Rachel Therrien

Rachel Therrien (born March 29, 1987 in Saint-Valérien , Québec ) is a Canadian jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , composition ).

Live and act

Therrien completed a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Montreal, as well as a degree in Art Management and a music certificate from the Instituto Supérior de Arte (Havana, Cuba). In 2012 she took part in the workshop of the Banff Center for Jazz and Creative Music under the direction of Dave Douglas and Vijay Iyer .

Since 2011 Therrien has released four albums under his own name on the Multiple Chord Music and Truth Revolution Records labels , which received excellent reviews. In the past few years she toured North America, Mexico and Europe as a band leader. After several European tours, Therrien founded her European quartet Vena , which released an album of the same name on the French label Bonsaï Musique in 2020 .

Therrien developed into a key figure in the Montreal jazz scene: in 2013 she founded the Montreal Jazz Composers Series , in which more than 200 musician composers from Canada and the USA have come together to present their own works. She also appeared with Claudio Roditi , Paquito D'Rivera , Lee Konitz , Ken Peplowski , Arturo O'Farrill and Michel Legrand , worked for the Canadian television show Belle et Bum and has been on albums with the Diva Jazz Orchestra and Beth McKenna Big Band to hear.

Prizes and awards

Therrien is the winner of the TD Grand Prize Jazz Award 2015 at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and received the Stingray Jazz Rising Star Award in 2016 . In 2018 she was nominated for the best jazz producer at the IMA Award.

Discographic notes

Vena (2020, with Daniel Gassin, Dario Guibert, Mareike Wiening and Irving Acao)
Why Don't You Try (2017, with Benjamin Deschamps, Charles Trudel, Simon Pagé, Alain Bourgeois)
Pensamiento: Proyecto Columbia (2016)
Home Inspiration (2014)
On Track (2011, with Sébastien Fortin, Charles Trudel, Simon Pagé, Alain Bourgeois)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Premiere: Listen to Rachel Therrien's 'V For Vena'. Down Beat , February 20, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Therrien, Rachel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian jazz musician (trumpet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Valérien , Québec

[1] Premiere: Listen to Rachel Therrien's 'V For Vena'. Down Beat , February 20, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .