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A multi-talented guitarist, with influences ranging from Django Reinhardt to Lee Ritenour, Bergeron has been a professional musician for 30 years, acquiring experience both on stage and in recording studios. He has been an accompanying musician for many musicians in various musical fields, such as: André Gagnon (Canadian tour), Helmut Lotti (touring in New York, Boston, Toronto, Montréal and Québec with the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval), Nathalie Choquette (les Francofolies de Montréal with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal), Mario Pelchat, Jean-Pierre Ferland, René Simard, Ginette Reno, Robert Charlebois, Nanette Workman, Daniel Lavoie, and André-Philippe Gagnon.
He has been a guitarist for several television and radio shows, including: "Reddy Reddy Go" (TQS), and "Chabada" (TVA). He has been a musical director and designer, and an arranger and guitarist for several Musical Reviews, from 1989 to 2003.
Recently, Bergeron recorded, in duet with Andrée Boudreau, a "Miles Davis" special for CBC Radio, live from the Museum of Fine Arts with Stanley Péan.
Bergeron studied at the cégep de Drummondville, at the Université de Montréal (Bachelor's Degree in Music), and at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Bachelor's Degree in Jazz-Pop Performance).
As his passion for Jazz keeps growing, he performs with various local jazz musicians on a regular basis.
Since 2001, Bergeron has been teaching guitar and arrangement at the collège Lionel-Groulx, in Ste-Thérèse. He also is a Pop-Jazz Guitar lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal. |
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Daniel Richard, drums and percussion |
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As a trained drummer and percussionist (he holds a Bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal), Richard finds his influences in various musical genres, such as jazz (with drummers like Roy Haynes, Victor Lewis, and Jack DeJohnette), as well as Brazilian, Cuban and African ethnic music. Richard has been indulging his passion for music for over 25 years as a musician, and over 15 years as a music program educator at the collège Lionel-Groulx, where he originally studied back in the '80s.
Musically, his experiences include performances at various events, such as the Festival de jazz de Montréal, the "Off festival", the Francofolies (Montréal and La Rochelle) and at variety programs on CBC Television, Télé-Québec, and TQS, recordings (Villeray, Abri Fiscal) and dance class accompaniment. Richard also regularly performs at jazz locations in the Laurentians (Arousse, Bistro Plein-Air, Centre Culturel de Prévost, the cégep de Ste-Thérèse's Jeudi-jazz) with musical ensembles and groups of all sorts including musicians such as Richard Dupuis, Normand Lachapelle, Claude Bergeron, François Blouin, and Cyril Beaulieu.
He has been collaborating with Andrée Boudreau since 2003, working on projects such as recording the album "Andrée Boudreau Trio" in 2007, and getting involved with project "Aulofée" from its very beginning, all the way up to its realization in 2011. |
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| Richard Dupuis, bass and string bass |
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Richard Dupuis studied at Concordia University and at the collège Lionel-Groulx, where he has been teaching bass, ensemble music and musical theory since 1993. In the late '80s, he was a bassist for "Choroswing", a world music group started by Richard Léveillé and Luc Fortin.
In 1992, he became bassist and musical director for comedian and signer Gildor Roy, with whom he did television, radio, studio and on-stage work for the 12 following years. Through Gildor Roy, he accompanied performing artists such as: Gaston Mandeville, Maxime Roy, Judy Richard, Guy Bélanger, Renée Martel, Richard Petit, Patrick Bourgeois, Patrick Norman and Daniel Boucher. In 2004, he became bassist for signer Bruno Pelletier on his tour called "Un monde à l'envers", and with whom he accompanied Nicolas Ciconne, Luce Dufault and Gino Vanelli.
For 10 years, he played in "Mascara", a salsa jazz group where he met saxophone player Michel Dubeau, with whom he started the "Night Dreamer Band", a tribute to the music of Wayne Shorter. He performs on a regular basis with various jazz musicians in the Laurentians (Michel Dubeau, Alain Boyer, Pascal Tremblay, François Blouin, Andrée Boudreau). |
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