It is at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) that the musical offerings of the historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd will be redeployed after the fire which seriously damaged it on May 25.
Twenty-five free music concerts will be offered during the fall of 2023. The first event at the CCA’s Paul-Desmarais theater will take place on September 24, 2023. This inaugural concert will feature Ukrainian-born pianist Olga Kudriakova.
Among the other artists in the program, we note a “prestige concert” provided by André Laplante and the Arthur-LeBlanc quartet with the Quintet with piano by Brahms on October 11 and the presence of Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais, winner of the 2023 Europe Prize and Radio-Canada Révélation 2023-2024 on November 5.
The chapel’s iconic instruments — the Fazioli concert piano and the 1772 Kirckman harpsichord restored by Oliver Esmonde-White and Yves and Benoît Beaupré respectively — will be used at the Canadian Center for Architecture.
There will also be a Fazioli piano that belonged to the playwright Normand Chaurette, a great music lover and amateur pianist. Following his death in 2022, Mr. Chaurette generously bequeathed all his assets to the National Theater School of Canada. The school wished to return this piano to the historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd, in accordance with the wishes of Mr. Chaurette, so that the instrument would be made available to the classical music community in his memory. This restored Fazioli will be inaugurated on November 26, 2023 as part of a series of concerts for two pianos.
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