Born in Chicoutimi in 1997, drummer and composer Olivier Roberge graduated from the music program at the Collège d'Alma, where he obtained a first place in the Prix d’expression musicale in 2017. Introduced to music at the age of 11, it was on the drums that his journey began, which was expressed through formal studies at the École de Musique de Chicoutimi, then at the Collège d'Alma, but also through sustained involvement in various projects such as rock, punk and heavy metal bands, small jazz and background music ensembles, the Transison concert band from the city of Alma, all in both academic and professional contexts. He is currently pursuing undergraduate musical studies at Laval University.
Drawing freely from several sources of inspiration ranging from "Rush" to "Tool", from Chopin to Bartok through the sounds and harmony of jazz, the young musician's daily practice consists on the one hand of sitting at the piano to read, study and analyze music while quietly welcoming the compositional ideas that surface and, on the other hand, to fortify his instrumental technique and his rhythmic sense through the practice of traditional drum basics.
