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Performing at Glebe-St. James United Church, Saturday October 14th 2023 7:00pm
- Yves Charuest – Alto Saxophone
- Nicolas Caloia – Bass
Canadian saxophonist Yves Charuest has been active since the 1980s on the Canadian jazz and improvised music scene, playing with many Canadian musicians such as Michel Ratté, Jean Beaudet, Lisle Ellis, Jean Derome and Pierre Cartier in different groups and projects: I Like Jazz, Evidence, Duo Charuest-Ratté, Trio Michel Ratté and Wreck’s Progress and more recently with Nicolas Caloia, Lori Freedman, Sam Shalabi, and Peter Valsamis among others.
He was a member of the Peter Kowald Trio (1985-1990) with German bassist Peter Kowald and South-African drummer Louis Moholo, with whom he played extensively in Europe and the USA. He also played with several musicians from the US and abroad such as William Parker, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley, Georg Graewe, Roscoe Mitchell, Lê Quan Nin, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders, Steve Noble, Richard Scott and Audrey Chen. Charuest has collaborated with electroacoustic composers Jean-François Denis, jef chippewa and Jean Piché.
He is currently involved in many projects with the following ensembles: duo Charuest-Caloia, Now and Then, Charuest/Shalabi/Caloia, the Ratchet Orchestra, Charuest/Ellis/Valsamis, a duo with British violist Benedict Taylor, a duo with dancer Alanna Kraaijeveld, and collaborates on specific projects with electroacoustic composer Gilles Gobeil and the Bozzini Quartet.
Nicolas Caloia is a Montreal based double bassist, composer, bandleader and the artistic director of the production company Musique Rayonnante. Caloia has been commissioned to compose works for the Quatuor Bozzini (2019), the GGRIL (2017), Productions Super Musique (2012), and the Festival International de Musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) (2011). As bass player and bandleader Caloia’s music can be heard in ongoing collaborations with Tristan Honsinger, Joe McPhee, Matana Roberts, Lori Freedman, Malcolm Goldstein, Sam Shalabi, Jean Derome, Joshua Zubot and Yves Charuest among many others. As a recording artist, Caloia has a dozen releases under his own name or in shared billing with others, and has as many credits as a sideman. His concerts and recordings have been critically acclaimed both at home and abroad.
Currently, the majority of his work as a composer finds a voice in the Ratchet Orchestra, a large group that includes many of the top improvising musicians in Montreal. The group has recorded four CDs: a self-produced live album in 2007; a Juno nominated studio recording put out by Drip Audio in 2011; a 2015, Mode Records release which features compositions by violinist Malcolm Goldstein; and a fourth CD which was released in March 2019 on the Ambiances Magnétiques label. The Ratchet Orchestra have performed at the Suoni per il Popolo festival (2008 and 2013), the Off Jazz Festival (2014, 2018), the Guelph Jazz Festival (2010), and at FIMAV (2011, 2014).