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.
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, Publicist
Comments
Le Vent du Nord Symphonic
Avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec
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)
Press release (PDF)
Archives
Le Vent du Nord et l’Orchestre Écossais
Conductor: Greg Lawson
(2020, Feb 1st, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Celtic Connections)
Unofficial videos availables on social media including.
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Conductor: Jean-François Rivest
(2016, Maison Symphonique de Montréal, participation in the show Noël métissé serré with the storyteller Boucard Diouf)
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)
