Concert Reviews

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  Konus Quartett and Tomas Korber

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  While deliberate and considered are not alien adjectives to apply to many performances at FIMAV, few this year earned them as thoroughly as...

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  Moor Mother and Roscoe Mitchell

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  On paper, this pairing seems strange. Elder statesman of jazz Roscoe Mitchell — founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, which celeb...

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  Philippe Lauzier and Éric Normand

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  A strong opening and closing can really make a performance, and that is where Montreal's Philippe Lauzier and Rimouski's Éric Normand reall...

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  Vijay Iyer Sextet

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2019

  Pianist Vijay Iyer is at that point in his career, just past 40 years old, where his status as a promising new voice is near fully mutated...

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  Barre Phillips

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Bassist Barre Phillips would not appreciate the mention of his age, though he referred to it obliquely in one of his between-piece addresse...

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  Elena Kakaliagou / Ingrid Schmoliner

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Early on in the concert, Elena Kakaliagou described a song she and her musical partner Ingrid Schmoliner would play as being about displace...

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  Klimperei and Madame Patate

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  The French duo of Émilie Siaut (aka Madame Patate) and Christophe Petchanatz (Klimperei) are a bit of an anomaly in the predominantly objec...

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  Rainer Weins

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 17

  PUBLISHED May 18, 2019

  Debuting as a composer and conductor after a couple of decades appearing at FIMAV in an array of ensembles and musical duties, Montreal´s o...