Guitarist Christ Habib and cellist Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy can be performing in Toronto on January 18. The duo’s live performance is a part of the Worldwide Performing Artist Collection of the Guitar Society of Toronto.
The Québec artists will carry out a Tribute to Piazzolla, the Argentinian artist who’s credited with rejuvenating the tango and creating the orchestral kind we all know at this time.
The Music
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla was a musician and arranger in addition to a composer. He studied with famous trainer Nadia Boulanger on the Fontainebleau conservatory, and is credited with revolutionizing the tango as an artwork kind, from its origins in custom to the Nuevo tango that fused the rhythms with jazz and classical music. Whereas controversial at first in his native Argentina, the Nuevo tango turned fashionable in Europe and North America.
He was a virtuoso on the bandoneon, and carried out his personal music with quite a lot of totally different ensembles, together with his personal Orquesta de Cuerdas or String Orchestra.
The duo will interpret his works, together with items by composers who have been influential throughout Piazzolla’s formation as an artist, together with French-Argentine singer-songwriter and composer Carlos Gardel and fellow Argentinian Alberto Ginastera, recognized for his fusion of Argentinian and classical music, jazz nice Duke Ellington, and giants of the classical music world like J.S. Bach, Gabriel Fauré, and Béla Bartok.
A spotlight of this system is Hommage à Piazzolla, an unique piece by Dominique that can function the grand finale of the live performance.
The Musicians
Christ Habib started learning the classical guitar on the age of six, and commenced formal research on the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau on the age of ten. In 2019, he earned a Grasp’s Diploma and the Prize in Chamber Music after 12 12 months of research on the Conservatoire, and made his debut with the Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra the next 12 months in a efficiency of Canadian composer Jacques Hétu’s Concerto for Guitar and Strings, Op.56.
Alongside along with his performances with Dominique, Christ is a member of the Canadian Guitar Quartet, together with Renaud C. Giguère, Jérôme Ducharme, and Louis Trépanier. The CGQ was fashioned in 1999, and has recorded a number of albums in addition to acting on three continents. As a touring ensemble, they’ve developed a world repute for performing each unique music and works within the conventional classical repertoire.
Cellist and composer Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy earned a Grasp’s diploma in efficiency from the College of Montréal, and subsequently attended grasp courses with artists that embody Alisa Weilerstein, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Hans Jørgen Jensen, and Richard Aaron, amongst others.
He has carried out as a soloist in Québec in addition to throughout North America and in Europe, and is a multi-award winner. His wins embody the 2017 Peter Mendell Award, the 2018 Prix d’Europe, and the 2021 Choquette-Symcox Award. Dominique was a semi-finalist of the 2020 Bader & Overton Canadian Cello Competitors.
He’s additionally a devoted chamber musician, and is a member of quite a lot of ensembles, together with the Trio de l’Île, the Andara String Quartet and Hochelaga Trio. His performances seem on a number of recordings of chamber music.
Dominique performs with a David Tecchler cello (1704), utilizing a Pierre Simon bow (c. 1855), supplied to him by Canimex Inc., a producing firm positioned in Drummondville.
- Discover extra data and tickets to the live performance on January 18 [HERE].
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