visuel note Nouba
Artist(s) and Ensemble(s)

OKTOÉCHO
ANOUAR BERREDA, chant soufi
KHALIL MOQADEM, oud
BERTIL SCHULRABE, percussions

VINCENT LAUZER, flûte à bec
SUSIE NAPPER, viole de gambe
DANIEL ZULUAGA, guitare

Program
Anonyme

Musique andalouse Nouba de Uchad
    Prélude
    Chant libre
    Prélude rythmé Qoddam Uchaq
    Pièce no 1 : Ya nassima
    Pièce no 2 : Assabah
 

Diego Ortiz (1510-1570)

Recercada Segunda sobre O Felici Occhi Miei
Recercada segunda sobre tenores Italianos (arr. Susie Napper)

Manuel Machado (v.1590-1646)

Dos estrellas le siguen (arr. Susie Napper)    

Anonyme

Musique andalouse Nouba de Uchad
    Pièce no 3 : Wa Nach’kourou 
    Pièce no 4 : Layli 
 

Antonio de Santa Cruz (v.1690)

Jácaras por 5, que es la E

Diego Ortiz

Recercada sobre Doulce Mémoire
Recercada primera sobre tenores italianos
 

Anonyme

Musique andalouse Nouba de Uchad
    Pièce no 5 : Ma Nachki
    Pièce no 6 : Ya ‘jabni

Anonyme (16e siècle)

Riu, riu Chiu la guarda ribera 

Francisco Repilado (1907-2003)

Buena Vista (Chan Chan; arr. Susie Napper)

Anonyme

Musique andalouse Nouba de Uchad
    Pièce no 7 : Dahika
    Pièce no 8 : Raâa llahou

Program Notes

Open your eyes for the 7am concert to the bright sounds of flamboyant Spanish music from Andalusia combined with parts of a dawn “nouba” in the Sufi tradition! Oktoécho with Festival musicians.

Biographies

Oktoécho guides the listener into a sonic world brimming with lyricism in a space between the musics of the Middle East, Arboriginal and the West. Under the artistic direction of composer Katia Makdissi-Warren, Oktoécho explores mixed music and musical sounds through its own creations.

The group has recorded soundtracks for film and expositions in Canada, France, Singapore, Korea, Lebanon and created the music for a permanent multi-media exhibit at the Burj-Dubaï Tower in Dubai, the highest structure in the world. Oktoécho has toured in Spain and in Canada and has recently performed at the prestigious Beiteddin Festival in Lebanon. Okotécho has appeared at numerous venues : Festival du Monde arabe de Montréal, Festival Présence autochtone, Festival séfarade de Montréal, l’Off-Festival de Jazz de Montréal, Palais Montcalm de Québec, Koerner Hall de Toronto.
The ensemble collaborates with renowned international artists such as Naseer Shamma (Egypt), Marcel Khalifé et Charbel Rouhana (Lebanon), Rachid Zeroual (Maroc), Farida (Irak), Peter Herbert (Austria), Lena Chamamyian (Syria) et Sergio Puccini (Argentina) et collaborates also with chamber orchestra such as I Musici de Montréal. The group has released 6 albums : Zeugma, Eponyme, La 5e route bleue, At the Top (Burj Khalifa), Saimaniq and Transcetral. The CDs are regularly broadcast on CBC Radio and Espace Musique. Oktoecho is an award-nominated ensemble. Nominations include the Canadian Folk Music Award 2009 (Best Album of world music, Band of the Year, Best Instrumental Album of the Year); OPUS Awards Record of the Year Jazz and World Music (2009, 2010, 2012).




Hailed for his athletic and virtuoso playing and for his sensitive interpretations, recorder player Vincent Lauzer leads an active career as a performer, artistic director, and teacher. He is the artistic director of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, the co-artistic director of Les Plaisirs du Clavecin, works with Arion Baroque Orchestra to develop programs for young audiences and since November 2022, he is the co-artistic director of the Montreal Baroque Festival. In October 2018, his recording of Vivaldi's concertos with Arion Baroque Orchestra was awarded a Diapason d'Or by the famous French magazine Diapason.

Winner of several prizes in national and international competitions, he has been awarded the Fernand Lindsay Career Award, a scholarship given to a young promising Canadian musician for the development of an international career. He was named Révélation Radio-Canada in 2013-2014 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2012 Opus Awards. In 2012, he won the First Prize at the Stepping Stone of the Canadian Music Competition and the Career Development Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.

Vincent is a member of Flûte Alors! and regularly performs as a soloist with Arion Baroque Orchestra, La Bande Montréal Baroque, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. He has played in various series and festivals in Canada and in the United States as well as in Mexico, France, Germany, Spain and Belgium. Vincent teaches at McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, at CAMMAC music camp, for the Outaouais Recorder Society, and for the Toronto Early Music Players Organization.




Cellist, gambist, continuo player par excellence, Susie Napper is alternatively praised or admonished for her colourful and controversial performances of solo and chamber repertoire of the baroque. Characterized by rubato, general freedom of expression, variety of bow strokes and undying preference for harmony over melody, she constantly searches for rhetorical meaning and eloquence to bring the printed page to life. Susie Napper was recognized as Femme de Mérite, ( YWCA 2011) and  Personality of the year, Prix Opus, in 2002.

A rebel to the core, from an artistic milieu in London, in her teens she played first performances of Ligetti and Stockhausen as well as performance-art productions in alternative venues. By contrast she studied at the Juilliard School in New York at the height of the Vietnam resistance and at the Paris Conservatoire at the end of the student riots of ‘68. San Francisco followed, where, having had an epiphany on receiving a bass viol, she threw herself headlong into new-wave, HIP baroque music-making, teaching herself the viol by playing, reading treatises and creating new styles of performance inspired by old. Her arrangements of music stolen from the wider baroque repertoire amuse musicians and audiences alike!

As well as co-founding the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco with her partner and inspiration, baroque oboist and writer, the late Bruce Haynes, they spent decades parenting delightful kids and musicing worldwide. In Montreal she created the Montreal Baroque Festival, a vehicle to unite the multitalented, Montreal early music community. Susie Napper has spent decades with a foot on either side of the Atlantic recording, performing, teaching in Montreal and Copenhagen and touring Europe, the Far East and Oceania with both the viol duo, Les Voix humaines and with Ensemble Caprice. Centre of her domaine and a constant pleasure has been her kitchen where colourful, flavourful, creative dishes have mirrored her musical taste to surprise, move and inspire.
 


Colombian lutenist and guitarist Daniel Zuluaga has been praised for his “rhythmic vitality and fine sense of color” (Washington Post), and for his “great inventiveness” as an accompanist (San Francisco Classical Voice). A Juno award winner (2016), he performs regularly with leading orchestras in the US and Canada, including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, L’Harmonie des Saisons, San Diego Bach Collegium, and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Also an avid researcher, Mr. Zuluaga holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Southern California (2014); he has published articles on the early history of the guitar and won several awards for musicological studies. Mr. Zuluaga is based in Montreal and is visiting faculty at the Universidad Central in Bogotá, Colombia. He is currently preparing a solo baroque guitar recording of the music of Henry François de Gallot.