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Espace Transition at Ste-Justine Hospital

Since 2019, the Agora Orchestra (OA) has been collaborating with Espace Transition (ET), an organization associated with Ste-Justine University Hospital Centre. ET is an innovative performing arts rehabilitation initiative conceived by Dr. Patricia Garel to help adolescents and young adults struggling with mental health issues.

Previous collaborations with this organization have been through the Opéra de Montréal’s “ET à l’opéra” project. Through this project, young people rewrite the libretto of an opera in French and reinvent the opera’s story. They learn to sing and follow a conductor, all through staging. Thanks to the arrangements of composer Éric Champagne, they were able to present unique versions of The Magic Flute, La Traviata, and La Beauté du Monde.

This season, Agora is innovating and creating a series of workshops that will focus on musical composition, in collaboration with young people from ET, the composition class at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, and musicians from the Agora Orchestra.

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Music Creation Workshops

How can music help us express ourselves through our emotions? Is there a way to convey ideas, words, and concepts to musicians so that they can set them to music? Can images inspire sounds, textures, and soundscapes? Through a series of artistic workshops led by composers Nicolas Gilbert and his students from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, with the participation of musicians from the Orchestre de l’Agora and its conductor Nicolas Ellis, participants will create a collective work that will be presented to the public at the end of the program. Participants will interact closely with the orchestra’s musicians and explore their different approaches to creativity. The 12 weeks of intensive workshops will culminate in a public performance on May 8, 2023, at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, featuring the young people of the ET and musicians from the Agora Orchestra.

Upcoming workshops