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Members Pascale Giguere, Benoît Loiselle, Nicole Trotier Albums Diane Dufresne et Les violons du Roy Similar Bernard Labadie, Valérie Milot, Karina Gauvin, Marie‑Nicole Lemieux, Alexandre Tharaud Profiles |
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Les Violons du Roy is a French-Canadian chamber orchestra based in Québec City, Québec. The orchestra's principal venue is the Palais Montcalm in Québec City. The orchestra also performs concerts in Montréal at the Place des Arts, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and St. James United Church.
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- Val rie milot mathieu lussier les violons du roy concerto en do majeur f a boieldieu
- Mozart symphony 29 in a major bernard labadie les violons du roy
- Music Directors
- Songs
- References
In 1984, Bernard Labadie founded the ensemble, following productions at the Université Laval of the baroque operas Dido and Aeneas and L'incoronazione di Poppea, using the orchestra for these productions as the new ensemble's core. The ensemble's name is an adaptation of the 17th century French royal court orchestra Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi. Numbering 15 musicians, the orchestra performs on modern instruments, but incorporates period performance practice into its performances of music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including using duplicates of period bows for string instruments, and sparing use of vibrato. Labadie founded an affiliate chorus for Les Violons du Roy in 1985, under the original name of Ensemble vocal Bernard Labadie. In 1991, the choir changed its name to La Chapelle de Québec.
The ensemble first performed in Europe in 1988. Its first performance in Washington, D.C. was in 1995. The orchestra first appeared in New York City in August 1997.
Past conductors affiliated with the orchestra have included Jean-Marie Zeitouni, a past principal guest conductor, and Eric Paetkau, a former resident conductor. Mathieu Lussier is the current associate conductor of the orchestra, and Anthony Marwood has the title of principal artistic partner. With the 2014-2015 season, Labadie's title with the orchestra changed from music director to "founding conductor". In October 2016, the orchestra announced the appointment of Jonathan Cohen as its next music director, effective with the 2017-2018 season. Cohen is scheduled to take the title of music director designate in February 2017.
The orchestra has recorded commercially for the Dorian, Virgin Classics, and ATMA Classique labels. The ensemble has won the Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year twice: for their recording of George Frideric Handel's Apollo e Dafne and Handel's Silete Venti in 2001, and for their recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in 2003.
Mozart symphony 29 in a major bernard labadie les violons du roy
Music Directors
Songs
L'hymne à la beauté du mondeDiane Dufresne et Les violons du Roy · 2013
Canon and Gigue in D Major - P 37: Canon and Gigue in D Major: Canon2015
Madame RêveDiane Dufresne et Les violons du Roy · 2013