A Thoroughly Joyful FIMAV The 41st FIMAV, 12-18 May 2025, was of course a reduced edition, but despite (and in some ways because) of this fact, the festival was a unique and joyful event. Key to this joyful sentiment was the Saturday 17 May concert, Fire! Orchestra CBA Victoriaville, featuring 4 European musicians collaborating with … A Thoroughly Joyful FIMAV
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING [Carré noir] – Performance of Graphic Scores by MMV2005 TUESDAY 13 MAY | 1 PM– FREE – Atoll Art Actuel [Carré noir] is an interdisciplinary outreach activity by Claude G. Olivier and Pierre-Luc Simon (MIELA). In advance of the Festival de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, fine arts studens of Collège Clarétain have been … Graphic Scores
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING Instruments of Temperament FRIDAY 16 MAY | 3:30-7:30 PM– FREE ADMISSION –Atoll Art Actuel (entrance from the bicycle path) As part of the final project of the Connected Objects 2 course, 3rd-year students in the Computer Science Techniques college program at CÉGEP de Victoriaville invite you to see and interact with their musical … Instruments of Temperament
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING MATS GUSTAFSSON « 1+1+1+1 » FRIDAY 16 MAY | 9 PM– FREE, OPEN TO ALL –CARRÉ 150 (CABARET GUY-AUBERT) Mats’s concept is simple: an audience member is led into the Cabaret while, from backstage, Mats leads a fellow musician to the same spot. That one musician proceeds to play one minute of music … MATS GUSTAFSSON « 1+1+1+1 »
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING MEET FIMAV’S DIRECTOR, SCOTT THOMSON, PLUS INFORMAL CONCERT THURSDAY 15 MAY | 7 PM– FREE –LEWIS CAFÉ Meet Scott Thomson, FIMAV’s new Artistic Director, in a conversation moderated by festival collaborator, Ariane Plante. To be followed by two sets of improvised music: • Jean Derome (flute, saxes, objects) & Joshua Zubot (violin) … MEET FIMAV’S DIRECTOR, SCOTT THOMSON, PLUS INFORMAL CONCERT
