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Jim Doxas

Michel Heroux

Michel Héroux is a Montréal based musician. More at : https://miheroux.wixsite.com/miher

Charity Chan

An active member of Montreal’s music community, author-composer-performer Charity Chan is a pianist by training who has had the opportunity to perform and present her works throughout Canada, Europe, Oceania, and the United States. Her live performances emphasize the hidden resonant abilities of the piano, often using alternative performance techniques in the process of live creation A unique voice in the world of contemporary and free improvisation, Charity’s music draws from a wide-array of sonic practices as part of her creative inspiration and development. Furthermore, her compositions and improvisations are strongly rooted in the immediacy of physical gesture and the importance of collaborative communication. While her creative work is primarily in contemporary improvised music, she has also worked and studied extensively in the classical and contemporary classical idioms

Evan Tighe

Evan Tighe is a Montreal-based drummer and composer who specializes in contemporary jazz music and improvisation. He has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance from McGill University and released a modern jazz album entitled “Threadcount”. This album explores the creative space between the purely composed and the entirely-improvised through a dialogue of contemporary classical aesthetics and the jazz tradition. Evan currently works as a freelance musician in jazz, indie rock, folk and pop scenes, working with many Montreal bands and musicians. He is currently developing a course on the foundation of time and rhythm for private instruction and undergraduate programs, as well as currently composing music for several new jazz works.

Trio BBQ

Born: March 7, 2002

The BBQ Trio was founded in spring 2004 when Matthew Beaudet, Jean-Michel Berube, Vincent Quirion and had fun at the inevitable return of the great Django Reinhardt at the Café College student Lionel Groulx. Grand Prize winner of 2009 Young Musicians' Council of Culture of the Laurentians (CDC), "favorite" of FGMAT 2006 (Festival of guitars in the world in Abitibi-Témiscamingue) and also the Beau Monde Festival 2009 in Quebec Eymouthiers in France, the trio has carved out a place in the jazz emerged in Quebec and abroad. In 2008 the band released their debut album "CINÉMANOUCHE" essentially consists of arrangements of hit movies and TV as "The Simpsons", "Mario Bros.", "Greensleeves", "Star Wars", "Harry Potter "..

Ivan Garzon

Born: May 1, 1980

Since he moved to Montreal in October 2007, Ivan has won the Montreal Guitar Grand Prix twice (2008 and 2009) and he has played in many venues and festivals, among others at the Montreal Jazz Festival’s Montreal Guitar Show. Ivan has studied with Dave Leibman, Adam Rogers, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ari Hoanig and Ben Monder.Recently he has received a grant from Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec to study with Dave Liebman workshop. He has played with renowned Montreal jazz musicians. Ivan is also a member of the Denis Chang Manouche. With this group, he participated in the Pacific Contact Showcase and has played in many festivals and cultural centers throughout Quebec and British Columbia. In Mexico and Spain, ha played in many festivals, culture centers, universities, hotels, restaurants and bars

Richard Irwin

Born: December 21, 1974

Born in Winchester Ontario, Canada, Richard Irwin was constantly surrounded by music. His father was a multi- instrumentalist and teacher, while his mother, a teacher as well, sang in church with the family. Children’s and church choirs were the beginnings of his musical life, and drums and percussion came shortly after. At 11 years old, a school friend invited him over to check out his new kit, and his passion for the instrument began. Noticing that a serious interest had developed, he was sent to learn the fundamentals. Weekly lessons at the Glengarry School of Pipes and Drums taught him every rudiment on the snare, as well as a chance to compete in Scottish events all over North America and Europe at a very early age. The drum set soon replaced snare competitions, and the Pipe Band was substituted with concert bands, small orchestras, pit bands, and various working bar bands

Vincent Stephen-Ong

Born: May 15, 1976

Born and raised in Montréal, saxophonist, pianist, composer, and teacher Vincent Stephen-Ong's unique approach to music stems from a constant search for honesty, originality, and emotional expression within an artistic musical concept. Starting at the age of 10 by teaching himself the piano, he soon began taking formal instruction and discovered jazz and the saxophone at the age of 13. Studies continued at the McGill Conservatory and later McGill's Music Faculty Programme, studying jazz saxophone. In 2003, he studied privately with internationally-renowned jazz pianist Jason Moran. In 2005-2006, he was accepted for the "Jeunes Volontaires" grant programme for the production of a full-length debut recording

Helmut Lipsky

Born: November 6, 1953

Born in Germany, Helmut Lipsky studied violin with Abraham Comfort at the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland where he received degrees in performance and pedagogy. He continued his studies in New York, working for three years with Professor Ivan Galamian. Later he was a pupil of Itzhak Perlman at the Brooklyn College Conservatory, where he obtained his Master’s Degree. He was awarded the Presidential Scholars Award from the Council of the City of New York for his merits as a violinist and his academic work. Shortly after he toured the US with chamber music ensembles and as a soloist with orchestras in Switzerland and the United States. Resident of Montreal since 1980, Helmut Lipsky is very active on the national and international music scene as a violonist, composer and teacher in the realms of classical music, jazz and contemporary music

Richard Kurek

Born: August 26, 1948

Played pro rock from the early sixties to the late eighties self taught started on guitar , then moved over to Hammond, presently on piano, all recordings on vinyl