McGill Symphony Orchestra
Schulich Singers
McGill University Chorus
Maison symphonique
November 24, 2024
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2024 3:00 p.m.
McGill Symphony Orchestra
Schulich
Singers
McGill University Chorus
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor Alexis Hauser, conductor
Javiera Zepeda, mezzo-soprano; Ziggy Harris, baritone
Ubi Caritas Maurice Duru!é (1902-1986)
Requiem, Op. 9
I. Introit
II. Kyrie
III. Domine Jesu Christe
IV. Sanctus
V. Pie Jesu
VI. Agnus Dei
VII. Lux æterna
VIII. Libera me
IX. In Paradisum
Javiera Zepeda, mezzo-soprano
Ziggy Harris, baritone
entracte
Theme and Variations, Op. 43b
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
M. Duru!é
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique was generously o ered to the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) by Mrs. Jacqueline Desmarais.
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Feiran Bi
Eli Guo
Prasanna Mohile
Jayden Lee
Cailin WalshEstabrooks
Elaine Yang
oboe
Sophie Cohen
Grayson Eichmeier
So a Musallam
clarinet
Sarah Darragh
Ilana Inselbuch
Peter Perez Rojas
Mutian Shen
bassoon
Isabel Ament
Leah Espinoza
Eric Li
horn
Samuel Dmyterko
Ariana Douglas
Lauren Kennedy
Setareh Rezazadeh
Jonah Stemen
trumpet
Henry Baker
Ethan Cogswell
Anthony Romagnuolo
trombone
Lorenzo Allen-Felluga
Quinn McGillis
Erynne McPhee
John Peelen
tuba
Samuel Hannan
Charlie Humell
Hannah Stefureak
percussion
Polly Aretakis
Will Barbieri
Emilio Biggs
Franklin Feng
Henry Wu
harp
Talya Kaplan
organ
Rachel Schulz
Qing Xu
violin
Patrick Paradine, concert master
Satoka Abo
Benne Van Barr
Juliana Cao
Grainne Daly
Daniela Garcia-
Sanchez
Alessandro Iampietro
Hon Yin Adrian Kwan
Allison Lee
Ariane Legault
Jason Lo
Joey Machin
Evan MacLean
Isabella MacLellan
Fiona Marche o
Beth McAlister
Tsubasa Muramatsu
Yuen Ying Ng
Sierra Olsthoorn
Margaryta Osypchuk
Inna Osypchuk
Layla Park
Iryna Peleshchyshyn
Bryony Quan
Rose Rutkowski
Audrey Tanaka
Zhi Hao (Joseph) Tsao
Brooklyn Wood
Anaïs Wu
Sizhan Zheng
viola
Alexander Beggs
Elodie Chapoutot
Nelleke Dagher
Julien Delagrave
Nathan Emans
Joaquin Garcia
Mathieu Girardet
Julian Glover
Mai Ikemura
Eunjin Lee
Sophia Tseng
Evren Yalcin
cello
Jonathan Craig Penner
Aidan Fleet
Amos Friesen
Inigo Gauthier-Mamaril
Grant Kane
Francois Lamontagne
Ellamay Mantie
Evelyne Méthot
Holly McCallum
Grace Perry-Howarth
Rami Simon
Ruoxi Zhao
double bass
Graeme Delahey
Evan Grandage
Nina Howell
Marina Roessler
Alexis Hauser, conductor & artistic director
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor & artistic director
soprano
Claire Brillon
Kaya D’Aigle Edwards
Ana Gonzalez
Giuliana Mercuri
Helayna Moll
Carmen Nicholson
Maddalena Ohrbach
Clara Van de Velde
Patricia Wrigglesworth
Valeria Yegupov
alto
Kayla Friedland-Yust
Aleksia Jensen
Noa Marvit
Niva Menon
Annabelle Morrison
Elia Salm
Johanna Schreibweis
Molly Trueman
Emma Yee
MCGILL UNIVERSITY CHORUS
soprano
Eleny Bachkangi
Samantha Chernis
Alyza Crook
Iulia Farcutiu
Roxie Hanish
Christina Huan
Claire Latella
Victoria Tanner
Xinru Zhang
Léoni Trépanier
Elisabeth Audet
Justine Cantlon
Estefania Carrillo
Sunny Chuon
Finuala Cree
Margaret Eisenberg
Penny Gu
Emily Hobday
Mackenzie Kirk
Chiara Kivilaht
Sascha Laubstein
Jiayin Li
Olivia Pantoga
Rinrada Phoungphol
Laura Victoria Arean
Emily Wang
Sarah Wang
alto
Maria Bradley
Beatrice Calebrese
Gia De Rosa
Ma ea Edlington
Marguerite Haddad
Katherine Lake
Nour Panaitescot
Maia Prasad
Angelina Schiavone
Eunbin Seong
Sherry Song
Lalia Suescun
Shangda Tao
Audrey Wang
Linda Wang
Xixi Wang
Sherry Xie
Franie Yan
Zhi-Yi Zhou
Orly Alexis
Rose-Aimée Cloutier
Elise Holbrook
Yixi Hou
Chelsie Howell
Karine Lafrance
Elisa Li
Elena Malz
Scotia Millar
Ashelen Rotman Mauas
Jennifer Sun
Yi Yang
Jenny Zhang
Johanna Schreibweis
tenor
Ma hew Boutda
Kyle Briscoe
Félix Gagné
Haodong Ma
Ana Neocleous
Lorenzo Somma
Owen Spicer
Owen Tragash
Miles Wetzel
SCHULICH SINGERS
bass
Je rey Chan
Elliot Henderson
Ma ias Lundberg
Eligh Nichols
Michael O’Neil
Kody Pisney
Gabriel Shapiro
Áron Sipos
Yoan Théophile
tenor
Seanne Buenafe
William Duval
Pierce Kim
Dylan Seiler
Bradley Snel
Thomas Vigneras
Yuancheng Zhao
Arian Aghajan
Sashi Apostolov
Daniel Guo
Xingke Li
Alex Lyubenov
Sam Poirier
Alex Strong-Saad
Tristan Tremblay
Xiao Zhang
Haodong Ma
bass
Mikhail Adamov
Sayhan Ahmed
Samuël Fecteau
Noah Gregory
Rick Li
Gabriel Moss
Devon Packer
Lucas Raimbault
Emmanuel Roberts Dugal
Karl-André Rozankovic
Shahrzad Sabzehali
Hervé Troli
Ezra Zabawny-Gilman
Mohamed Alnajjar
Daniel Benede i
Sime Boich
John-Paul Chouery
Elio Corriveau
Louis Lacroix
Timothy Li
Ben Manson
Edmund McAteer
Anh Ngo
Liam Pouliot
Patrick Stokes
Daniel Sun
Raymond Tian
Kody Pisney, Ma hew Boutda, Je rey Chan, conductors
Alexis Hauser, conductor
Born in Vienna, Austria, Alexis Hauser was the winner of the prestigious Koussevitzky Conducting Prize of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and recipient of the Leonard Bernstein-stipendium in 1974. His teachers included Hans Swarowsky, Franco Ferrara, and Herbert von Karajan.
Maestro Hauser has enjoyed guest engagements with leading orchestras and international festivals around the world. As a guest conductor, he has led the symphony orchestras of P sburgh, San Fransisco, Atlanta, Minnesota, Montreal, Rochester, Toronto, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Ro erdam, Czech Philharmonic, Hilversum, Moscow, and Budapest. Other engagements include conducting the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin, the South West German Radio, the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the philharmonics of Belgrade, Zagreb, Bucharest, and Ljubijana, and the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. He has taken part in orchestral tours of Italy, Scandinavia, and Iceland. His opera conducting debut took place at the New York City Opera (1975) with Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus and in Europe at the Zurich Opera House (2005) with the premiere of the opera Kalkül by Werner Schulze (music) and Carl Djerassi (libre o).
Since 2001, Maestro Hauser has served as the Artistic Director of the McGill Symphony Orchestra, with which he toured to Toronto’s Koerner Hall and Kingston’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. He is also Artistic Director of the Montreal-based chamber orchestra Pronto Musica, which he co-founded in 2013. During a recent sabbatical, he arranged an orchestral suite of Harry Somers’ opera Louis Riel which will see its world premiere in Montreal during the 2023-2024 season.
Maestro Hauser’s special interest in working with young musicians and conductors has led to guest professorships and masterclasses at The Juilliard School and Manha an School of Music in New York, the Civic Orchestra Chicago, the Kunstuniversität in Graz, Austria, the Kunitachi Music University in Tokyo, Japan, and the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto. Since the summer of 2013, he has worked with Les Orpheistes Festival Orchestra in Vienna. In June 2019 he gave a masterclass for young conductors in Hamburg, Germany, in conjunction with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Before arriving at Schulich, Maestro Hauser’s former positions include Music Director of Orchestra London Canada and KCM Orchestra Tokyo, Principal Guest Conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, Principal Conductor of the Festival Mozart Romana, and Principal Conductor of the (contemporary music) Festival Nieder sterreich International. Since 1999, he has had a close association with the Ensemble Wiener Collage (including members of the Vienna Philharmonic), which he has conducted frequently. Soloists he has worked with include violinists Itzhak Perlman, Ida Haendel, and Young Uck Kim, pianists Stefan Askenase, Rudolf Buchbinder, Jean-Philippe Collard, Philippe Entremont, and Anton Kuerti, cellists Leonard Rose, David Geringas, and Ma Haimovitz, and singers Maureen Forrester, Jane Archibald, Joseph Rouleau, and Michael Schade.
Maestro Hauser’s work can be seen and heard on numerous recordings, as well as on television and radio broadcasts throughout Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Jean-Sébastien Vallée, conductor
Jean-Sébastien Vallée is a renowned Canadian-American conductor, scholar, and pedagogue known for his expertise in vocal, choral, and orchestral repertoires. With a career spanning over several decades, Vallée has conducted numerous ensembles across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has prepared choruses for some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Chicago and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the National Arts Center Orchestra in O awa.
Dr. Vallée is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the renowned 160-voice Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the 24-voice professional Toronto Mendelssohn Singers. In addition, Jean-Sébastien is Full Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies, and Coordinator of the Conducting & Ensembles Area at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. He has previously served as the Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and was on the choral faculty of the University of Redlands. Dr. Vallée holds degrees from Laval University, Sherbrooke University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a doctorate in conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Vallée’s recordings have been broadcast internationally and include Lux (ATMA, 2017), Requiem (ATMA, 2018 –requiems by Fauré and Duru!é), Distance (ATMA, 2021), and Remember (ATMA 2024). His recent and upcoming engagements include concerts at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, a tour with the National Choir of Canada, and concerts with l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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Ziggy Harris, baritone
Master’s in Music
Class of Bre Polegato ziggyharris.com
Javiera Zepeda, mezzo-soprano
Master’s in Music
Class of Annamaria Popescu
Ubi Caritas
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exultemus et in ipso iucundemur. Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Amen.
Requiem
I - Introit
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam. Ad te omnis caro veniet.
II - Kyrie
Kyrie, eleison ! Christe eleison !
III - Domine Jesu Christe
Domine Jesu Christe, rex gloriæ, libera animas omnium delium defunctorum de pœnis inferni et de profundo lacu. Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas Tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis o erimus.
Tu suscipe pro animabus illis quarum hodie memoriam facimus. Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam quam olim Abrahæ promisisti et semini ejus.
IV - Sanctus
Sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus sabaoth. Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.
V - Pie Jesu
Pie Jesu Domine, Dona eis requiem, Sempiternam requiem.
VI - Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam.
Ubi Caritas
Where charity and love are, God is there. Christ’s love has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him. Let us fear, and let us love the living God. And may we love each other with a sincere heart.
Amen.
Requiem
I - Introit
Give them eternal rest, Lord: and may light perpetual shine upon them. A hymn becomes you, God, in Zion, and a vow shall be paid to you in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer: to you all !esh shall come.
II - Kyrie
Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy!
III - Domine Jesu Christe
Lord Jesus Christ, king of glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the punishments of hell and from the deep lake. Deliver them from the mouth of the lion, lest Tartarus swallow them up, lest they fall into darkness: but let the standard-bearer Saint Michael bring them back into the holy light which you once promised to Abraham and his seed. We o er prayers and sacri ces of praise to you, Lord: you receive them on behalf of those souls whose memory we recall today; cause them, Lord, to pass from death to the life which you once promised to Abraham and his seed.
IV - Sanctus
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts: heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
V - Pie Jesu
Blessed Jesus, Lord, give them rest. Blessed Jesus, Lord, give them eternal rest.
VI - Agnus Dei
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, give them rest.
VII – Lux æterna
Lux æterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in æternum, quia pius es.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis, cum sanctis tuis in æternum quia pius es.
VIII – Libera me
Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda:
quando caeli movendi sunt et terra; dum veneris iudicare sæculum per ignem. Tremens factus sum ego, et timeo, dum discussio venerit, atque ventura ira, quando cæli movendi sunt et terra; Dies illa, dies iræ, calamitatis et miseriæ, dies magna et amara valde, dum veneris iudicare sæculum per ignem.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua lucæt eis.
IX – In Paradisum
In Paradisum deducant angeli, in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem.
VII – Lux æterna
May eternal light shine on them, Lord, with your saints for ever, for you are good. Give them eternal rest, Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them, with your saints for ever, for you are good.
VIII – Libera me
Deliver me, Lord, from eternal death, on that terrible day: when the heavens and earth will be shaken; when you will come to judge the age with re. I am made to tremble, and I am afraid, since trial and anger are coming, when the heavens and earth will be shaken; That day, a day of anger, disaster and sorrow, a mighty day, and one exceedingly bi er, when you will come to judge the age with re. Give them eternal rest, Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon them.
IX – In Paradisum
May the angels receive them in Paradise, at they coming may the martyrs receive thee and bring thee into the holy city Jerusalem. There may the chorus of angels receive thee, and with Lazarus, once a beggar, may thou have eternal rest.
THE ORGAN AT THE MAISON SYMPHONIQUE
The organ at the Maison symphonique de Montréal, inaugurated on May 28, 2014, was designed and built on behalf of the OSM by the organ builder Casavant with the collaboration of architects Diamond Schmi + Ædi ca for its visual design, and is the Orchestra’s property. This is a large organ intended for orchestral use, and is recorded in the books of the Saint-Hyacinthe builder as Opus 3,900. It consists of 109 registers, 83 stops, 116 ranks and 6,489 pipes.
The instrument bears the name Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, in tribute to the OSM founder and rst general manager (from 1939 to 1970). An astute administrator and a commi ed music lover, Pierre Béique took over from Dame Antonia Nantel, wife of Mr. Athanase David, who had acted, since 1934, as secretary of the Board of Directors of the Société des Concerts symphoniques de Montréal, the forerunner of the OSM.
Purchase of this organ was made possible, courtesy of Mrs. Jacqueline Desmarais, who assumed the total cost and, in so doing, wished to keep alive the memory of the lasting contribution made by Mr. Pierre Béique to the OSM’s mission of excellence.
Tonight’s performance is presented under the Honorary Patronage of His Excellency, the Austrian Ambassador to Canada, Andreas Rendl.
Music has existed as a eld of study at McGill University for over 140 years. Since the founding of the Faculty of Music in 1920 to the present day, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University (SSoM) has consistently been a leader in music pedagogy, research, innovation, performance, and technology throughout Canada and around the world.
The SSoM is home to more than 850 students (32% from Quebec, 34% from the rest of Canada, and 34% international), who are drawn here by over 200 faculty members, numerous ensembles, and a rich legacy that inspires excellence.
Today, the SSoM o ers 50 di erent programs in research and performance and puts on over 700 concerts and events annually. We are known for programs in orchestra, opera, jazz, early music, and contemporary music. Our leadership in sound recording and music technology provides unique possibilities for collaboration with the larger musical community.
The mission of the school is to o er the highest calibre of teaching and learning, grounded in exceptional performance and research, in an inclusive and inspiring environment. This mission is directed at enabling students to achieve their full potential as innovators, cultural leaders, and global citizens, well-prepared to face the 21st century, to maintain strong connections to local and global communities, and to advance well-being through the creative use of music. The success of this mission is measured by consistently being named the top performing arts school in Canada by QS University Rankings and re!ected in the success of our alumni around the globe.
The Schulich School of Music of McGill University embodies the highest international standards of excellence all while rede ning and transforming the way we understand, listen, and perform music.
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SCHULICH SCHOOL OF MUSIC
ENSEMBLE TEAMS
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Sectional Coaches
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Ensemble Manager and Librarian
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Ensemble Manager and Librarian
Teaching Assistant, Choral Studies
Shawn Mativetsky, Joshua Morris, Joshua Peters, Lindsay Roberts, David Stewart, Richard Stoelzel, Marina Thibeault, Ali Yazdanfar
Ella Tomko
Layla Park, Setareh Rezazadeh
Johanna Schreibweis
Laura Victoria Arean, Haodong Ma
Haodong Ma, Johanna Schreibweis
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Performance Librarian, Gertrude Whitley Performance Library
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Communications and Production Department Logistics, Publicity, and Marketing
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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2024 2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert Schulich Singers
Johanna Schreibweis, Ma hew Boutda, Haodong Ma, Je rey Chan, Kody Pisney, Ma ias Lundberg, conductors
Jono Devey, piano
Ah! Toi, belle hirondelle
Prière
Lux aeterna
Madrigal
C’est la petit’ ll’ du prince
Amour m’a mis
soprano
Claire Brillon
Kaya D’Aigle Edwards
Ana Gonzalez
Giuliana Mercuri
Helayna Moll
Carmen Nicholson
Maddalena Ohrbach
Clara Van de Velde
Patricia Wrigglesworth
Valeria Yegupov
Johanna Schreibweis, conductor
Ma hew Boutda, conductor
Haodong Ma, conductor
Je rey Chan, conductor
Kody Pisney, conductor
Ma ias Lundberg, conductor
alto
Kayla Friedland-Yust
Aleksia Jensen
Noa Marvit
Niva Menon
Annabelle Morrison
Elia Salm
Johanna Schreibweis
Molly Trueman
Emma Yee
tenor
Ma hew Boutda
Kyle Briscoe
Félix Gagné
Haodong Ma
Ana Neocleous
Lorenzo Somma
Owen Spicer
Owen Tragash
Miles Wetzel
arr. Tracy Wong (living composer)
Christopher Ducasse (living composer)
Justin Lapierre (living composer)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Vulfran Samin (15..-15..)
bass
Je rey Chan
Elliot Henderson
Ma ias Lundberg
Eligh Nichols
Michael O’Neil
Kody Pisney
Gabriel Shapiro
Áron Sipos
Yoan Théophile