A Word from the Artistic Director

Dear music lovers

For this our ninth season, we, Les Boréades promise our faithful public, and all music lovers, to continue to breathe life into the must beautiful works of the baroque and classical repertoire. Sonatas, trios, quartets, concertos, suites, and cantatas, of varying sizes and for all kinds of ensemble, and whether Italian, French, English, or German — we will embrace them and get to know their very essences.

While continuing to explore chamber music — naturally enough, given the makeup of our ensemble — we will also tackle more works demanding larger forces. Whether in small or larger groupings, the musicians of Les Boréades wish, above all, to apply their experience and skill to communicate the particular spirit of each work. With our characteristic attention to timbre, musical rhetoric, energy, and virtuosity, we wish to breathe youthful life into music that it is only a few centuries old.

At the very heart of the art of the baroque is the desire to convince and to unite people … This is our goal: to dazzle, to touch, to give pleasure to the senses and to stimulate minds. Do talk about us to your friends.

— Francis Colpron