Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Radio-Canada interviews young composer Antoine Villéger


The Butterfly and The Bee, suite...

The May 10 Vancouver Chamber Choir concert was recorded by Radio-Canada in Vancouver.

After Antoine's piece "The Butterfly and the Bee" then garnered two prizes, we received an invitation to have him appear in the May 28 edition of  Boulevard du Pacifique, the marquee weekday afternoon radio show presented by Jacques Dufresne.

Two of Antoine's pieces were broadcast during the segment, "Song without Words" with the Lions Gate Sinfonia conducted by Maestro Clyde Mitchell and "Le Nuage" from Svetlana Ponomarëva's latest CD


700 Hamilton Street in front of the show's billboard...
...And now "live on air" with Jacques Dufresne in the studio!

The technical team: Susana & Marc surrounding the guest (Melanie missing) 


 To all at Radio-Canada, merci for your warm welcome!







Friday, May 17, 2019

"The Butterfly and the Bee"




Antoine Villéger “The Butterfly and the Bee” (op.13)
after a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Vancouver Chamber Choir
Conducted by Jon Washburn
At the 14th Biennial Young Composer’s Competition
May 10, 2019





Antoine received the First Place in Elementary Division
and a Special Barbara Pentland Awards for outstanding composition!




(with conductor Jon Washburn)