NACO's Apprentice Conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay leads the Orchestre de la Francophonie canadienne in a free concert at the NAC on July 19
July 10, 2002 -
Ottawa, Canada -- Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Music Director of the
Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne, will bring this orchestra of
young musicians to the National Arts Centre for the first time in a
free concert on Friday, July 19 at 19:30. Tremblay is best known to
NAC audiences as the Apprentice Conductor of the National Arts Centre
Orchestra.
The Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne will perform
Pantomime by Canadian composer Pierre Mercure, Chausson's
Poème de l'amour et de la mer with mezzo-soprano
Julie Boulianne, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F
minor. As a student at McGill University in Montreal, Julie
Boulianne came to Ottawa to participate in a masterclass led by Dawn
Upshaw at the National Arts Centre earlier this season.
The Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne was created specially
for the IVth Games of La Francophonie, which took place in the
National Capital Region in July 2001. After its debut concert that
summer on Parliament Hill as the official orchestra of the Canada Day
show which was broadcast across the country on the CBC English and
French networks, the Orchestra went on to perform a dozen more
concerts in the province of Quebec, including ceremonial
performances, symphony concerts, chamber music performances,
children's concerts and masterclasses.
The Orchestre de la francophonie has been brought to life again
this summer. In addition to the concert at the National Arts Centre
on July 19, the Orchestra performed in Quebec City on July 8, and
will perform at the Domaine Forget International Festival on July 14,
and in Montreal in Salle Claude Champagne on July 21.
In June 2001, Jean-Philippe Tremblay was one of eight conductors
chosen from Canada and abroad to participate in the National Arts
Centre's first annual Conductors Programme led by maestros Jorma
Panula and Pinchas Zukerman. This led to his appointment to the newly
created position of Apprentice Conductor of the NAC Orchestra. The
Chicoutimi-born Tremblay was recently named the first winner of the
Joyce Conger Award for the Arts valued at $10,000. He will use his
award to continue in the second year of his apprenticeship with the
National Arts Centre Orchestra. This spring he participated in the
National Conducting Institute, a project of the National Symphony
Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in
Washington DC, culminating in a concert with the National Symphony
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on June 29.
Tickets to this concert on Friday, July 19 at 19:30 are free and
may be picked up in person at the National Arts Centre Box
Office.
