The Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde, which brings together an orchestra and more than 200 singers, present, thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, his spring concert: the famous Carmina Burana, in an energetic version for two pianos and percussions. Under the direction of Maestro Michel Brousseau, the choir will be accompanied by Italian pianists Lorenzo Di Bella and Gianluca Luisi.
April 2nd – 8pm
Maison symphonique
1600, rue Saint-Urbain, Montreal
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Michel Brousseau was introduced to music very early in life. His passion and talent were quickly noticed and he started intensive piano studies at the age of nine. He rapidly developed a special interest in symphonic music and, at the age of fourteen, already knew that he would become a conductor. He studied conducting under maestro Raffi Armenian, completing his studies at the Montreal Conservatory of Music, where he was unanimously awarded the First Prize in piano. He also studied conducting with Otto Werner-Müller, Milen Nachev, Valery Vachev and Aldo Faldi, among others. In 2005, he was a finalist in the “Luigi Mancinelli” International Opera Conducting Competition in Italy. He has conducted in Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the United States and Canada.
Lorenzo Di Bella began studying piano at the age of five. A brilliant student, he graduated with the highest marks from the Conservatoire Rossini de Pesaro under Bruno Bizzarri. Winner of many international piano competitions, he appeared on the international scene in 2005 and took the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Horowitz Piano Competition in Kiev, and he is the only Italian to have won a piano competition in a country of the former Soviet Union. Lorenzo Di Bella has a very active teaching schedule as principal piano professor at the Institut Supérieur de Musique G.B. Pergolisi in Ancône, France, and as artistic director of the Accademia delle Marche Pianistica in Recanati, Italy. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Festival Classica Civitanova Piano.
The pianist Gianluca Luisi has won international critical acclaim and has appeared in major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall (New York), the Musikverein (Vienna), Nagoya Concert Hall (Japan) and with leading orchestras, including the San Carlo Symphony, the Dubrovnik Symphony, FORM, the Rossini Symphony Orchestra, among others, with prestigious ensembles such as the Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt, the Chantilly Ensemble and in duo performance with Marco Rogliano. He has made several recordings for Naxos, MDG, Onclassical and ARTS. He has a wide repertoire which includes Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the Liszt-Beethoven Symphony cycle (with Konstantin Scherbakov), the Chopin Piano Concertos, arranged for piano and string quintet, with the ECF and interesting projects with less well-known composers, including George Onslow, Cramer and many others, repertoire now available on CD. Gianluca Luisi is a Bösendorfer artist and Naxos recording artist.