Centre d'action Artistique Inc.
Sackville Festival of Early Music
21th Anniversary
September 24 to 28, 2025
Programme
Sackville is located on the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People who are the historic inhabitants, custodians, and dwellers on the land.
Board of Directors
Alexander Dobson, President
Helen Tucker, Secretary
Bill Costin, Treasurer
Melissa Grey, Director
Joanna Manning, Director, Editing
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Leadership
Shawn Bostick, General Manager
Jimin Dobson, Artistic Director
Jan Zverev, Festival Intern​​​​
PO Box 6375 , Sackville, NB, E4L 1G6
(506) 878 3786
Instagram: @sfearlym
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Ensemble SFEM
le Matin, le Midi, le Soir
Saturday, September 27, 2025 7:30pm
Ensemble SFEM
Jimin Shin Dobson – baroque violin | violon baroque
Karim Nasr – flute/oboe/bassoon | flute/hautbois/basson
Felix Deák – viola da gamba | viole de gambe
Elizaveta Miller – harpsichord | clavecin
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Programme
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le Matin;
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Le Rossignol-en-amour..........................................François Couperin (1668-1733
Frère Jacques................................................Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Symphonies pour un reposoir, H.515......... ..Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Premier et deuxième air en rondeau pour les Bergers
de Zaïs, Acte IV, Scène 4....................................................Jean-Philippe Rameau
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le Midi;
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Sonata no 1 in d minor........................Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Premier ballet de village Op. 52................Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
Les délices de la solitude, Op. 20 No. 4.........................Michel Corrette (1707-1795)
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le Soir;
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Chaconne pour viole seule......................................Le Sieur Demachy (1686-1692)
Scéne Funebre/Tristes Après de Castor et Pollux..................Jean-Philippe Rameau
"Duo Choisis des Fragments de Mr. de Lully" 1728
(Très gracieusement, Menuet, Gigue, Chaconne.......Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Les Caractères de la Danse.......................................Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747)
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Chœur Louisbourg
MADRIGAUX ITALIENS DE LA RENAISSANCE
Sunday, September 28, 2025 2:00pm
Members of the Chœur Louisbourg
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Artistic Director: Monique Richard
General Manager: Danièle Jones
Pianist collaborator: Michèle Leblanc
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SOPRANOS (*) Soloists
Marie-Pier Arseneau*, Sop. I
Maryse Doiron Basque*, Sop. I
Marie-Ange Perry*, Sop. I
Janie Losier, Sop. II
Mélanie Vienneau, Sop. II
ALTOS
Bernice Losier, Alto I
Claudette Magee, Alto I
Aurélie Cormier*, Alto II
Sophia Daigle, Alto II
TENORS
Carlo Cormier*, Ténor I
Pierre Lavoie*, Ténor I
Donald Mallet, Ténor II
Valmond Bourque, Ténor II
Jason Noble, Ténor II
BASSES
Jaël Aucoin, Basse I
Paul Pitre, Basse I
Pierre McGraw, Basse II
Luke MacLean*, Basse II
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Gioavanni Gastoldi (1550-1609)
Extraits des Balletti à Cinque Voici (SSATB)
Amor vittorioso
Gloria d’Amore
Il Premiato
Claudio Monteverdi (1550-1609)
Vago augelletto (SSATTTB)
Ardo, avvampo (SSAATTBB)
Zefiro torna, e'l bel tempo rimena (SSATB)
Pièces du Scherzi musicali (1607)
I bei legami (SSA)
Lidia, spina del mio core (TTB)
Amarilli onde m'assale (SSB)
O rosseta (SSB)
Damigella tutta bella (SATB)
Giovanni Dominico da Nola (1510-1592)
Chi la gagliarda (TTB)
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Josquin Des Prez (1440-1521)
El Grillo (SATB)
Orlando di Lasso(1532-1594)
Matona, mia cara (SATB)
Chi chi li chi (SATB)
Adrian Willaert(1490-1562)
Madonna mia fame bon offerta (SATB)
Vecchie letrose (villanella)
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Note from the director
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“I’m truly delighted to be performing once again with the Chœur Louisbourg at the
Sackville Festival of Early Music. The choir will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in
2026, and it feels wonderful to return to the very place where its journey began 19 years ago. For eight of those years, the choir served as the festival’s appointed chamber choir, creating deep artistic bonds and lasting friendships. It is therefore always a joy to reconnect with the SFEM, a festival that remains such an important part of the choir’s history and spirit.”
The Italian Renaissance program features 17 madrigals and frottolas from 6 different
composers, but mostly by Monteverdi (1567-1633).
They are true musical treasures that combine poetry and music, where through the
brilliance of the voices, love becomes music. One then hears the poets’ beating hearts: their sighs of love, their tears of sorrow, their bursts of joy, which touch on these great universal themes: love, joy, sorrow, and nature.
To grasp all the subtleties of these narratives, sometimes risqué and full of “double
entendre”, some choristers will present the main themes of the concert in an original
and dramatic. In addition, you will hear a variety of period instruments, including violins, the dulcian, the harpsichord, the viola da gamba, and different percussion instruments that give each piece its own unique color.
In the Renaissance, madrigals were sung in palaces and gardens, for the enjoyment of friends. Since a madrigal is about experiencing the intimacy and sensuality of Renaissance Italy, come and do as they once did, and hear the Chœur Louisbourg, alongside wonderful instrumentalists, for your enjoyment.
We would like to acknowledge that Mount Allison University is located within the traditional territory of Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq. Our relationship and our privilege to live on this territory was agreed upon in the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1725 to 1752. Because of this treaty relationship, it is to be acknowledged that we are all Treaty People and have a responsibility to respect this territory.