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about the tour.
For November 2024, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare have been able to secure star pianist Daniil Trifonov as soloist.
The first European tours of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under the direction of Rafal Payare in August and November 2024 will be offered jointly by Askonas Holt and KD SCHMID.
Claude Vivier: Orion (1979)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 15
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Robert Schumann: Klavierkonzert a-Moll op. 54
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Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14 (Episoden aus dem Leben eines Künstlers)
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Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie op. 64 für großes Orchester (1911/15)
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An Orchestra full of experience.
Biography – about the orchestra.
Founded in 1934 by Antonia Nantel, Wilfrid Pelletier and Athanase David, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is a distinguished leader in the musical life of Quebec and Canada and is internationally recognized as one of the finest orchestras in the world. A frontline cultural ambassador, the OSM welcomes the world’s greatest conductors and soloists to the Maison symphonique de Montréal each year. Under the direction of Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, the Orchestra continues to fulfill many rich traditions that stem from the Orchestra’s long history of social involvement, far-reaching projects, world-class tours, and superb recordings.
The orchestra’s regular artistic season features over 100 concerts at the Maison symphonique and other venues, augmented by numerous series: concerts with the OSM Chorus, concerts for the family, bold “éclaté” events, OSM Pop and chamber music concerts, recitals on the majestic Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, musical tales, concerts for the holidays, and music and film. These are all exceptional encounters that enrich the community’s cultural life. A wide range of concerts and musical events also extends into the summer months: free concerts in the parks, festival performances, and the astonishingly varied programming of the OSM’s very own summer festival, the Classical Spree. Unique in North America, over several days the Classical Spree brings together diverse and far-ranging audiences for indoor concerts, free concerts and a multitude of activities that combine to make the event a true celebration of classical music in the heart of downtown Montreal. Rooted in today’s world, the OSM refreshes the symphonic repertoire while firmly maintaining its place at the heart of Quebec’s great metropolis, supporting events that mark the city’s history and commissioning new works by composers from here and elsewhere.
The OSM boasts a long and brilliant history of some fifty tours, as well as numerous concerts across Canada and abroad. On its first tour to Europe in 1962 with Zubin Mehta, it performed in Vienna, Paris, Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, the first Canadian orchestra to do so. Since then, the OSM has toured to China, Japan, Europe, South Korea, Latin America and the United States.
The OSM’s discography totals more than a hundred recordings on the Decca, Analekta, CBC Records, ECM, EMI, Philips, Sony and Pentatone labels. Clearing the path to new experiences for music-loving audiences, it has recorded lesser-known masterpieces: a chamber version of Leonard Bernstein’s opera “A Quiet Place” with liner notes containing the very first French translation of the libretto, “L’Aiglon” by Honegger and Ibert, “Mann Varjot” by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, and an album of works by the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin. The Orchestra has also made its mark with recordings of more familiar canons of the classical repertoire. The OSM’s recordings are praised by the most prestigious classical music institutions around the world and have earned over 110 national and international awards.
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Rafael Payare © Gerard Collett
Music Director Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM)
Rafael Payare’s prodigious musicianship, technical brilliance and charismatic presence on the podium have made him one of the world’s most sought-after conductors.
A graduate of the celebrated El Sistema music education program in Venezuela, Mr. Payare began his formal conducting studies in 2004 with José Antonio Abreu. Since winning the prestigious Malko International Competition for Young Conductors in Denmark in 2012, Maestro Payare’s career has advanced rapidly.
Since 2015, he has served as Principal Conductor of the Castleton Festival, founded by his mentor the late Lorin Maazel. He was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014 to 2019 and in 2019, took up the position of Music Director of the San Diego Symphony.
In recent years, Rafael Payare has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including those of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Zurich, Berlin, Vienna, London, Munich, Chicago and Paris. He has also made important opera debuts at the Glyndebourne Festival, Stockholm’s Royal Swedish Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, and most recently at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
In the 2022-2023 season, Payare became the ninth Music Director in the history of the OSM.
SEASON 2024/25 - THIS BIOGRAPHY IS AVAILABLE BY COURTESY OF ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL.
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Daniil Trifonov © Dario Acosta / DG
Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov) is a solo artist, champion of the concerto repertoire, chamber and vocal collaborator, and composer. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of wonder to audiences and critics alike. He won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with 'Transcendental', the Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist.
In 2024-25, Trifonov undertakes season-long artistic residencies with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic. A highlight of his Chicago residency is Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with incoming music director Klaus Mäkelä, and his Czech tenure features Dvořák Concerto with Semyon Bychkov at season-opening concerts in Prague, Toronto, and at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Trifonov also opens the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra’s season with Mozart’s 25th Piano Concerto under Andris Nelsons; performs Prokofiev’s Second with the San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen; reprises Dvořák concerto for a European tour with Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony; plays Ravel’s G-major Concerto with Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Alan Gilbert; and joins Rafael Payare and the Montreal Symphony for concertos by Schumann and Beethoven on a major eight-city European tour. In recital, Trifonov appears twice more at Carnegie Hall as part of two U.S. tours, with a solo program and with violinist Leonidas Kavakos. Due for release in fall 2024, 'My American Story', the pianist’s new Deutsche Grammophon double album, pairs solo pieces with concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates.
Trifonov’s existing Deutsche Grammophon discography includes the Grammy-nominated live recording of his Carnegie recital debut; 'Chopin Evocations'; Silver Age, for which he received Opus Klassik’s Instrumentalist of the Year/Piano award; the best-selling, Grammy-nominated double album Bach: 'The Art of Life'; and three volumes of Rachmaninov works with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of which two received Grammy nominations and the third won BBC Music’s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year. Named 'Gramophone’s' 2016 Artist of the Year and 'Musical America’s' 2019 Artist of the Year, Trifonov was made a 'Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' by the French government in 2021.
During the 2010-11 season, Trifonov won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. He studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
SEASON 2024/25 - THIS BIOGRAPHY IS AVAILABLE BY COURTESY OF askonas holt.
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