Olivier Thouin dreamed of becoming a violinist for as long as he can remember. At age 8 or 9, he began practising tirelessly to fulfill his dream. He studied in Joliette with Hratchia Sevadjian from 1981 to 1987, then in Montreal with Raymond Dessaints and Sonia Jelinkova from 1987 to 1995. He pursued his training with Ivan Straus in Prague and Igor Ozim in Bern. His fondest musical memories date back to his years as a student, when he played Schumann’s Quintet with Isidore Cohen, and to his performance of Brahms’ First Symphony as Concertmaster with the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra at the Berliner Philharmonie. His first time playing with the OSM musicians was in 1997 and a few years later, in 2001 and 2004, he performed with the Orchestra as a soloist. He officially joined the Orchestra in 2008. That same year, during the highly acclaimed Automne Messiaen in Montreal, he was deeply moved by the intensity with which Maestro Nagano directed Messiaen’s epic opera Saint François d’Assise, a work whose total performance time stands at more than 5 hours!
Schubert’s Famous Trout Quintet 2024-2025
Experience Vienna’s salon charm with Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet and George Onslow’s chamber music gems, featuring pianist Godwin Friesen, OSM 2022 winner.
The elegance and lighthearted humour of Vienna’s salons rise to the surface in Schubert’s Quintet, particularly its fourth movement, a suite of variations on the composer’s celebrated lied “The Trout.” His contemporary George Onslow’s bounteous chamber music output is a cornucopia of little gems to discover. This concert also provides an opportunity to hear pianist Godwin Friesen, winner of the 2022 OSM Competition.
Artists
Olivier Thouin, violin
Marianne Dugal, violin
Charles Pilon, alto
Sophie van der Sloot, cello
Ali Kian Yazdanfar, double bass
Godwin Friesen, piano
Programme
George Onslow, String Quintet no. 19 in C minor, op. 44 (32 min)
Franz Schubert, Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “Trout” (38 min)
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Olivier Thouin
Violinist
Marianne Dugal
ViolinistMarianne Dugal played in the first-violin section of the OSM for over a decade before being named Second Associate Concertmaster in 2008. She was also a soloist with the Orchestra, under Charles Dutoit and Kent Nagano. In 2008, she participated in a historic tour of Nunavik with six of her colleagues and Maestro Nagano; she was also on the tour in 2018. She is very active as a chamber player throughout Quebec, Canada and the United States. She studied under Sergiu Schwartz at the Harid Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida, where she won First Prize in the National Society of Arts and Letters’ Violin Competition. Marianne Dugal has the great privilege of playing a violin made by Stradivarius in 1716 with a Sartory bow, both generously on loan from Canimex.