{"id":102975,"date":"2024-04-03T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=102975"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:45:04","slug":"preview-vivaldi-piazzolla-violinist-isabella-deloize-perron-talks-tour-recording-francis-choiniere-filmharmonic-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/04\/03\/preview-vivaldi-piazzolla-violinist-isabella-deloize-perron-talks-tour-recording-francis-choiniere-filmharmonic-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Vivaldi &amp; Piazzolla: Violinist Isabella d&#8217;\u00c9loize Perron Talks About Her Tour &amp; Recording With Francis Choini\u00e8re and the FILMharmonic Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102979\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-27.jpg\" alt=\"Violinist Isabella d'\u00c9loize Perron (Photo: Tam Photography)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-27.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-27-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-27-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-PREVIEW-27-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violinist Isabella d&#8217;\u00c9loize Perron (Photo: Tam Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vivaldi and Piazzola&#8217;s Four Seasons, presented by GFN Productions, and performed by violinist Isabella d&#8217;\u00c9loize Perron with conductor Francis Choini\u00e8re and the FILMharmonic Orchestra, is on a tour that will take them to US and Canadian dates. The tour will kick off in Qu\u00e9bec City on April 4, and hit Toronto on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>As the tour hits cities from Vancouver to Philadelphia and Boston, both Isabella and Francis will be making their debuts at Stern Auditorium \/ Perelman Stage at New York City\u2019s Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of Vivaldi&#8217;s Four Seasons and Piazzolla&#8217;s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, which has proven popular on stage, is now also immortalized on an album just released on March 22, feauturing a performance recorded at Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Maison Symphonique in September 2023<\/p>\n<p>We asked Isabella a few questions about the music that she\u2019s put together, and the tour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102980\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-Copy-of-INTERVIEW-8.jpg\" alt=\"Conductor Francis Choini\u00e8re, alone and conducting the FILMharmonic Orchestra with violinist Isabella d'\u00c9loize Perron (Photo: Tam Photography)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-Copy-of-INTERVIEW-8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-Copy-of-INTERVIEW-8-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-Copy-of-INTERVIEW-8-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/Copy-of-Copy-of-INTERVIEW-8-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conductor Francis Choini\u00e8re, alone and conducting the FILMharmonic Orchestra with violinist Isabella d&#8217;\u00c9loize Perron (Photo: Tam Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Personnel<\/h2>\n<h3>Francis Choini\u00e8re<\/h3>\n<p>Winner of the prestigious Prix Goyer M\u00e9c\u00e9nat Musica 2023 and the Hnatyshyn Foundation\u2019s Christa and Franz-Paul Decker Conducting Fellowship, conductor Francis Choini\u00e8re\u2019s busy schedule will see him conducting just under 70 concerts this year in 20 different concert halls across North America. He\u2019s worked with international stars like Ute Lemper and Sarah Brightman, among many others. In 2022, he worked as assistant conductor with conductor Jacques Lacombe at the Canadian Opera Company for a production of Bizet\u2019s Carmen.<\/p>\n<p>Francis is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the OPCM (Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des M\u00e9lomanes), and the Principal Conductor and Co-Artistic Director of l\u2019Orchestre FILMharmonique. He is co-founder and president of GFN Productions, and his work has been featured in multiple films and recordings, including Phon\u00e8me (Francois Dompierre), Arise (Clann), and Hidden Assets (Michel Corriveau), among others.<\/p>\n<h3>Isabella d\u2019\u00c9loize Perron<\/h3>\n<p>Isabella has been playing the violin since the age of two, and made her concert debut by five. Before she turned 10, Isabella performed as soloist with the Orchestre M\u00e9tropolitain and the String Orchestra I Musici.She\u2019s gone on to perform as a guest artist with the Peninsula Symphony (San Francisco, CA), the National Theater Orchestra (Prague National Theater, Czech Republic), the Vancouver Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lethbrige Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple international prize wins, including first prize in the International Radio Competition for Young Performers Concertino Praga organized by Czech radio under the patronage of the EBU (European Union of Radio-Television) \u2014 leading to a tour of the Czech Republic \u2014 and first prize at and highest score in all categories at the Canadian Music Competition, Isabella is continuing her studies with Erika Raum at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory. Isabella was the Grand Prize Winner of the Robert W. and G. Ann Corcoran Concerto Competition at the GGS in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella performs in Vermont, USA in 2013 at the age of 13:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QfVKwqYHE60?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Isabella d\u2019\u00c9loize Perron: The Q&amp;A<\/h2>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve been playing the violin since you were a very young child. Do you remember what drew you to it? Was there a moment when you realized it\u2019s what you wanted to pursue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was only 2 1\/2 years old so my memory is partially informed by what my mother has since told me\u2026but I do distinctly remember taking in many concerts in between the ages of 3 and 5. I remember watching my mother and her colleagues perform in Boca Raton, Florida, which is where we lived until 2005 as she had a teaching position at the University there. Having an older sister (10 years older) who also plays violin was a source of inspiration to me. As early as I can remember I was drawn towards music \u2014 always singing, humming back melodies I heard, and playing with the piano.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother was a respected early childhood music pedagogue, and she started me on both violin and piano, along with theory rudiments\/solf\u00e8ge. She had a real passion for teaching young children music, as she never had the opportunity herself coming from a very modest family.<\/p>\n<p>There was never a specific moment I realized I wanted to pursue music \u2014 it always felt like the natural path to go down. It\u2019s hard not to be drawn towards music when that is all your family is doing\/thinking about! It is an incredibly rich world that gives back tenfold what you invest in it. I\u2019ve learned so much about life through music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What led to your collaboration with the Orchestre FILMharmonique?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I met Francis Choini\u00e8re in 2018 when I was studying at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montr\u00e9al completing a two-year degree in viola. He was at McGill at the time, and we found each other through mutual friends. He asked me if I would like to perform the Piazzolla Four Seasons with the OPCM, and I gladly accepted. This is what started our collaboration, and eventually becoming a part of GFN productions with the wonderful Orchestre FILMharmonique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you come up with the idea for this repertoire, which is on your recording as well as the program in concert? What drew you to the music, and to the idea of juxtaposing the two different ideas about the Four Seasons?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is Francis that came up with the idea! As I mentioned previously, we had already performed the Piazzolla Four Seasons together before (which I only discovered through him), and it\u2019s a work I fell in love with from the moment I heard it. Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons also hold a special place in my heart, as they are amongst the very first pieces I ever got to perform with orchestra! I believe there is a video of a 13-year-old me playing Vivaldi\u2019s Summer floating around on Youtube\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When he asked me if I would like to tour with the two works, I was thrilled to join in. I absolutely love performing Vivaldi and Piazzolla alongside each other as I get to explore a wide range of styles, emotions, and characters. The Piazzolla allows me to fully dive into the romance, tension, and passion of Argentinian Tango. This 1998 Leonid Desyatnikov arrangement of Piazzolla\u2019s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires that we are playing draws distinct quotations from Vivaldi\u2019s original Four Seasons, linking the two works nicely together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KN3qWr6WvSQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>There is always so much to work with in Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, and I am not surprised that it has maintained such a wide appeal to this day. Vivaldi was especially creative in his use of harmony and rhythm\u2026it really does have its rock-n-roll moments. It\u2019s also an exciting work as it was one of the first programmatic pieces of music ever written, full of vivid Italian imagery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your feeling about playing in Carnegie Hall for the first time? What is it for an artist to perform in this Hall?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact we are going to play in Carnegie! There is so much talk around it\u2026lots about the \u201cspecial acoustic\u201d, but there is this \u201cprestige\u201d that has built over time because of how many great artists have performed there. All of my favourite artists, including Nina Simone (who actually recorded a live album there in 1963), have blessed this hall with their presence, so I am most looking forward to feeling what the energy of Carnegie hall will be like keeping this in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not so many artists tour nowadays, with costs so prohibitive. How important is touring to an artist, especially in the early stages of a career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I realize it is no small feat to put together a tour of this magnitude. This speaks volumes to the quality of the team behind GFN productions. So firstly, hats off to them for making this happen!<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I am incredibly excited, as it is always so special for me to get to perform live for an audience. There is something intangible about the connection between a performer and a live audience \u2014 we collectively feel this magic happen when an artist has something to communicate and has a receptive audience to bounce their energy off of.<\/p>\n<p>Post-COVID, as we all know, many arts organizations have struggled to attract audiences, so I feel very grateful to be part of a tour that will reach so many people, let alone getting to play in some of the most beautiful halls of North-America.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can stream the new recording and find tickets for the 11-city tour [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/gfnvivaldi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Are you looking to promote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a\"><u>event<\/u><\/span><\/a>? 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