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Quatuor Bozzini • Residence: Montréal, Québec Isabelle Bozzini • Stéphanie Bozzini • Charles-Étienne Marchand • Clemens Merkel
Moving freely from avant-garde events to traditional concerts, the Quatuor Bozzini was characterized by the Irish Times as a “group which gets its teeth into music: quiet or loud, fast or slow, these Canadian musicians play with compelling engagement”. Devoted to music as a universal language, these four artists communicate an aesthetic that transcends the tastes of any particular era or musical tradition; playing music that is famous and music that is unknown, music familiar and music strange, music old and music new. The Quatuor Bozzini was laureate of two Conseil québécois de la musique’s Prix Opus: Discovery of the year in 2001, and Disc of the year 2004-05 for its album Portrait Montréal. The group especially enjoys collaborations with living composers, premiering quartets of such diverse artists as Christian Wolff, Michael Oesterle, Malcolm Goldstein, Gerald Barry, Tom Johnson, Jean Lesage, Chiyoko Slavnics, Jo Kondo, James Tenney, Linda Smith, Jürg Frey, Jean-François Laporte, Denys Bouliane and many others. One of Canada’s leading Quartets, the ensemble produces a serie in Montréal and has played in many Canadian and American cities. Regular tours in Europe have taken the ensemble to Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Island, England and Czech Republic. They have performed in major festivals and venues such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Berlin MaerzMusik, Nordic Music Days, Ars Nova, June in Buffalo, Crash Festival in Dublin, Festival Montréal/Nouvelles musiques, Festival international du Domaine Forget as well as Merkin Hall (New York City), CalArts (Los Angeles) Parkteatret in Oslo and Gare Du Nord in Basel. The Quatuor Bozzini is frequently heard on CBC and SRC, Deutschlandfunk (DLF), Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Sveriges Radio (SR). In addition to the Montréal series at Tanna Schulich Hall and the Composer’s Kitchen’s fourth edition in May 2008, the present season includes a Canadian tour, two European tours and a recording at the Deutschlandfunk in Köln (Germany). This season, the Quatuor Bozzini has performed as well (and for the first time) in Austria and Italy and it has made its Toronto debut in the Music Toronto Series. Canons et Hoquets, the new disc featuring Jo Kondo and Howard Skempton’s quartets has been released in the fall of 2007 on the quartet’s label, collection qb (DAME). In the spring of 2008, Quatuor Bozzini will record the complete set of the composer James Tenney’s string quartets and quintets. The season 2008-09 will feature debut performances in the Netherlands (Shift, Amsterdam) and in France (Présences, Paris) as well as concerts in Huddersfield (UK), Graz (Austria), Boras (Sweden), San Francisco, Toronto and at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. [source: www.quatuorbozzini.ca] [xii-07] actuellecd.com Quatuor Bozzini: biography |
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