Émilie Girard-Charest, Cello and Ensemble
- Date
- 23 September 2018
Émilie Girard-Charest contemporary and experimental music for cello
Sunday, September 23 9:00 pm // Teatro Auditorium, Mar del Plata Sala Nachmann Tickets: $100.-
Émilie Girard-Charest (cello)
Ensamble Negra40 (guests) Martín Virgili (guitar) Jorge Ihlenfeld (voice) Pamela Guruciaga (voice)
Montreal cellist, composer, and improviser Émilie Girard-Charest brings to Mar del Plata an up-to-date panorama of the cello repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. The concert will also feature the premiere of “chelo y ensamble” (“cello and ensemble”) by Tomás Cabado, winner of the N40 open call held on the occasion of Émilie’s visit to Argentina.
Program
first part
“Sin fuelle” (2011) Facundo Llompart (1979)
“S’offrir” (2015) Émilie Girard-Charest – (1987)
“…il remoto silenzio” (2002) Graciela Paraskevaidis (1940 – 2017)
“Kottos” (1977) Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001)
intermission
second part
“chelo y ensamble” (2018)* Tomás Cabado (1993)
Émilie Girard-Charest is a cellist, composer, and improviser. Whether as a soloist or within various ensembles (Allogene, SuperMusic, La Machine, Quatuor d’occasion, Stéphane Pécas, Tallinn Ensemble for New Music, the duo Collard-Neven-Girard-Charest, Émilie e Ida), she is an active presence on the new-music scene.
As a performer, she has taken part in more than sixty creations and has worked with many composers, including Malcolm Goldstein, Michel Gonneville, Maxime McKinley, Joane Hétu, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Hans Zender, Graciela Paraskevaidis, Enno Poppe, and Fredrik Gran.
Émilie graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in cello (studying with Denis Brott) and composition (studying with Michel Gonneville). She also holds a CoPeCo master’s degree (contemporary performance and composition) from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies under the direction of Philippe Hurel and Laurent Pottier at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon, where in September 2016 she began a doctorate on developing an ergonomic notation for cello microtonality.
She received the Career Development Grant from the Fondation du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (2014) and the Fernand-Lindsay Composition Prize (2015).
For more information, see: https://www.emiliegirardcharest.com/apropos