This is a collection of musics! Compositions, some of them collaborative, and piano performances...all of them shaped by some beautiful peoples.

Présentement à sa deuxième année d'édition, le Festival de Musique de Chambre de Bathurst est un événement annuel qui rassemble des artistes talentueux en provenance des provinces maritimes pour présenter des concerts et offrir des ateliers, des présentations et autres projets culturels ici à Bathurst.

Fondé en 2013, ce festival est un projet organisé par David Scott et Ariane Saulnier, deux jeunes musiciens de la région. C'est avec quatre musiciens d'ailleurs (de Moncton, Fredericton et Lunenberg [N-É]) et avec trois musiciens de la région Chaleur, ainsi qu'une semaine de répétitions intensives que le festival a offert ses deux premiers concerts au public lors de sa première édition.

En revanche, cette année, grâce au succès de l'année dernière et au support de la communauté, le festival peut s'agrandir pour offrir plus de concerts, plus de projets avec plus de musiciens.

L'édition 2014 du Festival de Musique de Chambre de Bathurst présentera quatre ou cinq récitals et concerts présentés en anglais et en français. Aussi, nos artistes seront dans les écoles anglophones et francophones pour donner des présentations et des ateliers pour les élèves des cours de musique. Nous allons aussi permettre aux gens de découvrir la musique classique à travers des performances situées à différents endroits dans la communauté tels que des restaurants, des cafés ou autres lieux publics.

Pour célébrer et représenter notre communauté, quelques œuvres de notre répertoire seront composées par de jeunes compositeurs pour le festival. Le thème de ces nouvelles œuvres portera sur notre patrimoine.

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Currently in it’s second year of operation as an annual event, the Bathurst Chamber Music Festival brings renowned performing artists from around the maritimes to New Brunswick’s north-east to present various musical outreach projects, including concerts, lectures, masterclasses, and workshops.

The festival is a project by local musicians David Scott, and Ariane Saulnier, who co-founded it in 2013. Originally, it had brought in four guest artists from Moncton, Fredericton, and Lunenburg (NS), in addition to three local artists from Bathurst, Beresford, and Petit Rocher for a week of intensive rehearsals and two public recitals. 

The success of this festival in its first year has caught the attention of musicians from around the country, creating the potential for expansion: More musicians, more concerts, more outreach.

In 2014, the Bathurst Chamber Music Festival will present four or five public recitals and concerts in venues in both anglophone and francophone communities. Additionally, our artists will present workshops and lectures for young musicians in the English and French school districts. We will also reach out to those who may not normally show an interest in art-music by busking in various places throughout the community. 

In celebration of our community, we will be commission young composers to write new music about local heritage to be performed publicly and recorded by the musicians of the festival.

Fredrik Gran is a composer from the Vällingby suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. He is interested in the musical potential of machinic and mechanical processes and in experimenting with new performative strategies. His work covers orchestral, chamber, vocal, electroacoustic and live electronic music, as well as music for installations, dance, digital and visual art. Fredrik's music has been recognized internationally, performed at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn Festival (Warsaw), ISCM (Vancouver, CA), SICMF (Seoul, KR), the Nordic Music Days (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bodø), Tage Neue Musik (Weimar, DE), ICMC (Belfast, NI), Festival MANCA (Nice, FR), NoiseGate (NYC, US) and has been primed in many competitions such as London Music Society International Composer’s Competition (UK), Codes d’Acces Access Arkea (CA), Eleanor Stubley Recording Award (CA) and CIRMMT Research grant (CA). He studied composition at the Music Academy in Stockholm and at McGill University in Montreal, where his doctoral research is connected to the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).

Profesor de Trompa en el Conservatorio "García Matos" de Plasencia (Cáceres)

Composer, pianist and improviser from Mexico City.

Former Military horn player stopped playing for nearly 20 years but started playing again for fun in 2013. All of the parts on the tracks I'm sharing are played by me and recorded by me. I'm using Yamaha's Silent Brass system - basically a practice mute with microphone built in, patched into a computer running Audacity software to record the parts against a click track. The main disadvantage to this system is that I don't have my hand in the bell, so I can't color the sound or make fine pitch adjustments like I usually would. For those who care - playing on a Holton 177 which my folks bought new for me way back in 1979. Hope you enjoy!

Horn player at the Schwob School of Music and I compose stuff!

Musique créative pour rapprocher les explorateurs artistiques de Montréal et d'ailleurs / Creative music connecting musical explorers from Montreal and abroad

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