Nadia Labrie - Tribute to Claude Bolling. Friday, March 6 at 8 p.m. in Paris.

Since 1998, Nadia Labrie has pursued a career as a soloist with orchestras, in chamber music, and as a duo with Similia (flute and guitar), with whom she won the Félix Award for Instrumental Album of the Year in 2004 (ADISQ). After 10 albums and several international tours in over 20 countries, Nadia continues her artistic endeavor to promote and showcase the flute. She now presents a tribute to Claude Bolling, the renowned jazz pianist, conductor, composer, and arranger, a disciple of the great Duke Ellington.

The show will be presented at the legendary Cortot hall in Paris.

ABOUT THE SALLE CORTOT

Created in 1926 by the architect Auguste Perret, a few years after the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Salle Cortot has been hosting the biggest names in classical music in its exceptional acoustic setting for almost 100 years.

Commissioned at the initiative of the great pianist Alfred Cortot for the École Normale de Musique de Paris, its unique acoustics in Europe made it one of the home venues for Pablo Casals, Jacques Thibaud, Mstislav Rostropovich, and many others.

Its raw reinforced concrete structure covered in gilded bronze and its walls clad in okoumé wood lend it a refined and warm modernism, as if one were entering the heart of a musical instrument. Its stalls surround the stage and its musicians, in the spirit of ancient theaters.

''Auguste Perret told us: I will make you a room that sounds like a violin. He was right, but it turns out—and this exceeds our expectations—that it's a Stradivarius.''