Music is everywhere!
Noise
Partout is a Montreal-based classical music trio that explores innovative
ways of storytelling through sound. Soprano Ellen Wieser, pianist Carol-Anne
Fraser and cellist Jean-Christophe Lizotte, maintain active performance
schedules throughout Canada and abroad and collaborate regularly in a variety
of chamber music settings. The group recently completed a creative residency at
the Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto in Montreal, Canada and has previously
performed recitals at Montreal’s Souvlaki Summer Concert Series, featuring Luna
Pearl Woolf’s Rumi: Quatrains of Love and their own arrangements of a
variety of French art songs. Recipients of an explore and create grant from the
Canada Council for the Arts, Noise Partout is currently completing a collaboration
with three of Canada’s most exciting composers and two gifted writers to create
new works for soprano, cello and piano trio.
Noise Partout was founded and currently operates on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. It is our privilege to pursue this dialogue amongst nations through music creation and performance. Noise Partout acknowledges that we are located on a land that has been the site of human creativity and story-telling for thousands of years, and we are thankful to be able to create, collaborate, play, and work here.
Noise Partout was founded and currently operates on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. It is our privilege to pursue this dialogue amongst nations through music creation and performance. Noise Partout acknowledges that we are located on a land that has been the site of human creativity and story-telling for thousands of years, and we are thankful to be able to create, collaborate, play, and work here.
Meet the Artists
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Soprano Ellen Wieser grew up and began her music studies in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the recipient of the emerging artist award at the 2019 Récital-Concours International de mélodies francaises in St. Lambert, Quebec. Recent career highlights have included her Quebec Symphony Orchestra debut under the baton of Jacques Lacombe (Brahms Ein deutches Requiem), solo appearances at the Jeonju International Sori Festival and with the Korea Union Orchestra in South Korea, Steve Reich’s Tehillim with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and creation of the role of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg (Scalia-Ginsburg, world premiere) at the Castleton Festival in Virginia. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program.
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Cellist Jean-Christophe Lizotte
is a founding member of the chamber music collective Warhol Dervish and is
regularly invited to collaborate with dozens of Québec ensembles, notably I
Musici de Montréal, Ensemble Caprice, Bradyworks, SMCQ (Société de musique
contemporaine du Québec), and Ensemble SuperMusique. He has toured
internationally with diverse artists including La La La Human Steps, the Ottawa
Bach Choir, Ensemble Caprice, Chris de Burgh, and Corneille, and is featured as
solo continuo player on the Juno Award-winning album Handel: Dixit Dominus
with the Ottawa Bach Choir and Ensemble Caprice.
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Alberta-born pianist Carol-Anne
Fraser holds a doctorate from the Université de Montréal in solo piano and
an Artist Diploma from McGill University in collaborative piano. She has worked
with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, Opera Saratoga, Musique 3 Femmes, Calgary
Opera, Tapestry Opera, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and Opéra de Montréal. Carol-Anne’s
thesis for her doctorate entitled Affekt in Musical Performance studied
the effect of music on human emotions. Her passion for music education has led
her to create an online “Emotions in Music” workshop for students in
collaboration with Opéra de Montréal and the Connected North education program.
As a fierce advocate for community involvement, Carol-Anne is inspired to
create connections between artists and the public. Her work as a civic impact
artist includes music education/creation/performance with Espace Transition, a
mental health program for youth at St. Justine Hospital (Montreal).
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