Described as a “rising star” by Musicworks magazine, Juno-nominated composer Jared Miller’s eclectic music is “playful” (The New York Times), “hypnotic” (Sequenza21), “phantasmagorical” (Lucid Culture) and “highly personal” (CBC Radio). He has collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Montréal, Vancouver, Toronto, Nova Scotia, Detroit, New Jersey and Chicago, […]
Called “a brilliant musical scientist” (CBC), “breathtakingly inventive” (Sydney Times Herald), and “utterly inspiring” (I Care If You Listen), multi award-winning composer and filmmaker Nicole Lizée explores themes of malfunction, glitch, turntablism, rave culture, urbex, film theory, psychedelia, game culture, experimental fashion, and thrash metal to create a new kind of expression. Nicole’s works are […]
Keiko Devaux is a contemporary music composer based in Montréal. Her approach embraces a love of electroacoustic sounds and methodology by manipulating and distorting acoustic sound with digital tools, and then transcribing or retranslating it back into musical notation and the acoustic realm. Her varied interests include emotional experience and affect, auto-organizational phenomena in nature […]
Three-time Grammy nominee Missy Mazzoli was recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York). Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, Eighth Blackbird, the BBC Symphony, Scottish Opera, Norwegian National Opera and […]
Nico Muhly, born in 1981, is an American composer who writes orchestral music, works for the stage, choral music, chamber music and sacred music. He’s received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera: Two Boys (2011) and Marnie (2018); Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, Wigmore […]
A native of Port-au-Prince, David Bontemps studied piano with Serge Villedrouin. Based in Montréal, he published several recordings, including Offrandes Vodouesques, a cycle of 24 songs by Werner Jaegerhuber (1900-1953), premiered with soprano Chantal Lavigne. With a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, […]
His heart first began beating in 1962 thanks to immigrant parents who had attached themselves to Montréal, near Jeanne-Mance Park. Then came the hands that started playing piano at the age of six. Then the voice, with the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal and breath, at the Conservatory, with a trombone, but also ears that learned […]
François Dompierre is a writer, presenter, rambler, and baker; but first and foremost he is a composer and improviser. He began his career as an author-composer-performer and soon became an orchestrator, collaborating with Félix Leclerc, for whom he produced five albums, including Le tour de l’île, and several other Québécois artists. Dompierre, a recording of […]
An orchestral suite meant to accompany chocolate tasting, a piano concerto as a soundtrack for a chess game, some operatic weather reports, a symphonic aerobic dance… With his communicative musical language and the originality of his concepts, the Montréal-based composer Maxime Goulet connects with audiences from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences, from youth audiences […]
Catherine Major has won numerous awards over the years, including the prestigious Coup de cœur from the Académie Charles-Cros, the Félix-Leclerc prize, and a Jutra for Best film score. As a singer-songwriter, Catherine Major has trod the boards of halls and festivals all over Quebec and abroad. To date, the artist has delivered five albums […]
