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Le Vent du Nord Symphonic

A fusion of two infinite universes: music from the oral tradition and great orchestral music!

Concert dates

Sunday, December 21, 2025
Carré 150, Victoriaville, with the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, December 18, 2025
Desjardins Cultural Centre, Drummondville with the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra

A unique concert and an exceptional experience that everyone will enjoy.

If the first invitation launched to the group came from the Portland Symphony in 2007 with the presentation of a short program, the Orchester Symphonique de Québec in 2010 allowed for the very first time to be presented a complete concert program associating traditional music Quebecer to the vast resources of the symphony orchestra.

This project has been constantly evolving since then, and today it offers the presentation of never-before-seen events where works from the group’s discography are performed, having been arranged by the American Tom Myron; arrangements designed to make the orchestra as a whole the “sixth member” of the group.u groupe.

Quotes

"We are getting ready for a musical match up. The Victoria Symphony is teaming up with a group of Quebec folk singers for a concert that’s promising to feel like a kitchen party. So you can expect unconventional sound makers including feet tapping"

— Adam Sawatsky, CTV NEWS arts & lifestyle

“The guys were a blast to work with. The orchestra audience - despite being almost exclusively anglophone - raved about the program, and rightly”

— Grant Harville, Music Director and Conductor / Great Falls Symphony Association

“We feed off each other so it just makes for a great fusion.”

— Joey Pretaroira, conductor Pacific Opera Victoria / Victoria Symphony

"Concerts have been brilliant! Audiences loving it and jumping to their feet (Symphony audiences rarely do that :-)"

— Heather Jeliazkov, — Heather Jeliazkov, Publicist

Le Vent du Nord Symphonic

With the Quebec Symphony Orchestra

With the Québec City Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Airat Ichmouratov. Symphonic arrangements by Tom Myron. Produced by the CBC and distributed by DEP

Information (PDF)

Revue de presse (PDF)

Comments

“It was beyond amazing: it was like listening to music for the first time, in all its many layers of complexity and in vivid colour. It was mind-blowing.”

“When seeing Le Vent du Nord at Celtic Connections, you know you are in for a special treat and so it proved, as they teamed up with L'Orchestre Ecossais for an absolutely stunning and exceptional performance! .... To say it was a night to remember doesn't seem to be enough but it was and I will cherish those memories forever!”

Archives

Orchestre National de Bretagne
Interceltique de Lorient (FR)
Conductor: Fiona Montbel
Aug, 6, 2025
Unofficial video >>

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

A North Wind Blows through the OSM
La Maison Symphonique, Montréal (Québec)
Maestro: Kent Nagano
December, 12, 2024

Conductor: Jean-François Rivest
(2016, Maison Symphonique de Montréal, participation in the show Noël métissé serré with the storyteller Boucard Diouf)

Le Vent du Nord et l’Orchestre Écossais

SUNFEST & London Symphonia :
Le Vent du Nord & London Symphonia
Metropolitan United Church
April 19, 2024

Idaho State-Civic Symphony

Conductor: Grant Harville
(Pocatello, USA, March 10 & 11, 2017)

Orchestre régional de Normandie

Conductor: Jean Deroyer
(2015, Festival de Tatihou / 2015 & 2016 Season France
• Video

Orchestre Symphonique de Gatineau

Conductor: Yves Léveillé
(2014 & 2019)

Victoria Symphony

Conductor: Joey Pretaroira
(Victoria Royal Theatre, B.-C. Canada, March 7,8 &9, 2014)
• Press release (PDF)

Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean

Conductor: Airat Ichmouratov
(2013, Mont Jacob, Québec)
• Video

Orchestre Symphonique de Québec

Conductor: Airat Ichmouratov
(2010, Dec. 9 & 10, Grand Théâtre de Québec)
• Live recording album produced by CBC
• Video

Portland Symphony

Conductor: Daniel Meyer
(Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME, New England, USA, 2007)