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Frédérique Roy is a musician, composer and author. The first album of his group Lune Très Belle was released on the Wild Silence label (France) in 2019, and his first collection of poetry Lune Très Belle was published by Éditions l'Oie de Cravan (Montreal) the same year. Her second album, Ovale, was released by Boiled Records (Toronto) in spring 2023. Frédérique works as a composer and performer with choreographers Erin Hill and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus. She plays among others with House of Gold (SOFA Label), Splendide Abysse, The Air contains Honey Orchestra and Eugénie Jobin and Gabriel Drolet. She has presented her work in Mexico, Toronto and Montreal (FTA, OFFTA, Dazibao, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Pop Montréal.) Frédérique collaborates in different projects: concert programming, zine publishing, teaching workshops with a somatic approach to voice work. She is also a psycho-social worker at Club Ami, a therapeutic mental health day center.

Gabriel Drolet is a musician who lives and is based in Montreal. He spends most of his practice focusing on the potential of the double bass and looking for ways to interact with the environment in which he finds himself. For more than a decade, he has immersed himself in several musical forms and approaches and then found his friends with whom he explored, experimented and played sounds. Some of these collaborators are: Frédérique Roy, Anne-F Jacques, Eugénie Jobin, Mike Bjella, Tahlia Stacey, Eliana Zimmerman and Philippe Lauzier. He had the chance to perform with some of them in contexts such as Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), the Rat-Drifting concert series (Toronto) and Non-Event (Boston). He was also involved in the organization of the concert series at Café Résonance from 2018 to 2021.

Improviser, composer, trumpet player, Timothée Quost is a French musician who trained first in classical music then in jazz, from which he obtained a master's degree from the Conservatoire de Paris He has shared the stage with musicians such as Joachim Kuhn, Olivier Py, Riccardo del Fra, the National Jazz Orchestra and the bigband umlaut. Beginning his research within the duo Astragales, formed with Pierre Juillard, he developed his research within groups such as the Franco-Belgian quintet ESCARGOT and the QUAM trio. He recorded his first solo album Before Zero Crossing in Copenhagen, during which time he joined musicians such as Lotte Anker, Michael Zerang and Barry Guy on stage. Through contact with composers and improvisers such as Alvin Curran, Fred Frith and Alexandros Markeas, he deepened his approach, particularly in relation to tone/wood, but also in the relationship to writing and improvisation. He is founder of the LIKEN orchestra with the young conductor Léo Margue. He was admitted to a Post Master at the Copenhagen Conservatory (RMC) and for two years he developed the Véreux orchestra.

Vergil Sharkya’ is an Austrian composer, sound explorer and multimedia artist specializing in immersive experiences. Holder of a master's degree in composition and musical theory from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he lived for 15 years in Liverpool where he completed a doctorate in composition at Liverpool John Moores University, then joined the Montreal artistic community in 2010. His fields of interest include the creation of immersive works, collaborative multimedia and mixed projects as well as experimental and improvised music. His music has been heard at SÓNAR+D (Barcelona, ES), at the SAT-Société des arts technologies (Montreal), as well as at the FIMAV-Festival International de Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville). Recordings of his music have been released on labels including Cuneiform Records (US), Audio Research Editions (GB), Mikroclimat (QC), Ambiances Magnétiques (QC), Atrito-Afeito (QC) and UKsupersonic (UK).

Bassoonist based in Montreal, Alex Eastley performs in a wide range of styles from classical and contemporary repertoires to free improvisation. She was Acting Second Bassoon of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for the 2018/19 season and previously was Principal Bassoon of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2018. With a Bachelor degree in Music from the University of Toronto and a master's in bassoon from McGill University, Alex has performed as guest Assistant Principal Bassoon with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and as guest principal bassoon with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hallé. In the realm of improvised music, she has played with the London Improvisers Orchestra, the Dutch Impro Academy in Amsterdam, Vitamin-S and the Audio Foundation in Auckland, and at the Mardi Spaghetti and Mercredimusics series in Montreal. She is a member of 5ilience, Québec's first reed quintet.