EVENTS

Jazz and our sweet MCO Strings join the mellifluous, smoky voice of Canada’s great actress -jazz chanteuse Dorothée Berryman and her ensemble as she sings songs from the great American songbook: Porter, Rodgers and Hart. Billy Strayhorn's Lush life….and perhaps one or two French ''chansons''.

The great Trumpeter Jens Lindemann plays trumpet, piccolo and flugel – music from the classics and Baroque to Duke Ellington. Lindemann and the orchestra will transport you to a land of smiles where time stands still.

Montréal’s first Messiah – always a sell out. Canada’s best countertenor Daniel Taylor joins Marie-Eve Munger, Benjamin Taylor and Alex Dobson – a dream cast for this magnum opus joins the professional voices of the Christ Church Choir led by Patrick Wedd. Your subscription wins you the best seat in the church.

Janina Fialkowska is recognized as one of Montréal’s greatest musical exports. She graces the world’s stages with stirring interpretations of Chopin and Beethoven. MCO’s founder Alexander Brott brings Beethoven’s Québec connection to life. “Freu dich des Lebens” a short canon which Beethoven gave as a gift to Québec music teacher Theodore Molt, is transmogrified into a series of orchestral variations of contrasting fire and serene beauty created for Beethoven’s bicentenary.

Opéra de Montréal's fabulous Atelier lyrique joins the MCO for performances of highlights from Mozart's "Italian” operas Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni. These fabulous young professional voices - in costume and action in concert - will make for an evening of enchantment.

Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel not only shared the birth-year of 1685, but also the ability to write rousing choruses for their dramatic works for the church and stage. The McGill Concert Choir led by Robert Ingari brings these exciting works to life with our great orchestra.

Two great Montréal institutions - the McGill Chamber Orchestra and the Ensemble contemporaine de Montreal, continue the MCO tradition of performing world premieres. The wondrous garden of enchantment of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite surrounds the music of Canada’s future Ravels and Rachmaninoffs. A cool evening of multi-media and amazing impressions!

"Lindsay is one of the most interesting, imaginative and downright thrilling young violinists in America today." Says Jeffrey Kahane, Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Come and experience Lindsay Deutsch in an unusual pairing of Four Season’s interpretation from the familiar Italian Baroque of Vivaldi through the sensual Brazilian Tango’s of Astor Piazzolla to Mark O’Connor’s Jazz inspired American Spring. Great music – spectacularly performed.