Ensemble Paramirabo: It Was Inside You All Along

Event Description

📍Rolston Recital Hall

Join us for an evening of bold contemporary music as Ensemble Paramirabo performs a program of mostly minimalist works by today’s leading composers. United by a dedication to new music, the ensemble’s six members perform with a single voice that explores repetition, openness, and transformation.

Through works by Nicole Lizée, Nico Muhly, Dorothy Chang, Philippe Macnab-Séguin, Kai Kubota-Enright, and Missy Mazzoli, the concert invites listeners into sound worlds of texture and space, weaving pulse and stillness, analog and digital.

Taking its name from a work by Montreal composer Claude Vivier, Paramirabo has commissioned over 80 premieres, toured internationally, and been recognized with the Opus “Performer of the Year” prize and a JUNO nomination.

Members
Jeffrey Stonehouse (flute & artistic director), Viviane Gosselin (cello), Gwénaëlle Ratouit (clarinets), Hubert Brizard (violin), Pamela Reimer (piano), Krystina Marcoux (percussion).

Program (approx. 61 mins)
Nicole Lizée – Music for Body Without Organs
Nico Muhly – Doublespeak
Dorothy Chang – Of All Things Elusive
Philippe Macnab-Séguin – It Was Inside You All Along
Kai Kubota-Enright – Spatial Communication of Dripstone
Missy Mazzoli – Still Life with Avalanche
Julius Eastman – Joy Boy (featuring Banff Musicians in Residence participants)

Reviews
“Montreal’s Ensemble Paramirabo quickly became known as one of the most innovative and accomplished new music ensembles in Canada.” - James O’Callaghan, Canadian League of Composers

“Ensemble Paramirabo has a firm commitment to quality chamber music, which, in the world of contemporary music, equates to total fearlessness… This ensemble is a rare gem in the city—born solely of creative inspiration, and their evolution as an up-and-coming musical force is not to be missed.” - Andrew Crust, Bachtrack