www.PrairieDebut.com

The only organization of its kind in western Canada, Prairie Debut is the conduit that

links the best Canadian classical and world music artists to over 50 communities which

are mostly rural and outside the larger centers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and

Yukon. Prairie Debut has steadfastly promoted the arts in communities that would

otherwise have no opportunity to be enriched by live classical and world music

performances of this calibre and financially supporting the tours in order for its viability

into these rural areas. In doing so, Prairie Debut contributes to community enrichment,

audience growth and emerging artist career development.

Each year, emerging and established artists from across Canada apply to tour under the auspices

of Prairie Debut. An independent artistic advisory panel selects the three artists/ensembles who

will tour with Prairie Debut the following season. Our organization then offers these selected

artists to community presenters across the Prairies and Yukon at a subsidized fee which makes

these concerts attainable to concert presenters in all locales in this vast region, from the far north

to the most southerly towns and from eastern Manitoba through to western Alberta. Prairie

Debut and our artists have traveled the 100,000 km of open prairie roads and by-ways bringing

with them instruments as varied as harpsichords, marimbas, bassoons, accordions, and yes, they

have carried multi-million dollar violins onto small prop planes in order to reach northern towns.

All this travel to reach over 1 million Western Canadians lives throughout our 20 year history.

Prairie Debut Inc. is an organization incorporated and based in

MB with adjacent incorporation in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

(Charitable No. 86799 3495 RR0001)

For more information, please visit: www.prairiedebut.com

Lynne Bailey, Executive Director, Prairie Debut

Prairie Debut is pleased to thank its generous funding partners

and numerous individuals who donate to our organization.

Their support enables our organization to enrich the lives of many.

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Prairie Debut 2016.17-Our 20th Touring Season

presents

The Lloyd Carr-HarrisFoundation

Canada Councilfor the Arts

Conseil des Artsdu Canada

+ Numerous Individual Donors

Duo Fortin-PoirierOne piano, fouR-hands

Regina SK Steinbach MB September 18/16 November 7/16Regina Musical Club Steinbach Arts Council Riddell Centre Theatre SRSS Theatre

Altona MB Rosthern SK October 1/16 November 9, 2016Southern Manitoba Concerts Station Arts Centre Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church Station Arts Theatre

Snow Lake MB Melfort SK October 3/16 November 10/16Ravna House Concerts Melfort Arts Council Ravna House CJVR Performing Arts Theatre

Whitehorse YT Estevan SK

October 8/16 November 12/16

Whitehorse Concerts Estevan Arts Council Estevan

Yukon Arts Centre Trinity Lutheran Church

Pinawa MB Minnedosa MB November 4/16 November 15/16Eastern Manitoba Concert Association Minnedosa Performing Arts Committee Pinawa Community Centre Minnedosa United Church

Duo Fortin-PoirierOne Piano, Four Hands

Duo Fortin-Poirier, featuring pianists Amélie Fortin and Marie-Christine

Poirier, has been heralded as one of the most promising of its generation.

Graduates of the Université de Montréal with a master and D.E.S.S.

(Specialized Graduate Diploma) under the direction of Jean-Eudes

Vaillancourt and Paul Stewart, each pianist has won several awards and

grants individually before making their debut as a duo team in 2005. With a

remarkably complementing musicality, they immediately developed a unique

style and a remarkable union was born. Their lively and engaging presence is

impressive and the duo’s dynamism does not go unnoticed. Since its creation, Duo Fortin-Poirier has given many concerts in Canada and

abroad. The two pianists are grant winners of the Office Franco-Québécois

pour la Jeunesse (2005), the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec (2009-

2010), the Canada Council for the Arts (2011-2013), and they have also won

First Prize at the Concours de Musique Clermont-Pépin, the Festival de

Musique du Royaume, and the Canadaian Music Competition.

At the international level, they were finalists in the Concours International

de Piano à 4 mains de Valberg (France, 2009) and in the Liszt 200 Chicago

International Piano Duos Competition (U.S., 2011). Their brilliant

interpretation of John Corigliano's Gazebo Dances also awarded them a

special mention from the jury at the prestigious Concours Grieg –

International Piano Competition in Oslo (Norway, 2010). Recently, they won

the 2nd prize at the Roma International Piano Competition (Italy, 2013). Very active in the Quebec music scene, Amélie Fortin and Marie-Christine

Poirier created a wonderful program titled Vingts doigts et un piano in 2008

and they have since performed it throughout Quebec. It was the first classical

concert selected to take part in the Entrées en Scène Loto-Québec for 2013-

2014. In 2014-2015, the Duo Fortin-Poirier was in residence at the prestigious

Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, and they performed the Lanadière

Festival opening concert in July 2015. The 2016-17 season will see the duo tour

with both Prairie Debut and Debut Atlantic. Their first CD, Vingt doigts et un piano, released in November 2013, and can

be heard on Ici Radio-Canada Première, Espace Musique and Radio

Classique Montreal and Quebec.

Mémoireswith

Duo Fortin-PoirierAmélie Fortin and Marie-Christine Poirier, piano

- PROGRAM -

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)Two Waltz-Caprices, Op. 37

I. No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor, Tempo di Valse moderatoII. No. 2 in E Minor, Tempo di Valse

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)Excerpts from Legends, Op.59

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)Souvenirs, Op. 28

I. Waltz II. SchottischeIII. Pas de deux

IV. Two-StepV. Hesitation Tango

VI. Galop

- INTERMISSION -

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)Adios Nonino

(arr. Victor Simon)

Vanessa Marcoux* (b. 1986)Chroniques d'une coupe à blanc

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

(arr. Greg Anderson)

William Bolcom (b. 1938)"The Serpent's Kiss" from The Garden of Eden

*Canadian Composer