Jean Derome and Joane Hétu

When:

Duo: Saturday October 4th, 20h30
with the IMOO Chamber Orcehster: Saturday October 4th, 21h30

• Joane Hétu – alto saxophone, voice
• Jean Derome – saxophones, flutes, objects

For over 25 years, throughout an unusual career, Joane Hétu has carved her own place on the Canadian creative music scene. A woman of reason and passion, she mostly expresses her art through the voice and the alto sax, two instruments she approaches in a similar way, bringing into a unique symbiosis the flexibility of one and the urgency of the other. She is self-taught and played in the cutting-edge groupsWondeur Brass, Justine and Les Poules, whose resolutely avant-garde rock carried her throughout North America and Europe. Later she reinvented the sensual song format through the prism of musique actuelle with her own band Castor et compagnie. Since then, she has left rock music behind, but still flirts with song, particularly with the duo Nous perçons les oreilles, in which she continues to explore the narrow line between laughter and tears. http://www.actuellecd.com/en/bio/hetu_jo/

One of the most active and eclectic musicians on the Canadian creative music scene,Jean Derome has managed to earn the recognition of a larger public, a rare feat in that field. Thanks to his large-scale musique actuelle projects, his compositions, his work as an improviser, his jazz groups and his music for the screen and the stage,Derome ranks as a major creative force, in Québec and abroad. He is experienced and innovative on both saxophone and flute, and his unique writing style cannot be mistaken for anyone else’s. Sensitive and powerful, his music often features a funny strike that makes its complex nature more inviting.

http://www.actuellecd.com/en/bio/derome_je/