Pierre-Yves Martel and Quartetski Does Satie

Featuring:

jazz

Amy Horvey – trumpet
Isaiah Ceccarelli – drums
Philippe Lauzier – saxophones,

bass clarinet
Pierre-Yves Martel – viola da gamba

Monday, November 16, 2009
National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage 7:00pm

 

 

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$15 - Student Tickets

 

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BIOGRAPHY

 

QUARTETSKI was formed in 2007 with the goal of rethinking and reinterpreting works by great composers of the 20th century within an improvised context. While staying true to the spirit of those composers, Quartetski uses their compositions as vehicles to discover new musical horizons, creating in the process a mosaic that is equal parts homage and exploration.

Quartetski is comprised of four up-and-coming musicians on the Montréal jazz scene. Sharing his time equally between Montreal and Paris, viola da gambist Pierre-Yves Martel is not only active in the early music world but has also continually proven himself as one of the truly promising Canadian avant-garde jazz musicians of his generation. In 2008 and 2009, Martel was a part of the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s Composers Collective, while his last show presented by the Festival was sold-out.

Formerly a student at the Berklee College of Music and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, drummer and composer Isaiah Ceccarelli has collaborated on various projects with many of Montréal's musical improv artists. Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Philippe Lauzier is active both as a composer and improviser in the fields of jazz and improvised music, having released four recordings under his own name since 2004. Well known as a a contemporary, orchestral and baroque trumpeter both in Canada and abroad, Amy Horvey is currently pursuing her doctorate in trumpet performance at McGill University in Montreal.

 

Quartetski's first album, Quartetski Does Prokofiev - Visions Fugitives Op.22, was released in December 2007 on Montréal's Ambiances Magnétiques record label. Quartetski’s newest project takes on the challenge of reinterpreting two of Erik Satie's fanciful piano compositions, Sports et divertissement and Préludes flasques.