Jean-Michel Blais is a Montreal-based pianist, composer and performer signed to Arts & Crafts and Mercury KX (Decca). His first album Il made it into Time Magazine's Top 10 in 2016, and his music has since accumulated over 250 million online streams. Suffering from Tourette's syndrome and member of the LGBTQ+ community, he also draws on his experience as a former special educator to write music. With his piano, orchestral or electronic, ecstatic yet intimate compositions, Jean-Michel travels the world (Europe, North America, Russia), while enchanting audiences at home, playing for over 40,000 spectators at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2023. Also scoring, he won a Cannes Soundtrack Award for the soundtrack to Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime and composed the music for Wonderfall, a Moment Factory installation for Singapore's Changi airport. Teaching himself orchestration, he crafted his last two opuses, aubades and sérénades, touring around the world with both chamber and symphonic renditions.