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David Jacques
David Jacques was born in 1978 in Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada. He studied the classical guitar at the College of Sainte-Foy with Jacques Chandonnet and François Leclerc. Between 1997 and 2002, he studied at the Conservatory of music of Quebec in Paul-André Gagnon's class. In 2002, he obtained the Conservatory first prize in classical guitar and the "prize with high distinction" in chamber music. In 2004, he obtained a second Master degree with A+ grade (High distinction) at the University Laval in classical and baroque guitar with Maestro Rémi Boucher. He completed a bachelor in music teaching and is finishing a third bachelor in jazz guitar with Gabriel Hamel at Laval University. He is now working on a PHD project at Montreal University in baroque guitar interpretation. Many times a finalist and semi-finalist in international and national competitions, he has won many of them in Canada like the Concours Clermont Pépin, YTV awards, Cégeps en Spectacle, Prix d'expression musicale, Concours de musique de Sillery. He is sponsored by the Quebec art council, Canada art Council, Fond Jeunesse, Club musical and the AGJMB association. He gave classical concerts in USA, France, Poland, Austria, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Vietnam, Australia and Canada. With such success, he was invited to give concerts for many well-known names like the President of USA, the Prime minister of Canada and for 4 Prime ministers of Quebec. Not only a soloist, David Jacques performs as a lutenist with the internationally well-known medieval ensemble ANONYMUS. He also plays with other early music groups like Stadacone and Ensemble Nouvelle-France. He plays regularly with several orchestras like the famous Montreal Symphonic Orchestra. His passion for early music brings him to acquire more than 45 rare instruments and to develop more a lot of different styles. Between 1995 and 2004, he gave not less than 2000 musical representations in a variety of styles: Classical, Jazz, Pop, Ethnic music, Folk music, Early music… many of these concerts were broadcast by the radio and television of Radio-Canada, CBC, Art TV, Australian Classic FM radio, HTV 7 Vietnam and FRANCE 2. He made a lot of vocal and instrumental original arrangements. He also recorded 11 official CDs with different groups with XXI Records and Analekta records and is distributed in many countries. He is now recording the complete work of Robert de Visée on his baroque guitar with XXI Records. He gives a lot of private lessons and master classes and is recently a new classical guitar teacher at Ste-Foy College. In 2002, he created the company DJ Productions and works hard to promote the classical guitar in Quebec
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