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practice and performance of the performing arts represents for
me a personal and collective necessity, an extremely inspiring
perspective that puts us in touch with our emotions, feelings
and thoughts. Hence it is an essentially human experience. As an
actor, I have the privilege of transmitting to audiences the
thoughts of writers whose texts often leave indelible
impressions on us.
As a fervent music lover, I have the great pleasure of sharing
with Espace Musique listeners my love for Johann Sebastian Bach
each Saturday at noon, when broadcasts devoted to his music are
held. I was fifteen when I discovered Bach at a Jeunesses
Musicales summer camp at the Orford Arts Centre. His music has
always moved me, even changed me; through music I have come to
terms with myself and with the world around me. And so it is
that my love of music also brings me the honor to be
spokesperson this year for the Montreal International Musical
Competition.
In this capacity, I wish to all the young singers who have come
from around the world, as well as to those in the audience who
derive pleasure from making discoveries in the concert hall or
on the Internet, the great happiness and joy music brings us
when performed with skill and love.
And finally, bravo and thank you to Jeunesses Musicales of
Canada for bringing us this prestigious annual competition.
I wish you all a wonderful Voice “2007”!
Yves Jacques
Actor
Biographical notes
YVES JACQUES’s extraordinary career
has taken him from Quebec City, where he was born, to
Montreal, then on to Paris where he now works both in
theater and film. His talent was unquestionably
recognized in Le déclin de l’empire américain (Denys
Arcand), and his reputation continued to grow with films
and stage productions in France and Quebec. Among the
films in which he has been involved are Les invasions
barbares (Denys Arcand) and La petite Lily (Claude
Miller). In addition he was in Un homme et son péché
(Charles Binamé), in the historical drama Napoléon (Yves
Simoneau) and La veuve de St-Pierre (Patrice Leconte).
He has been on world tours in both French and English
versions of Robert Lepage’s plays La Face cachée de la
lune and Le Project Andersen. On the small screen, he
has recently been in the Radio-Canada series René
Lévesque and L’état de grâce from France 2. |
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