Gaël Chabot-Leclerc returns to his native region to share with us his acquired experience, among others, in the creation of glass instruments.
Indeed, the young composer offers an extraordinary residency during which the musicians will make instruments from reused glass containers to make glass bells and other instruments which are assembled in an exclusive structure that allows musicians to play their "conventional" instrument while handling the glass percussions.
- Gaël Chabot-Leclerc
- Robert Pelletier
- David Simard
- Caroline Tremblay
- Marianne Croft
- Antoine Simard
Gaël Chabot-Leclerc is a percussionist and entrepreneur from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean where he completed a master's degree in interpretation (percussion) at the Saguenay Music Conservatory. He has been a 5-time winner of a first place at the Canadian Music Competition in his category. He completed training in Music Business Management at the renowned Berklee of Music in Boston. In 2008, he was honored to be part of the inaugural YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which performed at Carnegie Hall in New York under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony.
In 2010 he created the tango group Guardia Nueva, which produced a CD in 2012 on which he performed several of the arrangements. The group founded the tango festival Tang-aux-foins which will be in its 10th edition in October 2022, in St-Fulgence.
He has been based in Vancouver for 7 years.
Gaël is currently stage manager for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and plays in various ensembles and orchestras in British Columbia: 240 Northern, space for the creation of new music Fringe Percussion, percussion quartet Sound of Dragon, tour in Asia in fall 2019 Vancouver Island Symphony
