Jean F.Renaud

Conductor, pianist, composer and entrepreneur, his musical adventure began in 1980 when his grandfather died and he inherited an upright piano from the beginning of the century. He began classical piano lessons at the age of four with Ryna Dupuis who confirmed that he had an absolute ear for music. Very early on he preferred to take refuge in his inner world where he invented rhythms and melodies.At the age of 14, he conducts for the first time a 40-piece orchestra. In 1996 he recorded his first album, ClassX, La musique dans l’âme. From 2001 to 2007 he directed the Orchestre symphonique des Laurentides.

In 2006, he created the MusicArt Foundation, which financially supports young people in their musical development and encourages the practice of art in all its forms. In 2007 he founded the Orchestre symphonique des Basses-Laurentides. In April 2010, he received the Laurentian Fund for the Arts and Letters grant and conducted the Orchestre philharmonique du Nouveau-Monde. In January 2011, he launched the Laurentian Young Conductor Competition which gives young musicians the chance to learn the basics of conducting in order to
conduct a piece during the concerts of his ensembles. In the summer of 2011, he created the MusicArt camps and welcomes talented
young musicians to teach them music and to surpass themselves. In 2014, he received the prestigious Laurentian fund grant and co-wrote the musical La Rivière Interdite, inspired by Mayan and Aztec traditions. This workbrings together almost 100 artists on stage and is presented until 2016.

Until 2020, while traveling, among other places, in the Caribbean, Colombia and Germany, he presented a few concerts and went back to composing and arranging piano works and recorded the albums ‘’For You’’ and ‘’From you through me’’. In March 2022 he founded La Orquesta Sinfónica de Playa del Carmen, of which he is the titular director, and he presented its inaugural concert on May 25, 2022. 

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