Virtuosity, great sensitivity, warm personality – the reputation of Alain Lefèvre is beyond reproach. As a manifestation of his eagerness to champion contemporary Canadian repertoire, he’ll be premiering the Piano Concerto by Walter Boudreau, a Montreal composer honored many times over and artistic director as well as principal conductor of the SMCQ since 1988.
Former assistant conductor under Ozawa and Levine and today music director of the Seattle Symphony and Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the French conductor Ludovic Morlot will open the concert with excerpts from Richard Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser and will conduct Claude Debussy’s Images.
