I Musici celebrate their 25th anniversary with a concert performance in Côte Saint-Luc

The musical group I Musici will perform a concert at the Harold Greenspon Auditorium in Côte Saint-Luc on Thursday, May 14 at 7:30 pm.

The concert is presented by the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée and the Eleanor London Côte Saint Luc Public Library. I Musici is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Tickets for this concert are $10 each. The Harold Greenspon Auditorium is located at Côte Saint-Luc City Hall, 5801 Cavendish Blvd.

I Musici’s performance will be accompanied by a series of painted images projected onto a screen entitled Les tableaux dansants d’ une exposition by Natasha Turovsky, who is a violinist and painter.

I Musici director Yuli Turovsky studied at the prestigious Central Music School of Moscow. During this period he was principal cello of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Rudolf Barshai. He left the former Soviet Union in 1976 and settled in Montreal where he formed the Borodin Trio, which toured internationally and performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. As a soloist, he has played with the MSO, the Orchestre métropolitain and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his present role as I Musici director, Turovsky is part of the Turovsky Duo where he plays cello alongside his wife violinist Eleonora.

Eleonora Turovsky also studied at the Central Music School of Moscow from which she garnered a silver medal award for her musicianship. She also holds a Ph.D. from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she had the distinct pleasure of studying under Dmitri Tziganov, first violin of the Moscow Beethoven Quartet. Together with her husband Yuli, she has toured extensively abroad and participated in more than 40 recordings for the Chandos and Analekta labels. Her recordings have drawn critical acclaim internationally, in particular, her recording of Kodaly's Duo, Op. 7, which won the Diapason d'Or. She presently teaches violin at the Université de Montréal and Concordia University.

On the program are works by Mozart, the Turovskys and Quebec composer Denis Gougeon, which was commissioned in 1998 from to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the I Musici de Montréal.

The Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library is located at 5851 Cavendish Blvd. and is open from 10am to 10pm every day. For more information, call the library at 514-485-6900 or visit www.elcslpl.org.