Collines-en-musique: The Forest

This concert, presented collaboratively by Festival Collines-en-musique founders Carson Becke, Meghan Lindsay, and Juan Olivares with the Gryphon Trio, is a celebration of the forests that surround us here in the Gatineau Hills. The centrepiece of the program is Carson Becke’s new song cycle, The Forest. Based on texts by six poets with deep relationships to these hills – Alice-Irene Whittaker, Quinn McCart, Ilse Turnsen, Madeline Kerr, Peter Mullins, and Chris MacLean – the cycle explores the intimate and personal connections that we all feel with the birches, oaks, willows, pines, hemlocks, cedars, and elms that surround us.

To find our more about the song cycle, its creation, and the specific trees behind each poem, join Carson and the poets for a pre-concert discussion in Gwen Shea hall at 3:30pm (free entry for all).

Program

Carson Becke: The Forest – A Symphonic Song Cycle (world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Songs of Travel (excerpts, arr. for piano trio + voice)
Oscar Navarro: Creation (excerpts)
Antonin Dvorak: From the Bohemian Forest (excerpts)
Jeffrey Ryan: Chimera

Artists

Meghan Lindsay, soprano
Juan-Gabriel Olivares, clarinet
Carson Becke, piano
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano