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  1. Comme en Italie! 2026

    14:00-16:00CAD 0Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Place du Village)Rebecca Dowd-Lekx; Marie-Andrée Mathieu; Michiel Schrey

    Italian Renaissance madrigals performed outdoors in the parks of the Ville-Marie borough. SMAM musicians will sing among the audience, transforming the space into a living stage. To enhance these special moments, artisa…

  2. September 2026

  3. Le livre rouge

    19:30-21:30CAD 32Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)Ensemble COMTESSA; Isabelle Douailly-Backman; Len Torrie

    At the summit of the Catalan mountains, in the shadow of the Montserrat Monastery, pilgrims of the Middle Ages advanced to the rhythm of faith and music. This program explores the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, a 14th ce…

  4. October 2026

  5. Souffles d'Albion

    19:30-21:30CAD 65Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Ascension of Our Lord Church)Marie Magistry; Michiel Schrey; William Kraushaar

    Beneath the light of a blue-and-red stained glass window, on the worn pew of a London church, 400 years of music vibrate and shimmer. William Byrd and Henry Purcell invite us to a moment of fullness, where inter- woven…

  6. November 2026

  7. Rose, liz, printemps, verdure

    19:30-21:30CAD 32Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)Quatuor Meslanges; Marie Magistry; Ghislaine Deschambault

    In the gardens of love, amid floral garlands and forests alive with early music, nature itself becomes song and poetry. This program echoes that harmony through French polyphonic song from the 14th to the 16th centuries…

  8. The Four Seasons

    14:30-16:30CAD 69Arion Baroque Orchestra (Bourgie Hall)Leila Schayegh; Sophie Naubert; Arion Baroque Orchestra

    If Vivaldi’s Four Seasons—works forgotten for over two centuries—are today among the most beloved pieces in the Baroque repertoire, it is because they are far more than just violin concertos. Depicting the biting cold,…

  9. December 2026

  10. les Noëls du Roi-Soleil

    14:30-16:30CAD 65Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Bourgie Hall)Marie Magistry; Rebecca Dowd-Lekx; Josée Lalonde

    It is time to stroll through the Versailles galleries, adorned with winter foliage and scented with the warm wax of candles, toward the royal chapel. There, Charpentier and Lalande’s Noëls are performed—a festive music…

  11. February 2027

  12. Le miracle Palestrina

    19:30-21:30CAD 65Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Bourgie Hall)Chœur du SMAM; Andrew McAnerney

    Rome, 1562. Palestrina admires the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica, whose dome has yet to be completed. In the composer’s hands lies a score destined to define an era. The Missa Papae Marcelli embodies a new ideal,…

  13. March 2027

  14. Les sœurs de Minerve

    19:30-21:30CAD 32Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours)Andréanne Brisson-Paquin; Stéphanie Pothier; Ensemble Infusion Baroque

    In Bologna, beneath the vaulted ceilings of anatomy theatres and within 18th-century cabinets of curiosities, knowledge was built through observation and experimentation. This program pays tribute to learned women who c…

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