The Festival classique des Hautes-Laurentides offers an exciting program for its 12th edition, presented from June 19 to August 21, 2010, in 10 municipalities in the Upper Laurentians. Under the artistic direction of flute player André-Gilles Duchemin, the Festival classique des Hautes-Laurentides is an invitation to discover the universe of classical music as well as the magnificent region of the Upper Laurentians, from Saint-Faustin-Lac-Carré to Ferme-Neuve, including Mont-Tremblant, Nominingue and Mont-Laurier. And this year, the Festival is proud to announce the participation of internationally acclaimed violinist, Alexandre Da Costa as its spokesperson.

The main goal of Festival classique des Hautes-Laurentides is to promote classical music as we know it in the Western world, but also as it is played in the rest of the world in countries such as China, India and Japan. Following that vision, the Festival will showcase, again this year, various international musicians coming from England, Italy, Japan, Vietnam, the United States and Canada.

A brief history
Québec actor and singer Claude Gauthier initiated the first edition of the Festival in 1998, under the name of Concerfs du Lac. Since then, the Festival classique des Hautes-Laurentides has been presented every summer for the last 12 years by Carrefour Bois-Chantants, a non-profit organization located in Lac-du-Cerf, in the Upper-Laurentians. The Festival classique des Hautes-Laurentides, which has been under the artistic direction of flute player André-Gilles Duchemin since 2000, was created to feature the beauty of classical music and the splendour of the majestic territory of the Upper Laurentians, blessed as it is with a pristine landscape of endless forests and over 5,000 lakes.