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James O’Callaghan is a composer and multimedia artist based in Berlin. His work has been described as “very personal… with its own colour anchored in the unpredictable,” (Goethe-Institut). It spans chamber, orchestral, live electronic and acousmatic idioms, audio installations, video-music, site-specific performances, electronic dance music, and interdisciplinary collaboration — most recently with choreographer Edouard Lock and artist Lois Brown. In 2016 an album of his acousmatic works, Espaces Tautologiques, was released by empreintes DIGITALes, and his extended collaboration with Ensemble Paramirabo resulted in a portrait album of his works in 2019, entitled Alone and unalone.
	His music has received nearly forty prizes and nominations, including the ISCM Young Composer Award (2017), the Salvatore Martirano Award (2016), and the SOCAN Foundation John Weinzweig Grand Prize (2014). Significant nominations include those for the Gaudeamus Award (2016), Prix Métamorphoses (2018), and two JUNO Awards (2014, 2020). In 2021 he received the Prix Opus for “Composer of the Year.” 
	Active as an arts organiser, he co-founded and co-directed the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab. Originally from British Columbia, he lived in Montréal for 11 years and since 2022 has been based out of Berlin.

Musicien, percussionniste, directeur artistique de EP4 ensemble à percussion

Plumes is a hybrid pop/classical group originating from Montréal, whose recent "homes away from homes" have included New York City and Paris. Singer/guitarist and songwriter Veronica Charnley, former frontperson for Canadian indie rock group Flotilla, is joined by musicians from diverse backgrounds, including composer and multi-instrumentalist Geof Holbrook, harpist Éveline Grégoire-Rousseau, drummer Karl Jannuska and an expanding cast of orchestral players.

On the group's eponymous full-length, released in July 2012, Charnley's inventive songwriting is supported by arrangements for string quartets, brass quintets, clarinets and violas, and even a full orchestra in a central eight-minute track inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. The record received glowing reviews from publications such as Exclaim! and NYC Deli Magazine, and it's been broadcast extensively on CBC Radio.

The band has toured across Canada, Germany, France and the U.S. They've appeared in festivals such as Wolfe Island Festival, Evolve, Ritornello Chamber Music Festival, NXNE, Brain Cave, and Hans Dampf Festival. 

They are currently mixing two albums, an indie-pop album that was recorded at Castle Rohrsdorf, near Dresden, Germany, in February 2014. The other, for chamber orchestra and voice, was recorded in Montréal at Mechanicland Studios in January 2014 and will be released under the name Plumes Ensemble. They're excited to share these two sides of themselves in concerts across Europe and North America in the coming year.

Architek Percussion is a Montreal-based quartet dedicated to the development and performance of avant-garde, experimental, minimalist, and electroacoustic music. Founded in early 2012, they have emerged as dynamic exponents of chamber music, equally comfortable in performing classic repertoire and exploring new terrain through premieres.

In addition to their self-produced concerts in Montreal, Architek has recently appeared as guests of Ottawa New Music Creators, Live@CIRMMT (Montreal), Innovations en Concert (Montreal), Matralab (Concordia University), Pointe-a-Calliere Museum (Montreal), the Schulich Year of Contemporary Music (McGill University), and the Cluster Festival (Winnipeg). In October 2013 they toured the Maritimes, performing and conducting workshops at several Universities in the region.

The members of Architek are ardent devotees of premiering new Canadian music, having recently done so with works by Adam Basanta, Eliot Britton, Beavan Flanagan, Nicole Lizée, Christos Hatzis, Nicolas Hyatt, and James O’Callaghan. Their current repertoire includes works for both pitched and non-pitched percussion instruments, and reflects the cultural and stylistic diversity of North American contemporary music.

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Architek Percussion est un quatuor de percussion émergent concentré sur le développement et l'interprétation de la musique avant-garde, expérimentale, minimaliste et électro-acoustique, particulièrement dévoué à la création d'œuvres des compositeurs émergents. Avec une répertoire actuelle comprise d'une mélange d'œuvres écrites également pour les instruments à claviers et pour les instruments à peaux, Architek est capable de montrer la diversité culturelle et stylistique de la music contemporaine de l'Amérique du Nord. Le quatuor a été former à l'Université de McGIll en 2011, où les membres se sont rencontrer pendant leurs études de maîtrises sous la supervision d'Ayiun Huang et Fabrice Marandola.

Basé à Montréal, Architek présente une série de concerts annuelle, tout en restant fidèle aux communautés différentes de la ville avec ses présentations spéciales. En 2012/13 les membres ont présenté des concerts gratuits à McGill (Schulich Year of Contemporary Music), au Vieux Port (en collaboration avec La Musée Pointe-à-Calliere), Christchurch Cathedral (en collaboration avec Concerts Cathédrale Contemporaine), et à l'Université Concordia (Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques). A part des concerts présentés à Montréal, Architek a réalisé des concerts chez Gallery 345 à Toronto, et comme invités spécial à Ottawa avec le Ottawa Choral Society et Ottawa New Music Creators. La saison 2013/14 figurera la participation du quatuor chez le Cluster Festival à Winnipeg, LIve@CIRMMT à Montréal et une tournée des provinces maritimes du Canada.

Architek est fortement dévoué à la musique nouvelle et à la commissionnement de nouvelles pièces de plusieurs compositeurs canadiens où basé au Canada ; incluants Eliot Britton, Kota Nakamura, Beavan Flanagan, et Nicolas Hyatt, tandis que l'interprétation des œuvres des compositeurs canadiens Christos Hatzis, Claude Vivier et Sandeep Bhagwati. Ces pratiques à fait établir Architek comme une pièce importante dans la scène musicale montréalaise, ainsi que celle du Canada.

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