Bozzini Quartet (Clemens Merkel, violin; Alissa Cheung, violin; Stéphanie Bozzini, viola; Isabelle Bozzini, cello)
In concert on February 20, 2024

Premiere of String Quartet No. 4 (2023–24) by Francis Battah at Salle Bleue (Wilder Building), in collaboration with Le Vivier, as part of the event Harmonies Inouïes produced by the Bozzini Quartet.

The result of a nine-month residency, this work, commissioned by the Bozzini Quartet with support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), immerses the listener in an imaginary culture with its own musical tradition. Built on a distinctive tuning system, the resulting music is constructed from microtonal scales far removed from Western traditions.

For piano, commissioned and premiered by Michel Raymond on September 28, 2018, at Salle Claude Champagne.

Pièce imposée à l’épreuve Tremplin du Concours de musique du Canada 2018.

Cette toccata exprime le conflit entre deux idées musicales : l’une lourdement chromatique et l’autre envoûtante et appartenant à un folklore imaginé. Si les deux idées sont le plus souvent entendues séparément, l’apothéose les réunit, les entrechoque, sans que l’on puisse déterminer qui est le vainqueur de ce combat.

Double Fantaisie, for two pianos, adaptation of the Fantaisie for solo piano.

Premiered on September 27, 2018 at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, revived on September 18, 2019.

Performed on May 16, 2017, at the conclusion of the Bozzini Vancouver Lab 2017.

Performed on November 4, 2017, at the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montreal, as part of a fundraising campaign for Les Porteurs de musique.