Photo: Brenden Friesen
Music is Everywhere!
Noise Partout is a Montreal-based chamber music ensemble that seeks innovative ways to bring stories of relevance to new audiences, through classical music. Committed to social and environmental advocacy, to community engagement, and to multidisciplinary creation and collaboration, Noise Partout has been carving out its unique place in the Montreal music scene since 2020.
The Noise Partout trio consists of founding members Ellen Wieser (soprano) and Jean-Christophe Lizotte (cello), with Rebecca Klassen-Wiebe (piano), who joined the ensemble 2025-26 season. All three artists maintain active performance schedules throughout Canada and abroad and collaborate regularly in a variety of chamber music settings. 2025-26 season highlights for the ensemble include a series of community cultural mediation outings in collaboration with Montreal’s Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie borough, the creation of the Nightbird Lullaby music video with the support of the Schevchenko Foundation, and the Nightbird Lullaby Benefit for Ukraine concert in Montreal, a co-production with Le 9e and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation. Additional recent performance highlights have included recitals in Ormstown, Quebec, and at Montreal’s Sans-Souvlaki Summer Concert Series, as well as tours with La SAMS (Société des arts en milieu de la santé), and with Ensemble ArtVocal’s Mini-Concerts Santé.
Noise Partout has previously received funding and in-kind support from The Schevchenko Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, Le 9e Productions, and Montreal’s network of Maisons de la culture (cultural hubs in the boroughs of Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie and Janine-Sutto). The trio has commissioned new works from Massimo Guida and Nathalie Boisvert (La dernière nuit, 2025), filmmakers Oleksandr Shylov and Anna Shylova-Kolomiets (Nightbird Lullaby video, 2025), illustrator Chloé Baillargeon (La maison qui chant/The Singing House colouring page, 2025), Airat Ichmouratov and Bertrand Laverdure (Nocturne, 2023), Anna Pidgorna and Maria Reva (Nightbird Lullaby, 2023), and Parisa Sabet (Goodnight Moon, 2023). In addition to working closely with creators throughout Canada, the trio has created several original arrangements of pre-existing art and folk songs. By combining brand-new works with existing soprano, cello and piano repertoire, and fresh new arrangements of beloved classics, Noise Partout’s musical programs compel and transport audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
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.
The Noise Partout trio consists of founding members Ellen Wieser (soprano) and Jean-Christophe Lizotte (cello), with Rebecca Klassen-Wiebe (piano), who joined the ensemble 2025-26 season. All three artists maintain active performance schedules throughout Canada and abroad and collaborate regularly in a variety of chamber music settings. 2025-26 season highlights for the ensemble include a series of community cultural mediation outings in collaboration with Montreal’s Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie borough, the creation of the Nightbird Lullaby music video with the support of the Schevchenko Foundation, and the Nightbird Lullaby Benefit for Ukraine concert in Montreal, a co-production with Le 9e and the Canada-Ukraine Foundation. Additional recent performance highlights have included recitals in Ormstown, Quebec, and at Montreal’s Sans-Souvlaki Summer Concert Series, as well as tours with La SAMS (Société des arts en milieu de la santé), and with Ensemble ArtVocal’s Mini-Concerts Santé.
Noise Partout has previously received funding and in-kind support from The Schevchenko Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, Le 9e Productions, and Montreal’s network of Maisons de la culture (cultural hubs in the boroughs of Rosemont – La Petite-Patrie and Janine-Sutto). The trio has commissioned new works from Massimo Guida and Nathalie Boisvert (La dernière nuit, 2025), filmmakers Oleksandr Shylov and Anna Shylova-Kolomiets (Nightbird Lullaby video, 2025), illustrator Chloé Baillargeon (La maison qui chant/The Singing House colouring page, 2025), Airat Ichmouratov and Bertrand Laverdure (Nocturne, 2023), Anna Pidgorna and Maria Reva (Nightbird Lullaby, 2023), and Parisa Sabet (Goodnight Moon, 2023). In addition to working closely with creators throughout Canada, the trio has created several original arrangements of pre-existing art and folk songs. By combining brand-new works with existing soprano, cello and piano repertoire, and fresh new arrangements of beloved classics, Noise Partout’s musical programs compel and transport audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
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 has performed on opera, concert and recital stages throughout Canada and the United States, and in South Korea and Japan. Regularly called upon to interpret and create contemporary operatic roles, her commanding stage presence has been described as “tremendous”, “especially compelling”, and “vibrant”. Career highlights have included Brahms’ Ein deutches Requiem with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jacques Lacombe, 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, as well as the role of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg (Scalia-Ginsburg, world premiere) at the Castleton Festival in Virginia. During more recent seasons, Ellen created the role of Elle in Christian Lapointe and Rosa Lind’s operatic adaptation of Hiroshima mon amour at Montreal’s Festival Transamérique (Chants Libres and Quatuor Bozzini), a performance described as “mesmerizing” in Opera News Magazine, and was a featured soloist with the Ottawa Bach Choir, at the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival in Winnipeg, and in the 2022 Tapestry Opera LibLab program and Opera Briefs production in Toronto. She also made waves by replacing the soprano soloist for Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano on 30 minutes’ notice. A graduate of the prestigious San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program, Ellen holds a Masters of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Manitoba, School of Music.
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Canadian cellist Jean-Christophe Lizotte is an eclectic musician with interests spanning from baroque to contemporary, improvisation, and rock. In Quebec, he has played with multiple symphony and chamber orchestras including I Musici de Montreal, and is a founding member of chamber music collective Warhol Dervish. Additional chamber music collaborations in Canada include Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble SuperMusique, SMCQ, and Bradyworks. Jean-Christophe has collaborated with world famous artists both on stage and in the studio, notably Patrick Watson, Arcade Fireʼs Richard Reed Parry, the Cirque du soleil, Chris de Burgh, Disturbed, and has toured extensively with music groups and dance companies worldwide, including Corneille and Edouard Lockʼs La La La Human Steps. Jean-Christophe is very active as a recording musician, with appearances on over 50 albums. He is featured as continuo solo cello for the Juno award-winning album Handel, Dixit Dominus; Bach & Schutz, Motets with the Ottawa Bach Choir and Ensemble Caprice. His playing can also be heard on a multitude of award winning film soundtracks including The Iron Claw, China Heavyweight, Corbo, and Imax 3d Flight of the Butterfly, and he has played multiple times live on the BBC radio, CBC radio / Radio-Canada, Seatle's KEXP, and Radio Campus Paris.
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As an artist in residence graduate from Opéra de Montréal, Rebecca Klassen-Wiebe has worked extensively within the core operatic repertoire serving as a répétiteur and coach for various main stage productions as well as collaborations with organisations such as Orchestre Metropolitain, Orchestre de l'Agora, Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville, Musique 3 Femmes, Jeunesses Musicales Canada, and Orchestre Classique de Montréal, among others. Equally at home on the recital stage, Rebecca has performed alongside emerging and internationally acclaimed artists for programs at Salle Bourgie, Toronto Summer Music Festival, Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur, and Montreal's own Café d'Art Vocal. She recently performed a concert with the acclaimed Musique 3 Femmes in Montreal. An active community member, Rebecca has collaborated with various Canadian community arts organizations and non-profits including La Gang à Rambrou (OdM), Co-Opéra (OdM), Espace Transition (OdM), Camp Père Lindsay, Winnipeg's Little Opera Company, Fondation LRDG, and Winnipeg Music Festival. She has been active in the Winnipeg choral scene as well as working with youth in Choral programs in the Pembina Trails School Division (Winnipeg). She has also actively been involved as a performing artist on the outreach series Parlons Opéra with Opéra de Montréal, designed to introduce new audiences to classical music in Montreal and beyond.
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