Mozart string quintets The two quintets on this sublime double bill were Yukari Cousineau, violin written in very close succession, in April and May 1787. Yukari Cousineau is the concertmaster of the Orchestre Their proximity has perpetually elicited reflection Métropolitain, under the direction of Yannick and discussion, chiefly with regard to their contrast- Nézet-Séguin. ing natures. K. 515 in C major is sunny, bountiful and A member of this orchestra since 1998, she began as optimistic, whereas K. 516 in G minor is predominantly assistant concertmaster and then served as associate dark, tragic and despairing. With Elvira Misbakhova, principal viola. She is also currently a member of the Chloé Dominguez, Marc Djokic, Yukari Cousineau and Magellan Ensemble (with Olivier Thouin, Yegor Dyachkov Cynthia Blanchon. and Jean Saulnier) and the Ensemble Jean Cousineau, which was founded by her father, Jean Cousineau, who Artists also established the École Les Petits Violons. Yukari Cousineau Yukari has been a guest soloist with several Montreal Violin ensembles, including the Orchestre de chambre Marc Djokic Appassionata, with whom she performed Locatelli’s Violin 12th concerto, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada. Elvira Misbakhova She is often invited to appear with the Orchestre Viola Métropolitain, where she has performed Berg’s Violin Cynthia Blanchon Concerto “To the Memory of an Angel.” Viola She has been invited to play at a number of festivals, Chloé Dominguez including Un Été à Bourges, where she gave solo violin Cello recitals. Yukari Cousineau has played in recital with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alvaro Pierri, Jean Saulnier and Program Julien LeBlanc. She has performed as part of a duo with pianist Mateo Creux for several years. String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515 I. Allegro Yukari is an invited professor at the Université de II. Menuetto. Allegretto Montréal. III. Andante IV. Allegro Marc Djokic, violin String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 Canadian violinist Marc Djokic serves as concertmaster I. Allegro of the Orchestre classique de Montreal. Among other II. Menuetto. Allegretto accolades, he has garnered the 2020 East Coast Music III. Adagio ma non troppo Awards Recording of the Year award, the 2017-2018 IV. Adagio - Allegro Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer, an Opus Award and also won the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument PRESENTED BY Bank Competition. His debut album, Solo Seven, earned him rave reviews upon its release in 2018. Djokic recent- ly completed tours of Switzerland, Italy and France. A Halifax native, Marc first studied violin with his father, violinist Philippe Djokic, one of Canada’s great soloists and a pupil of the master Ivan Galamian. Marc continued his studies under David Russell, Donald Weilerstein and Jaime Laredo. From BC Contact to Jeunesses Musicales and Debut Atlantic, Marc has toured throughout Canada several times as an accomplished chamber musician. As a solo- ist, Marc Djokic has performed with many prestigious orchestras including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Orchestre Cynthia Blanchon, viola symphonique de Québec. Montreal-based violist Cynthia Blanchon was born in Elvira Misbakhova, viola 1994. An active chamber musician, she has collaborat- ed with Kevin Lin, Scott St. John, Rainer Küchl and the Elvira Misbakhova received her Ph.D. in Music Talich Quartet and has just recorded her first CD as a Performance from the Université de Montréal in 2005. member of the Agora Quartet. She also performed as She was the recipient of a FRQSC award, as well as part of the prestigious Colburn Chamber Music Society the faculty’s prestigious FESP bursary of excellence. program and the UdeM@ BonPasteur series. Ms. Misbakhova began her violin training in her native Tatarstan, Russia at the age of seven. She then attended Currently the principal viola of the Agora Orchestra, the Kazan State Conservatory, where she switched to she also regularly performs with the OSM. She com- viola and started working as assistant principal violist pleted her doctorate under the supervision of Jutta for the La Primavera Chamber Orchestra. In 1999, she Puchhammer and also studied at the Colburn School in arrived in Canada to study with Eleonora Turovsky, be- Los Angeles and at the CNSMD in Lyon. This summer, coming principle violist for the Orchestre Symphonique she will be performing at the Entre Vents Et Marais de l’Université de Montréal. After winning the orches- festival in France and will also tour Europe with the tra’s prestigious concerto competition, she was invited VoxPopuli quartet. to perform as a soloist. She continued to acquire or- Chloé Dominguez, cello chestral experience, performing as principal violist for ensembles such as the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra An exceptionally versatile cellist and passionate cham- in Japan, the Bachakademie Symphony Orchestra ber musician, Chloé Dominguez is a regular participant in Germany and the Orchestre de la Francophonie at numerous international festivals. She has recorded in Quebec. She has performed as a soloist with the on the Atma, Oxingale Records and Espace 21 labels. Orchestre Metropolitain, Orchestre symphonique Solo cellist with the Orchestre Classique de Montréal de Drummondville, I Musici de Montréal Chamber and the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+), Orchestra and Orchestre Interculturel de Montreal, with she is also an ardent performer of contemporary music whom she premiered Boris Pigovat’s Holocaust Requiem. and, as soloist, has premiered a number of new works. She has returned to Russia numerous times, per- Chloé Dominguez’s musical qualities have been re- forming with La Primavera Orchestra and the Tatarstan warded with numerous awards and distinctions. In National Symphony Orchestra, and continues to travel 2009, she was the winner of the Canada Council for the to give masterclasses and workshops. In 2019, Elvira Arts’ Musical Instrument Bank Competition and the Misbakhova recorded an album under the renowned Schulich School of Music’s Golden Violin award. Chandos Records label, which garnered high critical acclaim from such magazines as The Strad, Gramophon, Chloé Dominguez holds a doctorate from McGill The MusicWeb and others. University, where she currently teaches chamber music. She also teaches at the Université du Québec Elvira Misbakhova is currently principal violist of the à Montréal and at the Académie internationale du Orchestre Metropolitain and the assistant principal Domaine Forget. violist in both the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois- Rivieres and the Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil. Chloé Dominguez plays a 1745 Lorenzo Carcassi cello. She is also principal violist of the “Nouvelle Generation” chamber orchestra. Under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Orchestre Métropolitain records on the Deutsche Grammophon and Atma classical labels. In 2000 Misbakhova discovered her talent for impro- visation, as well as a great passion for klezmer music. As a result of her experiences in this musical genre, she joined the renowned Canadian group Kleztory, with whom she has performed, among others, for the Orchestre Metropolitain, the Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Quebec symphony orchestras, Brussels Chamber Music Orchestra, Orchestre classique de Montréal and Les Violons du Roy. She is currently working on new chamber music projects. Elvira Misbakhova plays on an 1840-50 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume viola with a Louis Bazin bow, generously loaned by the Canimex Foundation..