www.forestare.com

Welcome and meet Forestare. A novel music guitare(s) band offering new melody to your ears. Enjoy this trip in nature and in the culture of Quebec.

FORESTARE is composed of young classical guitarists with a calling to music and a commitment to the environment. The group’s keen of interest in the music of our is expressed through commissioned works arrangements, and collaborative projects with esteemed performing artists, such as Richard Desjardins, who have made a mark on Québec. By it’s very nature, the guitar is inextricably associated with wood. For this reason, the guitarists of FORESTARE view their instruments as nothing less than a noble building material. Wood forest and guitars from a single environmental continuum that strikes a chord with these musician: the sap of trees and the blood of artists beat together as a single heart breathing life into vast open spaces. Moreover, as the forest is to the tree, the ensemble is to the guitar: a communal place sheltering a common desire to realize innate potential. FORESTARE hopes to acknowledge the ensemble’s origins and roots by honnouring it’s one true source: the Tree. Founded in October 2002, FORESTARE was the intiative of a young guitarist. As soon as the idea had taken shape in his mind, Alexandre Éthier sought out Pascal Côté, a dynamic conductor, and a group of promising young guitarists. By choosing to perform outside of the instutitional milieu, FORESTARE is looking to creatively explore new musical spaces off the beaten path. FORESTARE hes already dazzled audiences in Québec and elsewhere with operformances at the Festival de Lanaudière, Spectrum de Montréal, Salle Perre-Mercure, Lion d’Or, Metropolis and Festival International de guitare de Nérac. The ensemble aims to expand the boundaries of the traditonnal repertoire for guitar and composers such as Brouwer and Reich with works by Québec composers. To date, FORESTARE has commissioned Fougères by Antoine Ouellette, Équus by François Gauthier and Chaman by Pascal Quoquochi Sasseville. “FORESTARE” The Latin word forestare, meaning “to create a forest,” has rich linguistic ancestry. A sense of “forest” is confirmed by the German cognate Forst, but the name also evokes the out-of-doors through roots going back to the vulgar Latin word Foris, or “outside.” To this day, Italians use the word foretiere to refer to a stranger – someone from the outside. In the Middle Ages, noblemen had peasant farmers removed from their lands to create hunting grounds. These croplands were allowed to grow wild and came to be known as foresta, which eventullay evolved into the word forest. And into the forest is exactly where FORESTARE hopes to take the listener: beyond the familiar towards new horizons to breathe in the splendours of a natural musical landscape

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