Montreal’s Ensemble Paramirabo will give a ticketed concert titled It Was Inside You All Along at the Banff Centre’s Rolston Recital Hall on Jan. 23, 2026 — a small‑room performance that brings a touring, award‑recognised contemporary ensemble and a mostly post‑/minimalist program to Banff’s winter season, offering locals a rare night of new‑music chamber work.
The Banff Centre lists the concert in its winter lineup and bills the program as “bold” and “minimalist‑inspired,” with works by Nicole Lizée, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Dorothy Chang and emerging Canadian composers including Philippe Macnab‑Séguin and Kai Kubota‑Enright. The event is on the Banff Centre events page and appears in the season announcement published Nov. 19, 2025. Tickets are $30 through the Banff Centre box office.
Ensemble Paramirabo is a six‑member new‑music group based in Montreal with a track record of commissions, recordings and awards. The group’s site notes a mission to champion contemporary work and emerging Canadian composers, and past seasons and recordings have mixed established North American names with newer voices. The ensemble has won an OPUS Performer of the Year award and received a Juno nomination for its recorded projects.
Paramirabo’s programming choices make the Jan. 23 date a neat fit for Rolston Recital Hall. The hall seats roughly 200 people and is known for its natural acoustics, which suit the subtle dynamics and repeating patterns that define much minimalist and post‑minimalist music. In short: this is the kind of piece‑by‑piece listening the hall was built for.
For Banff audiences, the visit continues a season that pairs contemporary classical and experimental acts with more mainstream offerings. The Centre has presented other visiting ensembles this winter, positioning Paramirabo’s recital as part of a broader effort to bring adventurous music to the town’s public stages. Banff’s season page frames the series as a mix of visiting artists and curated projects that extend the Centre’s role as both a training ground and public presenter.
Paramirabo’s own write‑ups describe the group as “intrepid and dedicated,” focused on creating a single ensemble voice to perform new works and expand the traditional concert experience. Artistic director and flutist Jeffrey Stonehouse has spoken in interviews about the ensemble’s interest in immersing itself in a composer’s sound world and in commissioning new pieces — a practice that shows up in their programming and recordings.
The Jan. 23 concert gives Banff residents and visitors a close‑up view of contemporary composition trends that prize repetition, openness and slow transformation. Seats are limited; the Banff Centre events page has ticket and program details and any updates to the lineup.
