science.
This grandiose and omnipotent journey predisposes a philosophical reflection on existence. Ultimately, the human being adopts a humble positioning in relation to the universe. He becomes autonomous, realizing that the grandeur of reality around him is in itself poetry
This intimate concert tinged with reflections inspired by the astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Hubert Reeves, humor and intoxicating music will weave a precious link between the artist and the music lovers.
The new show Nebulae by harpist Valérie Milot presents an artistic and philosophical reflection inspired by space exploration.
The harp positions itself as a witness to the evolution of humans and their relationship with the universe. From the primary instrument called the lyre which it evokes in a constellation, then transcended by a complex harp with a thousand possibilities; a parallel is drawn between the evolution of art and science.
This grandiose and omnipotent journey predisposes a philosophical reflection on existence. Ultimately, the human being adopts a humble positioning in relation to the universe. He becomes autonomous, realizing that the grandeur of reality around him is in itself poetry
This intimate concert tinged with reflections inspired by the astrophysicists Carl Sagan and Hubert Reeves, humor and intoxicating music will weave a precious link between the artist and the music lovers.
Valérie Milot is a musician and entrepreneur who makes her way off the beaten track. Defending the harp at the front of the stage, she dusts it with her shots by highlighting its power and unsuspected sounds.
Sought-after soloist, Valérie regularly performs a rich concertante repertoire with orchestra (Les Violons du Roy, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal) with recognized conductors (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bernard Labadie, Nicolas Ellis, Mathieu Lussier, Jean-François Rivest, among others). Prominent musician on the web, her YouTube channel has accumulated more than three million views on her musical performances.
Recognized by his peers and the public, numerous awards mark his career. In 2008, Valérie received the Prix avec Grande Distinction at the end of her studies at the Conservatoire with Caroline Lizotte, and won the Prix d’Europe. She is also the first harpist in almost 100 years to win this important scholarship which allowed her to study in New York with Rita Costanzi. Several awards follow thereafter, including Revelation of the year Radio-Canada, Prize for performance at the International Harp Competition of the Cité des Arts de Paris, Opus Discovery Award of the year, the Creation Performing Arts Award at the Arts Excellence gala of Culture Mauricie, as well as several nominations at the ADISQ Gala.
Valérie plays on an ‘Apollonia’ harp by Salvi, graciously lent by the company Canimex in Drummondville, owned by the patron Roger Dubois. Activity offered as part of the Journées de la culture.
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Portrait musical – Table ronde et récital
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
The very idea of ‘musical portrait’ has the appeal of paradox. Indeed, as Carl Dahlhaus traced its genesis in L’Idée de la musique absolue (Genève, Contrechamps, 1997), the discourses on music in the Romantic age, relayed and reinforced by formalist aesthetics, have imposed a conception of music as non-significant art and unfit for representation. Although it is nowadays criticized and relativized, this thought remains nonetheless dominant, if only in the form of a theoretical «unconscious». How to understand and consider, in these conditions, the persistence of a mimetic imagination among composers, and the poetic fertility of the notion of “portrait” in the musical repertoire?
Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter, pianist
Speakers:
Fabienne Bercegol, Professor and Director of the research team “Heritage, Literature, History” at the Jean Jaurès University in Toulouse
Frederic Sounac, Professor of Literature and writer
David Chaillou, Composer
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
Entre amis : La musique de Brahms et Schumann
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
The cellist Thomas Chartré and the pianist Serhiy Salov play the great works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, two composers who shared one of the most famous friendships in the history of music. In this concert rich in intense and varied emotions, you will be able to find the great instrumental works of these composers and rediscover the vocal works in unpublished transcriptions.
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
Guitaromanie
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
The Guitaromanie concert brings back to life the frenzy and wonder of a musical performance where spontaneity blends with virtuosity. It brings together masterpieces of guitar that attracted crowds and made the music salons all over Europe vibrate. Whether it was an operatic fantasia by Mauro Giuliani, a sonata by Niccolo Paganini or a varied theme by Fernando Sor, the European audience was fond of new works for guitar. Sometimes imbued with clarity and rigor, sometimes sprinkled with brilliant theatricals, romantic music for guitar always charms thanks to its richness and diversity
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
La bergère
Espace culturel Saint-Gilles, 562, Rte des Outaouais
With her first solo album, La bergère, released in September 2020, produced with ATMA Classique and bringing together the best musicians of the Montreal baroque scene, soprano Marie Magistry brings to life the charm of 17th-century French court music.
General admission 40,24$ | Member FADOQ or ECSG 36,22$ | Member FADOQ & ECSG 32,19$ | Students 11 years and more 17,25$
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