Victoriaville, 14 December 2023 - We will celebrate the 40th edition of FIMAV, 13-19 May, 2024. To highlight four decades celebrating Musique Actuelle and avant-garde arts, graphic designer Isabelle Beaumier has been inspired by aerial movement of floating bubbles. To Isabelle, this image evokes editions past and future, which do not follow a straight line and which are all distinct.
The FIMAV team wishes you a Happy New Year 2024. We will return on 7 February to unveil the 40th edition line-up of concerts. Stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 – The Board of Directors of Productions Plateforme Inc., the organization overseeing the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV), is announcing the appointment of Scott Thomson as artistic director and co-general manager of FIMAV. He is taking over from Michel Levasseur, FIMAV’s general manager and artistic director since the first edition in 1983.
After a lengthy recruitment process, the board has decided to place its trust in the man who has been at the helm of the Guelph Jazz Festival since 2017. Scott Thomson is a trombonist, composer, and producer. Among other things, he founded the performance hall Somewhere There in Toronto. Scott Thomson arrives in Victoriaville with a strong motivation to perpetuate the noble mission of Productions Plateforme Inc. which, through the presentation of FIMAV, is to disseminate and promote avant-garde arts. Scott has great respect for the members of the FIMAV team, who have opened doors to present music and artistic projects that are off the beaten track. He intends to continue this mission by respecting the event’s unique formula while adding his own twist to it: “I am excited and honoured to be named the new Artistic and co-General Director of FIMAV, a festival where I first performed in 2008 and have been participating frequently and enthusiastically ever since. In my role, I will strive both to preserve the special character the festival has developed and maintained over four decades and to imprint it gradually with my own artistic signature.”
Scott Thomson will step down from his role as artistic and general director of the Guelph Jazz Festival after the 30th edition, which runs from September 14 to 17, 2023. His adventure with the FIMAV team will then begin alongside Michel Levasseur, who will be in charge of the handover. Artists wishing to submit a concert project for the 40th edition of FIMAV (May 16-19, 2024) can find out how on the “Call for submissions” page. Stay tuned for more news about Productions Plateforme Inc and FIMAV, as we enter a new era…
Victoriaville, June 21, 2023 – They talked about the 39th FIMAV 2023 in La Presse, Le Devoir, Surgery Radio, CKRL 89.1, Radio-Canada Mauricie Centre-du-Québec, CKUT 90.3, Télévision Communautaire des Bois-Francs, Plaque Tournante, Mon Victo, Le Canal Auditif, La Nouvelle Union, DownBeat Magazine, Indie Dependance, Tourisme Victoriaville et sa région, Le Quotidien, PAN M 360, Avant Music News, Exclaim! Magazine, All About Jazz, MusicWorks Magazine, Can this even be called music, The New York City Jazz Record, ESPACE revue art actuel, Panorama Cinéma... To consult our Press Review, click here!
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