Originally from Montreal, flutist Martin Blais holds a Master's degree in Chamber Music and a Master's degree in Flute from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal in the class of Marie-Andrée Benny. He also holds an Artist Diploma (orchestral excerpts) from the Université de Montréal in the class of Denis Bluteau.

He received scholarships from the Camp musical d'Asbestos in 2008, from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2010 and 2011, from the Orford Arts Centre from 2008 to 2016, from the Banff Center in 2014 and from the Domaine Forget in 2015, He studied with Emmanuel Pahud, Mathieu Dufour, Philippe Bernold, Juliette Hurel, Robert Langevin, Leone Buyse, Denis Bluteau, Stefano de Micheli, Jacinthe Forand, Michel Belavance, Véronique Lacroix, Ana Sokolovic and Dorothy Chang.

In addition, Martin Blais has performed under the baton of Maestro Marc David with the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil, Maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Kent Nagano, Raffi Armenian, Alain Trudel as well as Jean-François Rivest in master classes with the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal Orchestra.

Martin has also performed as a soloist with the Orchestre des jeunes de la Montérégie, the Orchestre à cordes du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and at the Orford Arts Centre.

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