Concert
The ensemble Sixtrum percussion, with 3 nominations for the 2025 Opus Awards, offers you a concert where contemporary percussion reinvents itself. Since 2007, this innovative ensemble has been pushing the boundaries of the genre with a unique approach that blends percussion, technology, and new artistic forms. This captivating program includes works by Thierry de Mey, Steve Reich, and Mark Applebaum, providing an immersive experience that stimulates both hearing and sight. You will explore listening beyond hearing, connected to the theme of the 2025 Festival and Beethoven’s deafness. Each composition highlights the incredible expressive potential of percussion, where light becomes rhythm and gestures become music. Join Sixtrum for a vibrant and unique exploration of the auditory and visual world of modern percussion.
The acclaimed musicians taking the stage are precious partners of the Orford Music Academy.
Artists
Sixtrum
Since 2007, Sixtrum has ceaselessly explored the universe of contemporary percussion. Through dozens of collaborations with Canadian and international composers and ensembles, hundreds of concerts for audiences of all ages on local, national and international stages, thousands of hours of rehearsal playing millions of notes, the ensemble has established a signature in Montreal and abroad. This signature reflects the ensemble’s area of expertise– contemporary percussion – and their creative approach to performing music in concert. Together, the multi-talented percussionists of Sixtrum , João Catalão, Julien Grégoire, Philip Hornsey, Kristie Ibrahim, Fabrice Marandola and Olivier Tremblay-Noël, endeavour to renew their artistic universe through constant interaction with other musical genres and other forms of expression on stage.
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