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I Musici de Montréal - Arts Education

 


I Musici de Montréal offers a variety of Arts-in-Education services while on tour, including the opportunity for young musicians to join them in performance (Toy Symphony project, pictured below).

  • Master class for cellists with Yuli Turovsky, cello soloist and conductor of the group
     
  • Master class for violinists/violists with Eleanora Turovsky, Concertmaster/leader of the group
     
  • Coaching sessions for string quartets and mixed ensembles of strings and winds or strings and piano
     
  • Coaching and Conducting youth orchestras, with Yuli Turovsky
     
  • Collaborative Workshops/Collaborative Concerts, for college-aged students, with music training, I Musici de Montréal offers an opportunity for a strong student string quartet to play, in a workshop or concert setting a piece for quartet and chamber orchestra. Suggested repertoire includes:

    Pierre Mercure: Divertissement pour Quartuor et Cordes, (a Canadian composer)
    William Lekeu: Adagio for Quartet and Orchestra, op 3 (Belgian composer)
    Eugene Ysaye: Harmonies du soir pour quartour et orchestre da cordes (also Belgian)
    Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Quartet and Strings op 47(British)
     
  • La Musique, Ca bourge! (Music is Motion!)

    This interactive concert created by I Musici de Montréal and choreographer Jean Leger creates a ballet. With Jean Leger as choreographer, ringleader and master of ceremonies, members of the audience (youngsters, parents, whomever) participate in on-the-spot choreography in interaction with the musicians of I Musici de Montréal. The full length program is 90 minutes long, and there are shorter versions available. After the choreography is prepared on the stage, a skit is performed in which all have participated. La Musique, Ca bourge comes with an excellent study guide and a CD of the musical works performed during the presentation.
     
  • The Toy Symphony: In The Toy Symphony Concert, I Musici de Montréal offers a family concert project (or school outreach concert) wherein students from the community where the group is to perform actually join the professionals in rehearsal and performance. The performers and the management work closely with the community beforehand, choosing students aged 7 to 12 (variable) to practice ahead of time with a designated teacher/leader on the toy instruments with scores provided by I Musici de Montréal. The instruments are: (all toys) trumpet, drum, duck cuckoo, ratchet, nightingale, triangle. Day of concert rehearsal is coordinated with instruments provided by the professionals. The concert program includes one piece with the students: Leopold Mozart's Toy Symphony.
     
  • The Toy Symphony pre-concert workshop, with I Musici de Montréal member Francoise Morin (American, bi-lingual) who goes into a school setting and gives a lecture/demonstration about the upcoming Toy Symphony concert to prepare the students for the program. Especially for groups of about 30-40 students. Francoise brings the instruments and demonstrates each one, she has the children try out the toy instruments actually used in the performances, and does listening exercises with them. This is especially targeted to kids who have no exposure to music class, so they can have some idea of what to expect when seeing youth performing with the members of I Musici de Montréal in the Toy Symphony . (Note, this workshop may also be available in Spanish.)
     
  • The Tchaikovsky Children's Album, particularly for youth 7 - 12, a workshop with I Musici de Montréal, lead by conductor Yuli Turovsky, who uses the evocative power of the work to get the students actively involved in the music. Turovsky asks the students questions and leads them through this irresistable score. If possible, a good young flutist in the community will also be asked to join in for the one movement that features the flute.  
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09/05/06 08:45:12 AM