ATMA artist and conductor Michel Brousseau makes his Carnegie Hall debut on June 12, 2010 with Messe solennelle de saint Remi, a work by the 19th-century French composer Théodore Dubois. After almost a century of neglect, this mass composed in 1900 was brought to light again with ATMA’s world premiere recording released in April 2010 [ACD 2 2632].

For his debut at the legendary concert venue, Brousseau leads the massed voices of his four choirs from Ontario and Québec: the New World Philharmonic Choir, Les Chanteurs de Sainte-Thérèse, the Choeur Tremblant and the Ottawa Classical Choir. They are joined by the New England Symphonic Ensemble and soloists Maria Knapik, soprano, and Marc Boucher, baritone, who first re-discovered the work in the Dubois family’s chest of treasures in France in 2005.

Michel Brousseau is conductor and Artistic Director of the New World Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the Ottawa Classical Choir, Les Chanteurs de Sainte-Thérèse Choir, and the Tremblant Choir. He was finalist of the 2005 International Luigi Mancinelli Opera Conducting competition in Italy. In 2006, Brousseau was awarded the Grand Prize for Regional Artistic Creation by the Quebec Council for the Arts.

Francis Dubois, the great-grandson of composer Théodore Dubois remarked, “Allow me to say how grateful I am to Michel Brousseau, the orchestra, the soloists, the choristers and to all our enthusiastic musical friends in Québec. These remarkable and committed musicians have contributed so much to the rediscovery of this inexplicably forgotten music.”

Michel Brousseau and Francis Dubois at the Dubois CD launch 

Michel Brousseau and Maria Knapik at the Dubois CD launch