Whitened under harness after 50 years in the business, Jean Derome is an accomplished composer, multi-instrumentalist and improviser with a composite repertoire. Trained in almost every school but trapped in none, Derome zealously devotes himself to the pursuit of new musical horizons in an incessant back-and-forth between musique actuelle and bruitist, tonal and atonal, jazzistic and cacophonous. His exuberant discography includes over a hundred albums and as many compositions for film, theater and dance.

Groups still active include Nous perçons les oreilles, a dazzling duo with Joane Hétu; the vigorous ensemble Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms; the Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay, well known on the Montréal jazz scene; the Fanfare Pourpour, as well as the Ensemble SuperMusique, which Derome occasionally assumes the direction. The remarkable creative vitality to which Derome bears witness was the subject of a documentary, Derome ou les turbulences musicales (2015), signed by Richard Jutras, and has earned him numerous awards and distinctions, including 6 Opus prizes notably for record of the year with Musiques de chambres (2014-2015) and Résistances (2017-2018).

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