Venue: La Chapelle (3700 Saint-Dominique, Montréal, Québec H2X 2X7) Date: October 2, 2025 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $35 (solidarity) / $25 (regular) / $15 (reduced)
Advance Tickets: https://lachapelle.tuxedobillet.com/main/le-vivier-gabo-champagne/20251002193000
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1305875390466055
Co-presented with Canadian New Music Network, daphne, EAF, Innovations en Concert, International Institute for the Critical Studies in Improvisation, Interzone, Le Vivier, Mardi Spaghetti, McGill University’s Laboratory of Urban Culture and Québec Musiques Parallèles.
A life—and climate—transformed. Yvern, a new work by transdisciplinary performance creator Gabo Champagne, is an exploration of winter’s past, present, and imagined end. Co-presented by Innovations en concert and Groupe Le Vivier as part of the 2025 Flux Festival, this performance blends music, experimental theatre, and movement to tell a story both intimate and urgent, as Gabo Champagne charts the shifting emotional terrain of a season under threat.
Poetic, playful, and elegiac, Yvern reflects on how winter shaped Quebec identity, and the meaning of its disappearance. It paints a future of a world in collapse, where memory and longing take center stage.
Yvern is a requiem for a climate we once knew, and a call to face what lies ahead.
Somewhere between virtuosity and tenderness, the Treffpunkt saxophone quartet was born from a shared desire for connection, discovery, and exploration. Composed of Antonin Bourgault, Edmond Forest, Guy Lavoie, and Thomas Gauthier-Lang, saxophonists with diverse backgrounds and inspirations, Treffpunkt is the point of convergence for their artistic visions. The quartet is interested in interpretation, creation, and composition of new repertoires adapted to their ensemble, as well as integrating new technologies to create sonic experiences that challenge our perceptions. In June 2024, the quartet presented its first concert, featuring the premiere of two works composed by its members: I’ll Meet Myself When I Get There by Thomas Gauthier-Lang and Chaosmose by Antonin Bourgault.