This second Canadian tour was essentially conceived as a means of communication. While Quasar devotes much of its energy to the creation of new works, it also considers the concert interpretation of recent works to be of prime importance.This tour also offered Quasar important meeting opportunities with various Canadian musicians in each visited city.

The tour has been supported by the Canada Council for the arts.

University of Victoria, P.T. Young Recital Hall
March 29 2006, 8 pm
A production of Aventa Ensemble

University of Calgary, Boris Roubakine Hall
March 2006, 8 pm

Dalhousie University, Halifax
April 4 2006, 7h30 pm
Sax Face Off: 4+4 = Octet (Quasar et Halifax Sax)
A production of Upstream Music Association

Avril 3
Workshop
Improvisation/Jean-Marc Bouchard : 12 h 30 pm
Jazz/André Leroux, 4 h 30 pm
Présented by Dalhousie Université, Upstream Music Association and JazzEast.

Memorial University, St.John's
April 6 2006, 8 pm
A production of Sound Symposium

April 7, 9 h30 am: workshop

Tour program :
Jean-François Laporte, Procession
Klas Torstensson, Licks & Brains I
Wolf Edwards, Iskra
Michel Frigon, Geyser Ghetto
Jérôme Blais : Conductus I (Quasar and Halifax Sax)
Jean-Marc Bouchard : In and out (Quasar and Halifax Sax)
Sofia Gubaidulina, In Etwartung (Quasar and Aventa Ensemble, dir. Bill Lindwood)
Jose Évangelista, Saxoctet (Quasar and saxophonists of Univ. of Calgary)
Michael Oesterle, Anytime (Quasar and 4 percussionists from St.John's)