Gabo Champagne — Yvern / Treffpunkt Quartet

gabo champagne
gabo champagne

Blending music, experimental theatre, and movement, this poetic performance imagines a future in a world in decline.

A transformed life and climate. Yvern, a new work by transdisciplinary creator Gabo Champagne, is an imaginative exploration of winter—past, present, and envisioned at its end. This performance weaves together music, experimental theatre, and movement to tell a story that is both intimate and urgent. Gabo Champagne maps the shifting emotional landscape of a threatened season. The work imagines a future in a declining world, where memory and nostalgia take center stage. Poetic, playful, and elegiac, Yvern reflects on how winter has shaped Quebec identity, and on the consequences of its disappearance. Yvern is both a requiem for the climate we once knew and a call to face what lies ahead.

ARTISTS
Gabo Champagne (performance, composition, co-director)
Jenn Mong (piano)
Yang Chen (percussion)
An Laurence Higgins (guitar)
Thomas Gauthier-Lang (saxophone)
Émilie Fortin (trumpet)
Audréanne Filion (cello)
JJ Houle (stage advisor)
Darah Miah (lighting designer)

 

OPENING ACT: TREFFPUNKT SAXOPHONE QUARTET

TREFFPUNKT

 

This program brings together four works for saxophone quartet, including a new creation by saxophonist Antonin Bourgault. Each piece, in its own way, explores forms of transformation, tension, or circularity. Particular attention is given to movements—physical, mental, or symbolic—and to the ways these gestures are inscribed in sound. Rather than following a linear trajectory, these works unfold through cycles, shifts, ruptures, or ornamental gestures that continuously redefine the relationship to time and listening.

ARTISTS
Guy Lavoie (soprano saxophone)
Thomas Gauthier-Lang (alto saxophone)
Antonin Bourgault (tenor saxophone)
Edmond Forest (bariton saxophone)

Presented by Innovations en concert and Le Vivier in collaboration with Arts in the Margins, as part of Festival Flux and Québec Musiques Parallèles.

Program

  • Elijah Daniel Smith
    : Perihelion , 2025 (12')
  • Gemma Peacocke
    : Dwalm , 2018
  • Roshanne Etezady
    : Keen , 2004
  • : Quand je ne dis mot je parle encore , 2025 (7') for quatuor de saxophones
     - premiere
  •  - premiere

Artists

Representation(s)

Place

La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines

Pricing

Solidarity 35$
Regular25$
Reduced15$

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