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Montreal conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni always breathes new life into baroque and classical music, and has fashioned an exhilarating and inspiring program that includes incidental music from Rameau's opera Les Paladins and Schubert's celebrated "Unfinished" Symphony. Vancouver soprano Simone Osborne is featured in Mozart's celebratory motet "Exsultate, jubilate" ("Rejoice, be glad"), and in Bach's beloved cantata "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" ("Praise God in All Lands"), a work which also features our Principal Trumpet, Robin Doyon.

Mozart: "Exsultate Jubilate"
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
J.S. Bach: Cantata No. 51 "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"
Rameau: Les Paladins: Suite

 

$65 Dress Circle (A)
$53 Terrace (B)
$39 Orchestra (C)
$25 Upper Circle (D)
$20 Orchestra Front (F)
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The next Midweek Classics performance is March 17, 2010.

Program Information

Program

Rameau: Les Paladins: Suite (20')*

J.S. Bach: Cantata No. 51 "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen" (19')*
Simone Osborne, soprano
Robin Doyon, trumpet

Intermission

Mozart: "Exsultate Jubilate" (17')*
Simone Osborne, soprano

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" (24')*

Artist Information

 

Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor

 

Jean-Marie Zeitouni has emerged as one of Canada’s brightest young conductors. His association with Les Violons du Roy goes back seven years, first as Conductor in Residence and since 2004 as Associate Conductor. His recent CD with the ensemble, titled "Piazzolla," garnered a JUNO Award in 2007. The current season is another landmark year for the conductor with a long list of subscription debuts and return engagements. 2008/09 was one of Mr. Zeitouni’s most impressive seasons yet. He appeared with numerous major orchestras, including the Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony and the symphonies of San Antonio, Oregon, and Omaha. He also led several opera productions from the pit, among them Lucia de Lammermoor by Donizetti at Cincinnati Opera, Faust at Calgary Opera and Mozart’s Il re pastore with Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

During the 2007/08 season, Jean-Marie Zeitouni debuted with the Edmonton Opera in a production of Carmen. He gave his debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and returned to the Festival Lanaudière with both the Montréal Symphony and Les Violons du Roy. As part of his 2006/07 season, he conducted the highly anticipated world premiere of John Estacio and John Murrell’s Frobisher at Calgary Opera in a co-production with The Banff Centre. and he made his long-awaited debut with Glimmerglass Opera. Prior to his commitments with Les Violons du Roy and l’Opera de Montréal, he was music director of a wide array of smaller ensembles and choirs. He was also director of the orchestra and opera workshop of the Faculty of Music at Laval University, the choir director of the Québec Symphony Orchestra and the chorus master at l’Opéra de Québec. Mr. Zeitouni graduated from the Montréal Conservatory in conducting, percussion and theory. He studied with Raffi Armenian.

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