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The Quartet
Since its debut in 1999, the Canadian Guitar Quartet has performed on three continents, going from one standing ovation to the next, and established a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world.
The Quartet is comprised of members Christ Habib, Steve Cowan, Jérôme Ducharme, and Louis Trépanier.
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"The Canadian Guitar Quartet made one of the greatest New York City Debuts of any artistic ensemble in decades... STUNNING !!!".
– Don Witter Jr., New York Classical Guitar Society
“…fine musicians … top-notch, individually and as an ensemble… real musical depth.”
Richard Todd, Ottawa Citizen, CANADA (2000).
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The Well-Tempered Four Seasons project
May 03, 2025 – Louis Trépanier
A new project begins. The CGQ, with generous support from the Canada Council for Arts, is commissioning 12 composers to each write a prelude and fugue for guitar quartet. In what is clearly theft of Bach’s Well-Tempered Klavier and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, each composer was assigned a month of the year and one of the twelve semi-tones as a tonal center, and asked to draw inspiration from on the one hand a childhood memory related to their month and on the other, notions of climate change, climate education, justice, or efforts made in this field. The juxtaposition of these two seemingly unconnected elements is meant to reflect the idea of wanting future generations to experience happy childhood moments of their own while feeling concern about the uncertainty ahead. From this would come motivation to take action.