Ad Hoc Ensemble
Saturday April 26, Doors, 7:30pm, Concert 8 PM at Open Space. Tickets $12 Regular, $10 for memebers , seniors and students.
Sunday April 27, Workshop for musicians and those interested in developing improvisational skills, 1 PM at Open Space. Tickets $10
Open Space welcomes The Ad Hoc / Ensemble, a group of improvising musicians with members hailing from four different Canadian cities in four different provinces. Guillaume Bourque - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet (Montreal), Christine Duncan - Voice (Toronto), Jean Martin - Drums (Toronto), Jean Félix Mailloux - Bass (Montreal), Dani Oore - Saxophone and things (Halifax) and Jesse Zubot - Violin (Vancouver) are coming together to create a brand-new ensemble that will tour from one side of the country to the other. This project was born out of a collaboration between The Music Gallery in Toronto and Montreal’s Theatre La Chapelle. The Ad Hoc Project invokes musicians and composers from Toronto and Montreal that played together in both cities.
After the success of previous collaborations that fostered dialoge between the Montreal and Toronto ensembles, the Ad Hoc Project was expanded to become a coast-to-coast venture. This year, they have been joined by presenters from three more cities: Upstreams music in Halifax, Open Space in Victoria and the Western Front in Vancouver. While last season’s concert used musicians and composers from the composed or new music scenes, this group will be entirely based on musicians with a background in improvised musics. The Ad Hoc / Ensemble, in its current manifiestation, will play together for the first time in Montreal on April 14. Together they will create a repertoire and tour it across the country.