Université de Montréal / Music Faculty

A large-scale jazz concert showcasing the Université de Montréal Big Band and its new music director, Brazilian trumpeter João Lenhari, along with the new generation in jazz composition!

At this evening event you’ll discover original creations as well as arrangements by students in the class of Jean-Nicolas Trottier, as performed by the Big Band.

The Faculty of Music benefits from the support of the Sophie Desmarais fund for the Big Band of the University of Montreal.

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For this South American–accented concert, two internationally renowned artists, Brazilian singer Catina DeLuna and Venezuelan pianist Otmaro Ruíz, join forces with young virtuoso performers from the UdeM Big Band. Catina DeLuna is recognized for her rich and multicolored voice, whose charm possesses a touch of nostalgia. An eclectic musician, Otmaro Ruíz has performed around the world, taking on rock, fusion, jazz and Latin music with equal felicity. An evening not to be missed!

The Faculty of Music benefits from the support of the Sophie Desmarais Fund for the Université de Montréal Big Band

During their stay at the Faculty of Music, Catina DeLuna and Otmaro Ruíz together will offer a free public masterclass on Wednesday, November 29, at 4:00 p.m. in Salle Serge-Garant.

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The Université de Montréal Big Band welcomes clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen. Regarded as one of the finest clarinetists in jazz, she shines with her expressive virtuosity, her charisma and her inspired playing. Nominated for a Grammy Award on a number of occasions, Anat Cohen was also inducted into the Jazz Wall of Fame of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 2009. Consider this your invitation to attend an exceptional event with a prodigious musician and the UdeM Big Band!

At this concert, the students winning the Dr. Stephen and Susan Fichman Jazz Awards will be announced.

The Faculty of Music benefits from the support of the Sophie Desmarais Fund for the Université de Montréal Big Band.

During her stay at the Faculty of Music, Anat Cohen will offer a public masterclass on Tuesday, March 26 at 4:30 p.m. at Salle Claude-Champagne.

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Atelier d’opéra de l’UdeM 
Richard Margison and Robin Wheeler, Atelier d’opéra direction 

Performing for the very first time at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Bourgie Hall, the UdeM Opera Studio presents an exciting musical journey through great opera arias. Since its official birth in 17th-century Italy, opera has exerted a continuous attraction on composers, many of whom have left us memorable works. Combining theater and music, the genre fascinates and deeply moves us. Let yourself be seduced by the remarkable voices of Faculty of Music students in classical singing, and enjoy stirring moments courtesy of excerpts from the most celebrated lyric scores accompanied on the piano.

On the program are works by Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Bernstein, and Humperdinck.

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A prince charged with freeing a princess imprisoned by a false tyrant; a malevolent queen of seductive beauty; a good-hearted, bumbling bird catcher and a magic flute to overcome evil: neither a tale by Perrault nor a legend from the Brothers Grimm, but rather one of the most fascinating operas in the history of music, Mozart’s Magic Flute.

Blending enchantment, esotericism and humorous situations, the work was considered a wonder in Germany beginning with its premiere in 1791. And what is there to say about Mozart’s incredible music? The best thing would be to come discover it in the company of the UdeM Opera Studio and Orchestra, directed by Jean-François Rivest in a staging by Patrick R. Lacharité.

As to the opera’s fantastic character, that will allow students in composition and sound creation to give free rein to their imagination in creating original scenery designed on the basis of video mapping and lighting installations.

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