(Bass) clarinetist
Professor for bass clarinet at the Prince Claus Conservatory Groningen (NL)
Artistic director of the Dutch Basklarinet Festijn

Pianista colombiano radicado en Montreal, Canadá. Especializado en música contemporánea latinoamericana. Pianista del Ensamble CG en Bogotá y de los ensambles Wapiti y Paramirabo en Montreal. Coorganizador de la serie de conciertos No Hay Banda.

Colombian pianist living in Montreal, Canada. Specialized in contemporary Latin-American repertoire. Pianist of Bogotá-based Ensemble CG and of the Montreal-based ensembles Wapiti and Paramirabo. Co-organizer of the concert series No Hay Banda.

berlin-based percussionist, improviser, composer
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Jules Bastin-Fontaine (b. 2000) is a composer and tuba player originally from Quebec City, now based in Montreal. At the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, he obtained his master's degree with distinction in instrumental composition with Maxime McKinley in 2024. At the same institution, he is now completing an undergraduate degree in electroacoustic composition with Louis Dufort and a post-master degree with Maxime McKinley and Ofer Pelz.

His music has been performed by the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Ensemble Paramirabo, Ensemble MusiquAvenir, the Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal conducted by Tania Miller and the Orchestre de la francophonie conducted by Simon Rivard. At the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, he composed the music for Control, a work choreographed by Jera Wolfe with voice and poetry by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, premiered in May 2024. In June of the same year, he was composer-in-residence at Berlin's Akademie der Künste, working on a co-composition with composer Lily Koslow.

His music has been awarded three prizes in the SOCAN Foundation's “Competition for Young Composers”. Trio en hommage à Bruckner won the “Relève VVA 2019” prize, awarded by E27 Musiques nouvelles, and his work L'heure joyeuse won the “ECM+/Orford Generation Composition Prize” at the Orford 2020 Virtual Academy.

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Gabriel Trottier est un corniste soliste, chambriste et musicien d’orchestre interprétant la musique ancienne à la musique actuelle sur instruments historiques et modernes. De plus, il est porteur de projets de commandes d’œuvres et participe à des projets interdisciplinaires qui allient à la musique des éléments d’autres disciplines artistiques, tels que le théâtre et les arts visuels.

Présentement membre de l’Ensemble Tesse, Gabriel Trottier travaille aussi régulièrement avec la Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec ainsi qu’avec plusieurs orchestres et ensembles québécois. À l’international, il a collaboré entre autres avec des ensembles tels que l’Ensemble intercontemporain, le quintette à vent Le Concert Impromptu (Paris) et l’Oslo Sinfonietta. Diplômé de la Norwegian Academy of Music (M. Mus 2016) et de l’Université de Montréal (D. Mus 2021), il a étudié sous la tutelle de Frøydis Ree Wekre, Julius Pranevicius, Saar Berger et Louis-Philippe Marsolais. Spécialisé en musique contemporaine, il a été fellow de l’International Ensemble Modern Academy (M. Mus 2018), en Allemagne et il a participé à l’Académie du Festival de Lucerne. Son travail a été soutenu, entre autres, par le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) et la Fondation Sylva- Gelber pour la musique.

Gabriel Trottier encourage et soutient l’innovation dans l’écriture d’œuvres pour le cor, en contribuant à la recherche et en diffusant le savoir sur l’histoire de la musique ainsi que sur les nouvelles pratiques artistiques. En ce sens, ses activités professionnelles incluent aussi l’enseignement, la musique mixte et l’improvisation.

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Gabriel Trottier is a solo, chamber and orchestral horn player who performs baroque to new music on modern and historical instruments. In addition, he initiates the commissioning of new works and participates in interdisciplinary projects that bring together music with other art forms, including theater and visual arts.

Currently a member of Ensemble Tesse, Gabriel Trottier also frequently works with the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec as well as many orchestras and ensembles in the province. Internationally, he has worked with the Ensemble intercontemporain, the woodwind quintet Le Concert Impromptu (Paris) and the Oslo Sinfonietta, among others. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music (M. Mus 2016) and the University of Montreal (D. Mus 2021), he studied under the tutelage of Frøydis Ree Wekre, Julius Pranevicius, Saar Berger and Louis-Philippe Marsolais. Specializing in contemporary music performance, he was a fellow at the International Ensemble Modern Academy (M. Mus 2018) in Germany and is an alumnus of the Lucerne Festival Academy. His work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Sylva- Gelber Music Foundation. 

Gabriel Trottier encourages and supports innovation within the creation of new works for the horn and by contributing to research. Further, he aims to disseminate the knowledge of music history and new artistic practices. In that way, his professional activities also include teaching, live electronics, and improvisation.

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