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About the Festival
[edit]Montreal Baroque Festival is an initiative of Susie Napper, Montreal cellist and gambist who was nominated “Personality of the Year 2002” by the Conseil Québecoise de la Musique.
Old Montreal’s Early Music Festival, the Montreal Baroque Festival offers a unique opportunity to hear music of the 17th and 18th centuries, performed by Canadian and international celebrities, in appropriate and unusual settings. Snaking through the narrow streets of the Old City to the sound of a hundred flutes at the festival’s Grand Parade, relaxing at a garden concert, catching a choral concert in a chapel or simply enjoying a street performance, this festival gives a new cultural identity to Old Montreal, attracting international tourists and local music lovers as well as novices to Early Music.
The Montreal Baroque Festival presents concerts in innovative settings with the help and encouragement of existing cultural institutions in the Old City. Museums such as the Musée de la Pointe-à-Callière and the Château Ramezay as well as the Musée Stuart, the Chapelle and Marché Bonsecours have all become partners to help promote the Old City on a cultural level. They have offered unique venues to the Festival for concert performances that have been attracting capacity audiences. During the 1st Edition of the Festival, in June 2003, Montreal Baroque was the first to present concerts in the crypt of the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de Bonsecours, the Station de Pompage de la Pointe-à-Callière, (both concerts had to be repeated several times to accommodate the demand), and the newly renovated gardens of the Chateau Ramezay.