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2010 Festival Highlights
The Montreal Chamber Music Festival will celebrate the bicentennials of Chopin and Schumann and the centennial of Samuel Barber - the last by presenting the first public performance since 1928 of the finale of a youthful violin sonata that was long thought to be lost.
"It's sweeping, with a lot of active things in the piano part.", artistic director Denis Brott said of this movement, which will be given its 21st-century premiere on May 25 by the violinist Rachel Barton Pine and the pianist who played a role in its rediscovery, Lara Downes.
The festival in St. James United Church opens May 6 with music by Chopin and Brahms. A Brahms marathon closes the event on May 29.
Four festival regulars - pianists Anton Kuerti and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, violinist Ilya Kaler and violist Marcus Thompson - focus on Schumann on May 11, 13, and 15. A pre-Mother's Day program on May 8 includes Schubert's Trout Quintet, Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals (narration by Jean Marchand) and Alexander Brott's high-spirited Canadian classic Critics' Corner.
Original scores by the American composer-pianist Stephen Prutsman are featured in a cinematic program including a screening of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. Among the jazz performers heard on Friday evenings is the 2010 Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling on May 21.
Source : Arthur Kaptainis, The Gazette, Montreal, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
All concerts take place in the beautiful
St. James United Church
463 Ste-Catherine St. West
at 8 pm. except the Brahms Marathon
which begins at 6 pm.
* Programming and artists subject to change
May 6th 
15th Anniversary Opening Concert
André Laplante
Alcan Quartet
Jan Lisiecki, Denis Brott
May 8th
Carnival of the Animals
Quatuor Claudel-Canimex
Anton Kuerti
Jean Marchand
May 11th
Simply Schumann:
The Piano According to Schumann
Anton Kuerti
Pre-Concert Talk by Richard Turp at 7:00 p.m.
May 13th 
Simply Schumann:
The Violin According to Schumann
Ilya Kaler and Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Pre-Concert Talk by Richard Turp at 7:00 p.m.
May 15th
Simply Schumann:
The Colours of His Palette
Ilya Kaler, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
Denis Brott and Marcus Thompson
Pre-Concert Talk by Richard Turp at 7:00 p.m
May 18th
Dvořák's Delights
Iryna Krechkovsky, Stephen Prutsman,
Kevin Loucks and Afiara String Quartet
May 20th
Film Night:
Beethoven and Buster Keaton
In Search of Beethoven
Afiara String Quartet and Stephen Prutsman
May 22nd
Natalie Choquette:
World Tour
May 25th 
Discovery Night:
Homage to Chopin and Barber
Lara Downes and Rachel Barton Pine
May 27th
Bach: The Complete Works
for Violin and Keyboard
Rachel Barton Pine and Luc Beauséjour
May 29th
Brahms Marathon
Six hours of Brahms for the price of
one ticket.
Rachel Barton Pine, James Campbell,
David Jalbert, Afiara String Quartet
and others.