Tina Pearson is a Canadian composer, sound artist, facilitator and performer who dwells in soundworlds that are unusual, provocative and intimate.

Robert Lemay has composed many works and received numerous international awards. Among recent honors include the second prize from the International Competition Prize Luxembourg 2007 and the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006. Other international prizes include the first prize from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium. In addition, Lemay received three prizes from the CAPAC (presently SOCAN).

His music draws its inspiration primarily from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, political or social events and includes two series of tributes; one to filmmakers and another to abstract painters. 

Lemay has been performed in Canada, the United States, Asia (Japan, South Korea and Thailand), Europe (Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Poland, Belgium and Scotland), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela), Mexico,  Israel & Australia. Many of his pieces have been broadcast on Société Radio-Canada, CBC, Bavarian State Radio, European Broadcasting Union (Luxembourg), Polish National Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Autria and ABC Classic FM (Australia). Twenty of his pieces appear on 18 different CDs in Canada, Europe and USA.

Lemay holds a doctorate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal a master’s degree from Université Laval. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has worked with David Felder and taken part in seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. In France, he worked with François Rossé in Bordeaux and Georges Apergis at the ATEM in Paris.


Stacey Brown is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, adjunct professor of music, and published French-English translator now based in St. John's (Newfoundland) after two decades in Montreal. Her music includes opera and concert works, from solo to orchestra, as well as music for projects involving theatre and dance.
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Stacey Brown est compositrice agréée du Centre de musique canadienne, chargée de cours en musique et traductrice français-anglais nouvellement installée à St. John's (Terre-Neuve) après deux décennies à Montréal. Sa musique couvre tant la musique de concert, du solo à l’orchestre, que la musique pour le théâtre, la danse et l'opéra.

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new and old music
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Based in Montreal, percussionist David Therrien Brongo has carved out a career as a performer, a pedagogue, and a researcher. He collaborates regularly with a number of ensembles; he holds the position of timpanist and principal percussionist with the Orchestre de l’Agora and the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. From 2016 to 2023 he held the principal percussion position in Ensemble Paramirabo. Therrien Brongo also plays in numerous other ensembles like the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble, and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.

Therrien Brongo obtained his doctorate in music performance from the Schulich School of Music of McGill University under the tutelage of Fabrice Marandola, where he conducted research, financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, pertaining to solo percussion works in Quebec. He previously studied at the Université de Montréal as well as at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona.

Over the course of his career, Therrien Brongo has earned several prizes and grants: fourth place at the 2021 Prix d’Europe competition, a grant from the Fondation Père Lindsay as well as various Prix Opus and JUNO award nominations with Ensemble Paramirabo. Therrien Brongo is an artist endorser of Bergerault and Dream Cymbals and Gongs.

Parler bien c'est le duo Jane Chan (violoncelle) et Nicolas Hyatt (synthétiseurs). Avec un penchant vers l'exploration de la musicalité dans la parole, nos projets tournent principalement autour d’extraits d’entrevues enregistrés de conversations, ceux-ci intégrés à côté d’un ensemble d’instruments acoustiques et électroniques.

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