Mission: musical training and performance
The Conservatoire de musique de la Montérégie, an organization dedicated to the musical training and performance of the next generation of musicians, was created in 2003.
Training
The training component is held at the Saint-Lambert Community Centre (600 Oak Avenue) from September to June, and is aimed primarily at the Lambert clientele (81%). Participants also come from other cities on the South Shore and Greater Montreal. The Conservatoire offers courses for all instruments, as well as for several ensembles, including the Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de la Montérégie (OSCM).
Performance
Public performance allows musicians to perform at several events in the City of Saint-Lambert in which they participate annually: Rendez-vous cuturels, Saint-Lambert en fête, Classica Festival, Christmas concerts in collaboration with the Jardins intérieurs retirement home and the Saint-Lambert Economic Development Corporation. With its annual concerts, some of which take place in the churches of Saint-Lambert, the Conservatoire de musique de la Montérégie thus helps to promote its cultural heritage. It also helps promote the City of Saint-Lambert by presenting concerts in large venues, such Salle Claude-Champagne and the Maison Symphonique at Place des Arts.
About the founder
Marie-Anne Rozankovic, violinist by training, founded the Conservatoire de musique in Saint-Lambert in 2003. She studied at the Vincent-d'Indy School of Music, at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montreal as well as at McGill University and Montreal.
Marie-Anne has been teaching the violin for over thirty years and directs string and chamber music ensembles at the Conservatoire de la Montérégie and the Vincent-d'Indy Music School. She is active on the music scene with several ensembles such as the Orchester de Chambre de la Montérégie (OCM), the Chamber Players of Greater Montreal and the Orchestre symphonique du Grand Montréal (OSGM), particularly in venues such as the Maison Symphonique, Salle Claude-Champagne, Salle Marie-Stéphane, at the Outremont Theater and in historic places in Montérégie and Greater Montreal. Marie-Anne also toured Canada, the United States, France and Spain from the 1990s until 2017. She regularly produces concerts and events for which she is artistic director.
Her most recent performance in the “Musica Femina” production was recorded on December 12, 2020 at the Church of Saint-Lambert, available on webcast. This concert was reprised at Magdalene Islands on August 31st, 2021.
Marie-Anne regularly collaborates with artists from the local scene. As a chamber musician, she has performed several times, including the most recent “Musica Femina” recorded in 2020 and revived in 2021 in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, as well as the Four Seasons recomposed by Max Richter in 2022.
Marie-Anne sat on the Saint-Lambert cultural committee from 2017 to 2022 as a performing arts representative.