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2024 - 2025 Season - Main Events

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INSTRUMENTS OF HAPPINESS - les 100 guitares!!
For all those players who have worked with us in the past, and all those who came to the audition day.
Thanks - and here is all the information you need to keep in touch with the project.

IMPORTANT DATE: Oct. 9 - that is when we will send out our e-mail invitations to participate in the project. PLEASE - respond quickly - we are using the "First come, first served" approach to building our 100 guitar ensemble.

Details - HERE
Video - Technical details about project
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A new Tim Brady album - "Imagine Many Guitars" - Sept. 27, 2024
Four new works for multiple guitars and voices, by Tim Brady.
On REDSHIFT RECORDS.


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March 1, 2025 - "La Grande Accélération: Symphony #12" - by Tim Brady
For 100 electric guitars, 6 percussionists and 2 symphony orchestras
The largest, most ambitious 100 guitar project ever - a 45 minute symphony
with 6 conductors and video projection in full surround sound.
Video: Sylvain Marotte

Part of the the Festival Montréal/Musiques Novuelles at the Saint-Joseph's Oratory.
A coproduction of Instruments of Happiness and the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musique,
in partnership with Sixtrum, l'Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de la Montérégie and the
Orchestre symphonique des jeunes du West Island.

A ONCE IN A LIFETIME SPECTACULAR NOT TO BE MISSED!!

Jan. 9, 2025 - Symphony Nova Scotia - Upstream Festival
world premier - "Balance - concerto for improvising soloist and orchestra"
Soloist: Geordie Haley (electric guitar)  Conductor: Karl Hirzer
St. Andrew's Stage

March 6, 2025 - US premier - "This one is broken in pieces: Symphony #11"
from the 2024 CD - "Imagine Many Guitars"
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lorelie Ensemble, Beth Willer - artistic director and conductor

FALL 2024 - 3 new videos on YouTube!
October 2023: Instruments of Happiness Quartet - a new studio performance of a creation
by emerging composer / guitarist Matthew Warren Ruth
October 2023: a 2-minute "teaser" video of the April 2024 premier of the opera
"Information: Montréal, Oct. 1970" - music - Tim Brady, text - Mishka Lavigne
  November 2023: Intentions fragmentaires - a 9-minute video reimagining of this 2023 multimedia
work, created by director Susannah Haight and filmed at the Fonderie Darling in Montréal

2 Intimate Chamber Concerts
Nov. 25, 2024
Two electric guitar soloists, two generations:
Come hear Montréal's emerging composer guitarist Antoine Bensoussan
and the veteran guitar innovator Geordie Haley from Halifax.
La Sala Rossa, Montréal - 7:30 PM

March 15, 2025 - La Relève

Two electric guitar soloists, two generations:
Matthew Warren Ruth does a solo set before Tim Brady gives the first Montréal
performance of his 2022 CD "Symphony in 18 Parts for Solo Electric Guitar"

La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines, Montréal - 7:30 PM

June 4 , 2025 - String Quartet Collaboration - with Warhol Dervish
PLUS - new CD of string quartets #3, 4 and 5 by Tim Brady on LEAF MUSIC
Warhol Dervish will give the world premiers of Brady's string quartets #3, 4 and 5
in a feature concert at the Salle Bourgie, Montréal's premier chamber music venue.
The concert will launch a new CD on LEAF MUSIC of this music, recorded in July 2023.

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photo: Laurence Labat