live@CIRMMT + McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble

live@CIRMMT + McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble

live@CIRMMT presents works by Martin Matalon and Jonas Regnier performed by the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble

This concert will be broadcast on Schulich's YouTube Channel

Program / Programme

Martin MATALON - Tunneling (2009) For mixed ensemble and electronics  

Jonas REGNIER -  It Is Nothing but Water Slipping Through My Fingers (2020, premiere / création) For mixed ensemble / Pour ensemble mixte

McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble 
  • Lorraine Vaillancourt, Guest Conductor

Biographies 

matalon-nicolasbotti.jpgMartin Matalon is an Argentinian composer and conductor that studied in the Boston Conservatory of Music and in Juliard School of Music. He has won the «Grand Prix des Lycéens» award and some of his remarkable projects are Music Mobile — founded by Matalon— and his collaboration with IRCAM and also different orchestras like Orchestre National de France. Matalon has a long teaching experience: among other universities he was a visiting professor at McGill University and regent professor at Berkeley University. 

JonasRegnierCropped.pngBorn in France in 1995, Jonas Regnier graduated and obtained his Musicology Bachelor degree at the Sorbonne University (Paris), and started a Master of Music in Composition at McGill University (Montreal) in 2018, under the supervision of Philippe Leroux and Jean Lesage. Jonas Regnier is exploring both Instrumental and Electroacoustic composition with equal interest. He has already composed numerous Electroacoustic (fixed media) and Live Electronics pieces that have been performed in Contemporary Festivals in France, Belgium, Canada, Thailand and the US. 

LorraineVaillancourt-photobybernardprefontaine.jpgConductor and pianist Lorraine Vaillancourt is the founder and music director of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), which has been ensemble-in-residence at the Faculté de Musique de l’Université de Montréal since 1989. She is a full professor at the Université de Montréal, where she directed the Atelier de musique contemporaine from 1974 until her retirement from teaching in 2016. She is regularly featured as a guest artist by ensembles and orchestras in Canada and around the world. At home, she has conducted the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the Orchestre Métropolitain, among others. Abroad, she has directed such groups as the Orchestre de Cannes, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Turin), the Nice Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (Lyon), Ensemble Sillages (Nice), Plural Ensemble (Madrid), Les Percussions de Strasbourg and, recently, the Nouvel Ensemble Con- temporain (NEC) in Switzerland.