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Sixtrum's musicians are happy to announce that percussionist Julien Compagne will join the ensemble starting this upcoming season. He will succeed to Sandra Joseph who had announced her leaving the group next september. Julien Compagne was selected by all of Sixtrum's percussionists, assisted by the group's stage director, Michel G. Barette, after a process of applications review and auditions that spanned over several weeks.

La Scena Musicale, in its March 2012 edition, devotes its cover and an article by Cristal Chan to Sixtrum.

Read on at http://www.scena.org/index-en.asp

Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble is seeking a percussionist to become a regular member of the ensemble.

Sixtrum will tour Western Canada, in Calgary, Edmonton and Victoria, from January 26 to February 1st

Sixtrum is looking for a full time stagiaire to coolaborate to its management and development efforts. The person hired will work in relation to different functions in the organization: management, finance, artistic planning and development. This internship is pending approval of a grant by the Conseil des arts de Montréal, under its "Support for first work experiences in arts-related positions" program.

Internsip period :

January 9 to July 6 2012.

The Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble has a new collaborator. During the upcoming year, Marie-Pier Leduc will be writing on Sixtrum’s blog,  As such, she will act as commentator of internal activities of the ensemble and as witness of the thoughts that accompany its actions.

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2011-2012 Season

or you would like to see some of it again?

Videos containing excertps from each of the works performed last January 19 during Lights ! are now vailable on line!

Check thos out:

The Jeune Chambre de commerce de Montréal (JCCM) and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) have announced on June 6 the attribution of the 2010-2011 Arrimages Prize to the Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble and the Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental.

You can now listen to the live reconrding by CBC of  « Un train pour l’enfer » presented last Febriary 26 during the MNM Festival, in collaboration with the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.

The Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble, in residence at the University of Montreal, presents « Ligeti – father to son», two genarations, two visions of percussion. The concert will be held Wednesday April 13 at 8 pm at the salle Claude-Champagne at the University of Montreal.

The Sixtrum percussion Ensemble will conclude this month a series of concerts started last fall under the Conseil des arts de Montréal en tournée program.

Thus, Pléïades - the experience of contemporary percussion will be performed next Saturday March 19 at 8 PM at the Maison de la culture Ahuntsic, and Saturday March 26 at 8 PM at Théâtre Outremont in Montreal.

Sixtrum will be in the spotlight more than once during the 5th édition of the Montreal/New Music International Festival.

Imagine a very large screen overlooking six musicians standing in a shaded area, each equiped with an electronic percussion interface, drum-pad or mallet-kat. Gripping images fly out, accompanied by strongly shaped electronic sounds, controled in their synchronicity by virtuoso performers.

The Videomusic concert presented next January 19 has been chosen as one of the 6 events that will be presented in the 2010-2011 season of the Arrimages program.

The members of the jury for the famous TROMP Percussion Competition has selected Sandra Josepeh, new Sixtrum member, as one of the 30 percussionists from all over the world out of 93 submissions..  Sandra will be the only canadian to take part of this important event taht will be help next November 13 to 30 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

The Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble just ended a full week of recordings for four projects: 2 cds and two videos.

Starting last June 16 in Philip Hornsey's studio, Sixtum's members first started recording La Grande Tortue, a children's show coproduced with Les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada.  The CD, which will include a book, should come out sometime next fall. 

Percussionist and Sixtrum member Joaõ Catalaõ will present, next June 8, his final doctoral recital at the Faculty of Music of University of Montreal. On the program, works by on Brazilian  and four Quebec composers, including three premieres.