TO Live Presents Dream House Quartet

Dream House Quartet

May 3, 2023

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Meridian Arts Centre

George Weston Recital Hall

Produced by ArKtype

featuring Katia and Marielle Labèque, Bryce Dessner, and David Chalmin

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Welcome to the George Weston Recital Hall in Meridian Arts Centre.

Formed in 2018, Dream House Quartet fuses decades of musical mastery of classical and contemporary forms. Featuring world-renowned piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, composer, and founding member of rock band The National Bryce Dessner, and composer, musician, and producer David Chalmin whose collaborations range from Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry to Bruce Springsteen.

Performing radical new commissions from visionary composers and pivotal contemporary works of the last half-century, Dream House Quartet will perform a program tonight that includes the Canadian premiere of Thom Yorke’s first classical composition “Don’t Fear the Light,” world premieres by Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin, and works by Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and more.

The four artists first collaborated on the 2019 album El Chan. Their new EP on Deutsche Grammophon was released on April 14 to coincide with this tour, and a full album release will follow in the fall of 2023.

Collaboration - when it succeeds - can be exciting and rewarding. Dream House Quartet is a prime example of how the process of working with others can enrich the broader music industry and push the boundaries of innovation for all to enjoy.

Over the course of the coming months and years, TO Live will be programming more incredible concerts, like the one you will see tonight, in the beautiful George Weston Recital Hall. Stay tuned for announcements of appearances by internationally renowned artists and local favourites in a variety of genres. An eclectic mix of classical, jazz, pop, and music from around the world that reflects our great city and community.

Of course, this expanding music series at the George Weston Recital Hall will complement and augment the many great partner organizations already presenting in this space. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, Sinfonia Toronto, Mandle Philharmonic, Tirgan, The Nathaniel Dett Choral, and Soundstreams, plus many throughout the season.

We welcome you to Meridian Arts Centre, the doors are open! Thank you for joining us to celebrate and enjoy the experience of live music and art in North York.

Clyde Wagner President & CEO TO Live

Josephine Ridge Vice President, Programming TO Live

Program

Bryce Dessner Haven (2019)

Meredith Monk Ellis Island (1981) Arr. Lisa Kaplan

Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint (1987)

Arr. For 2 Guitars & Tape by Bryce Dessner

Philip Glass

Intermission

4 Movements for 2 Pianos (2008)

Thom Yorke Don’t Fear the Light, Part 1 & 2 (2019)

David Chalmin Eclipse (2023)

Movement 1, 2 & 3

Bryce Dessner Sonic Wires (2023)

Movement 1 Spiral

Movement 2 Cherchebruit

Movement 3 Clouds

Photo credit: Jonathan McCallum

Dream House Quartet

Piano: Katia Labèque

Piano: Marielle Labèque

Guitar: Bryce Dessner

Voice, guitar, and electronics: David Chalmin

Sound mix: Dan Bora

Associate producer and tour manager: Sami Pyne

North American premiere tour produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Pianos by Steinway & Sons.

Special thanks to Josephine Ridge, Max Rubino and the amazing team at TO Live, Vivian Chiu and Steinway Pianos, Gill Graham, Samantha Holderness, The Kitchen, Rachel Fine, Jennifer Newman and Yale Schwarzman Center, Shanta Thake, Guillaume Loubère, Paschalis Zervas, Melay Araya, Deutsche Grammophon, and the team at Unison Media.

Bryce Dessner compositions performed by special arrangement with Chester Music Ltd.

Philip Glass composition performed by special arrangement with Dungaven/Chester Music Ltd.

Meredith Monk composition is performed by special arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes.

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Katia and Marielle Labèque Piano

Katia and Marielle Labèque are sibling pianists renowned for their ensemble of synchronicity and energy. Their musical ambitions started at an early age and they rose to international fame with their contemporary rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (one of the first gold records in classical music), and have since developed a stunning career with performances worldwide.

They have played with the most prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Filarmonia della Scala, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

For their own label KML recordings, they have released an album called Sisters (2014). Previous releases include a Gershwin-Bernstein album, and their project Minimalist Dream House, which chronicles 50 years of minimalist music. The DVD The Labèque Way, a letter to Katia and Marielle by Alessandro Baricco produced by El Deseo (Pedro and Augustin Almodovar) and filmed by Felix Cabez is released by EuroArts. Their biography, Une vie a quatre mains by Renaud Machart is published by Buchet-Chastel.

Bryce Dessner is one of the most sought-after composers of his generation, with a rapidly expanding Catalogue of works commissioned by leading ensembles. Known to many as a guitarist with The National, he is also active as a curator—a vital force in the flourishing realm of new creative music.

His orchestral, chamber, and vocal compositions have been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (for the New York Philharmonic), Kronos Quartet, BAM Next Wave Festival, Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Sydney Festival, eighth blackbird, Sō Percussion, New York City Ballet, and many others. He has worked with some of the world’s most creative and respected musicians and visual artists, including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Johnny Greenwood, Justin Peck,

Bryce Dessner Guitar

David Chalmin

Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Matthew Ritchie, among others. His work “Murder Ballads,” featured on eighth blackbird’s album Filament—an album he also produced and performs on—won the 2016 Grammy Award for best chamber music/small ensemble performance. Along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, Dessner composed music for Oscar Award-winning director Alejandro Iñárritu’s film The Revenant, which received a 2016 Golden Globes nomination for best original score.

Born in Chambéry, France, in 1980, David Chalmin is a composer, producer, sound engineer, and musician. He grew up in a strongly musical environment and after some years of piano studies, he began playing the electric guitar at the age of 14. His various collaborations extend from classical music to avant-garde. He was composer in residency at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes for the seasons 18/19 and 19/20 and was recently commissioned by the Foundation Singer Polignac.

He is a member of Triple Sun together with Massimo Pupillo and Raphaël Séguinier. Their first album, The City Lies in Ruins, was released by Consouling Sounds in May 2016. Together with Katia Labéque, they have a project called Moondog that premiered in Nuits de Fourvière (Lyon) with dancers Marie-Agnès Gillot, Yaman Okur, and Stephane Deheselle.

David’s ballet Star-Cross’d Lovers was premiered at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. This original composition for pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque, electric guitar, and drums is based on the Shakespearean drama Romeo & Juliet with a choreography for seven dancers by worldrenowned break-dancer Yaman Okur. In 2013, he teamed up with Raphaël Séguinier to create the rock duet UBUNOIR.

David created his own studio in the centre of Paris in 2009 (Studio K) where he does most of his productions. Since 2012, he also manages the Studio KML created by Katia and Marielle Labèque in Rome, Italy. He has written the original music for Madonna’s short film Her Story, and his most recent engineer/producer credits include Shannon Wright, The National, Gaspar Claus, Pedro Soler, Angélique Ionatos, Antoine Sahler, and François Morel.

Voice, guitar and electronics

Bora Sound Mix

Dan Bora is a designer, producer, and engineer for albums, film scores, and live sound. He has worked with Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, The Magnetic Fields, Nico Mühly, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and many others. His credits include Academy Award-winning Fog of War as well as the revival of Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. Dan’s live work has been praised as “deft,” “provocative and even poignant…” (The New York Times).

Sami Pyne is the associate producer at ArKtype, one of the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. She is also an NYC-based independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the production process for creators. Sami’s had the pleasure of working with companies such as 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, Aeon’s Sophia Club, The Martin E. Segal Center, Signature Theatre, Park Avenue Armory, The Play Company (PlayCo), The Tank, The New Ohio, Theatre Development Fund (TDF), and HERE Arts Center. She holds a BFA from Shenandoah Conservatory and is a graduate of the Columbia University theatre management and producing MFA program. Sami is the operations committee leader of the Creative & Independent Producers Alliance and a fellow of WP Theater’s 2022-2024 producers lab.

Thomas O. Kriegsmann specializes in new work development and touring worldwide. His past work includes projects with Kaneza Schaal, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Daniel Fish, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, Anna Deavere Smith, Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, John Cameron Mitchell, and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include 600 Highwaymen’s A Thousand Ways, nora chipaumire’s Nehanda, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds with JD Samson, Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) directed by Kaneza Schaal, John Cameron Mitchell’s “The Origin of Love”, Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers’ Cartography, Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Big Dance Theater / Mikhail

Dan

Sami Pyne Associate producer and tour manager

Thomas O. Kriegsmann ArKtype

Baryshnikov’s Man In a Case, and Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s Not By Bread Alone. Ongoing collaborations include, 600 Highwaymen, Sam Green, Timothy White Eagle, Andrew Schneider, Big Dance Theater, Toshi Reagon, and Compagnia T.P.O. Upcoming premieres include Justin Peck & Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois, 600 Highwaymen’s The Following Evening, Timothy White Eagle’s Indian School, and Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present. He is a founding member of CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance).

Backstage with... Bryce Dessner

Bryce Dessner is one of the most sought-after composers of his generation, with a rapidly expanding catalogue of works commissioned by leading ensembles. Known to many as a guitarist with the rock band The National, he is also active as a curator—a vital force in the flourishing realm of new creative music.

The Ohio-born, Paris-based musician’s work “Murder Ballads” was featured on Eighth Blackbird’s album Filament—an album he also produced and performs on— and won a Grammy. Along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, he composed music for The Revenant, which received a 2016 Golden Globes nomination for best original score.

Since 2018, Bryce has been making music with legendary duelling pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and guitarist-composer David Chalmin in a supergroup called Dream House Quartet. Ahead of the band’s Toronto performance this May, we chatted with Bryce about the power of nature, growing up with twin brother Aaron, and the joy of watching his son discover new things.

Where do you find inspiration?

I often find inspiration outside of music. This can be reading a book or going to see a visual art exhibition, or often hiking in the mountains. I am very inspired by the beauty and power of nature, and I am lucky to live somewhere I can experience the mountains and ocean. I find it endlessly interesting and inspiring to be in nature.

What led you to become an artist?

My older sister Jessica is an amazing artist and growing up she was always a huge inspiration to my brother Aaron and I. Jessica is a dancer/choreographer and later developed an interest in poetry and visual art. As kids my brother and I played a lot of sports, and I was playing classical flute. In my teenage years I got inspired by rock music and started playing electric guitar. This led me back to conservatory and I ended up doing advanced degrees in composition and classical guitar. I feel very lucky to pursue my art as a career.

What’s the importance of the performing arts in your life?

I think the power of collaborating with other musicians is what draws me to the performing arts. There is a connected energy that you experience on stage when performing music that is very specific and that I do not find anywhere else in my life. Perhaps the closest analogy would be the kind of stillness you might feel sitting on the beach or on top of a mountain—feeling both empty and full at the same time. I think also going to see performance, whether it be dance or theatre or opera or music, has a similar effect on me, but the performance element goes another step further.

What are you making space for in your life?

I have a six-year-old son and I am watching him grow and change every single day. This week he started reading his first words and it is the most amazing and joyous feeling to watch this discovery in him. I am trying to make as much space in my life as I can to be with him as he grows.

What can’t you live without?

I cannot live without my family. I am aware of the impermanence and fragility of life and how things are constantly changing. I remain very close to my family, my wife and son of course, but also my siblings and parents, and my bandmates who are like family to me.

What’s your pre-show ritual?

This depends on what kind of show it is! If it’s difficult virtuosic music I will often be rehearsing up until the very last moment before getting ready to go on stage. If it is more relaxed, I will likely drink a beer!

What’s the last show you saw?

I went to a performance of the Richard Strauss opera Elektra at the Opéra Bastille in Paris conducted by my friend Semyon Bychkov. It was incredibly powerful and moving.

What’s your favourite thing to do in Toronto?

I have many friends in Toronto whom I love to visit with. I like going running by the lake and love going to see shows at Massey Hall.

Backstage with... David Chalmin

Over the past decade, David Chalmin has created music as a producer, arranger, and sound engineer alongside some of the most respected indie figures worldwide, including The National and Shannon Wright. But the talented artist is also a contemporary music composer who founded the Dream House Quartet with pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and Bryce Dessner, and a mastermind of heady electronica in his solo albums La terre invisible and Innocence.

Born in Chambéry, France, David has been spending time abroad lately for the Dream House Quartet’s North American tour. Together with Bryce, Marielle, and Katia (who is also his life partner), he’ll be visiting Toronto for the group’s only Canadian stop on May 3. Ahead of their performance at Meridian Arts Centre, we spoke to David about the minimalist movement, falling in love with the electric guitar, and his dog Satie.

Where do you find inspiration?

Inspiration comes from a lot of different places. It can be other music, a sound from nature, a film, an art installation, or a conversation with a friend.

In the case of the Dream House Quartet, the minimalist movement that started in the second half of the 20th century was a starting point. Composers such as Moondog, Steve Reich, Phil Glass, or LaMonte Young had a huge influence on my writing for the Quartet. And I know for whom I’m composing, so of course it’s a great inspiration to write specific parts that will be played by Katia and Marielle Labèque or Bryce Dessner!

Bryce is also a huge inspiration to me, watching his scores and listening to his compositions stimulate my creativity as well as knowing that our pieces are performed in the same program.

What led you to become an artist?

I grew up in very strong musical environment with my parents being amateur musicians and organizing concerts at home. I’ve always been surrounded by music and musicians. At 14 I fell in love with the electric guitar, and I knew then that I wanted to be a musician. Meeting with Katia actually gave me the courage and confidence to try to be a producer, composer, and musician.

What’s the importance of the performing arts in your life? It’s of course a central part of my life, but being a producer and a composer, I also love being home in my studio to create new music. I feel very lucky to have this balance of going on tours occasionally and then being able to stay in the studio for longer periods of time and be creative.

What are you making space for in your life? Music, creativity, love, friends, nature, laughs, and my dog Satie!

What can’t you live without?

Music and the woman I love (and my dog Satie?!!).

What’s the last show you saw?

Katia and Marielle Labèque performing Mozart on Forte Pianos with Giardino Armonico in Paris Philharmonie. Pure bliss!

What’s your favourite thing to do in Toronto?

I wish I could tell you but it’s only my second time here and while on tour, we never have much time to hang around...Please tell me what I should absolutely do!

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