THE EMERGING TALENT HUB OF LE VIVIER
The Emerging Talent Hub is Le Vivier’s support program for emerging creation. Funded by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ), this program includes accompaniment, broadcasting, and circulation of emerging artists' works. It allows a new generation of artists to be financially supported, benefit from mentorship, promotion, and personalized accompaniment according to their needs.
The Emerging Talent Hub accompanies emerging projects through various forms of mentorship, ideation, and support to professionalize artists and support them in their early careers.
Le Vivier has always been committed to supporting the community of emerging new music artists. This commitment is expressed through its programming, but also by the creation of the Vivier interUniversitaire (ViU) in 2015, whose objective is to promote contemporary musical creation within the various higher education institutions in Montreal.
Le Vivier wishes to go further by providing more support to young artists in the deployment of their first artistic projects, enabling them to advance further in their development.
Operation of the Emerging Talent Hub
In the prototyping phase, the deployment of the Emerging Talent Hub begins with the selection of artists and projects that Le Vivier and its artistic direction wish to support. The accompaniment can then begin. Le Vivier connects musicians and provides them with initial leads and tools to deploy their projects. Once this initial training stage is established, the ensembles, still accompanied and monitored by Le Vivier, roll out their action plan according to their needs: development of a communication strategy, visual identity, artistic mentorship, coordination, residency output, grant applications...
In parallel with this mentorship mission, Le Vivier is committed to programming these ensembles during its cultural seasons and connecting them with broadcasters in Montreal and Canada.
Achievements of the Emerging Talent Hub
- 21 artistic projects supported
- 79 artists
- 19 broadcasts in Montreal
- More than 600 hours of training and mentorship aimed at professionalization and the implementation of promotional, circulation, networking, and mediation tools, promoting the reach of these projects to audiences.
- 9 collaborations and partnerships that continue to welcome projects carried by the Emerging Talent Hub.
- International proposal: Paris / IRCAM
- Presentation of projects to an international delegation.
For the upcoming season, 5 new artistic projects, each as promising as the next, will be broadcast in Montreal and circulate throughout Quebec via the Emerging Talent Hub.
Les nouveaux artistes du Pôle Relève
Ces nouveaux artistes ont été retenu·e·s à travers un appel à projet lancé en janvier 2024 et riche en candidatures les plus intéressantes les unes que les autres. Nous retrouverons :
The New Artists of the Emerging Talent Hub
These new artists were selected through a call for projects launched in January 2024, rich in interesting applications. We will find:
GABRIEL TROTTIER
is a solo horn player, chamber musician, and orchestral musician performing a repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary music on historical and modern instruments. HORN RECITAL: development of a program of 5 pieces for horn and electro, sharing a common denominator in their relationship to nature.
DUO PULSAR
is an encounter between two instruments not usually in the spotlight: the bass clarinet and percussion, played by Gwénaëlle Ratouit and Béatrice Roy respectively. MEETING THE UNEXPECTED: the program highlights the timbral and rhythmic oppositions between the bass clarinet and percussion, while seeking to unite them in a common language.
REBECCA GRAY
is a soprano, composer, and improviser passionate about performing and creating classical and contemporary repertoire. Her composition work results in a collection of experimental queer operas. BUS OPERA: at the crossroads of opera and theater, this absurd fantasy addresses themes of generational fears and hopes, and gender identity, while exploring numerous musical styles.
ROSANE LAJOIE
is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where she obtained a master's degree with distinction in Suzanne Goyette's class. Passionate about vocal art, she perfected her accompaniment skills at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she won the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Award in contemporary music. BETWEEN WORDS AND BREATHS: commission and creation of two cycles of melodies for voice and piano on French texts.
ENSEMBLE A MER
was formed at the initiative of Maddalena Ohrbach (mezzo-soprano singer) to build bridges between genres. While its members share a common foundation in classical and contemporary institutional training, their respective backgrounds are also marked by popular music such as Latin, jazz, metal, electro, and mixed music. This aesthetic plurality is reflected in the creative process at work. WAVES AND LINES: a song cycle by New Zealand composer Gemma Peacocke, this work contains a complex geopolitical and cultural reality in that the poems in this cycle are, originally, landays: folk texts sung orally among Afghan women. These texts distill and reflect a reality intertwining religion, politics, culture, history, and how these considerations influence the lives of women in this region, a place of meeting and tension between civilizations for centuries.
