From Italian Baroque to contemporary issues, a rich and open Fall Program
September 5, 2026 • WestmountMag.ca
Bourgie Hall launches its fall season with four events that reflect the full scope of its programming: early music, immersive digital creation, great Romantic piano repertoire, and a contemporary work presented for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Early music, digital installations and an exceptional recital will animate Montreal’s cultural season opening.
From September 24 to 30, audiences will travel from Renaissance Italy to the technological and environmental issues of our time, then revisit the sweeping emotions of the French and Liszt repertoires and hear a leading Indigenous voice on the Canadian operatic scene.
IL GIOCO DELLA CIECA – BLIND LOVE
The season opens on Thursday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m., with Il Gioco della Cieca – Blind Love, performed by the ensemble Concerto di Margherita.
Bringing together five performers, striking voices, and period instruments, the program explores the vibrant Italy of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. The ensemble revives a musical world where vocal refinement, theatrical expression, and instrumental richness converge.
RÉMANENCES – DIGITAL ART AND MUSIC
On Saturday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m., Bourgie Hall welcomes Rémanences, an audiovisual performance conceived by artists Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig. Presented in collaboration with POP Montréal, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain and Heavy Trip, the project unfolds through two installations. Inflorescences imagines a new ecology born of electronic waste, while Cyberdélia takes the form of an oracle revealing visions shaped by Anthropocene concerns.
At the intersection of digital art, music and immersive installation, Rémanences reflects Bourgie Hall’s openness to contemporary forms and to dialogue across disciplines.
MICHEL DALBERTO, PIANO
On Tuesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m., French pianist Michel Dalberto will inaugurate the Exceptional Pianists series.
An acclaimed figure on the international piano scene with an extensive discography, Michel Dalberto will perform a program devoted to great gems of the French repertoire, along with works by Franz Liszt marked by lyricism, heroism and mysticism.
This concert is presented with the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane — Centre for French Romantic Music, in Italy — and the estate of Marie-Paule Laurans.
NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
September’s programming concludes on Wednesday, September 30, in observance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais will perform Rien ne tuera ma lumière (Nothing Will Kill My Light), a work for solo voice built around a text by Innu poet Maya Cousineau Mollen and set to music by Anishinaabe composer Barbara Assiginaak.
Jointly commissioned by Bourgie Hall and the International Festival of Literature (FIL) in 2023, the work will be presented three times — at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. — in the exhibition galleries of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The presentation is dedicated to the memory of composer Cris Derksen.
This Bourgie Hall initiative is presented in collaboration with FIL and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
TICKETS
Tickets are available online or by phone at 514-285-2000, option 1, or toll-free at 1-800-899-6873, daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Bourgie Hall box office also opens one hour before concert time. Tickets may also be purchased at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts box office during the Museum’s regular opening hours.
To discover the full 2026–2027 season program, consult the brochure.
Feature image: Il Gioco della Cieca – Blind Love
Images courtesy of Bourgie Hall
Bourgie Hall presents over a hundred concerts a year in various musical styles, from jazz to classical works and from Baroque music to contemporary creations. Its high-calibre programming features some of the most prominent Canadian and international musicians of their generation. bourgiehall.ca
