Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal

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The Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal is a professional large ensemble founded in Montréal in 2012 by producer Jacques Laurin with a group of Quebec jazz composers, conductors, and performers. The orchestra uses flexible configurations of roughly 10 to 45 musicians, moving from tentet instrumentation to a jazz studio orchestra with winds, strings, rhythm section, percussion, and other orchestral colours. Its stated mission is to commission, present, and record new work while interpreting 20th and 21st century orchestral jazz. The current official roster names Marianne Trudel, Jean-Nicolas Trottier, and Samuel Blais among its conductors, with Trottier in musical direction and a broad pool of Montréal musicians and guests. The official history records more than 100 concerts, more than 900 performed works, and 10 commissions since 2012. Its collaborators include Christine Jensen, Marianne Trudel, Joe Sullivan, Jean Derome, Elizabeth Shepherd, Jeanne Rochette, Bendik Hofseth, Jacques Kuba Séguin, and many other Canadian and international artists. The exact Spotify identity 2aHGMkkXbLqq3nix0l5S3c contains 10 primary album containers. Nine have usable provider dates from 2015 through 2026. A tenth, the Bendik Hofseth collaboration, is a valid ONJ recording but carries an impossible 1999 provider date; the orchestra was founded in 2012, and the official project page states that the album was recorded in 2018. MusicList retains the collaboration but excludes that date from the catalogue range. Representative releases include Pandemonia!, Equal = Orchestra, Elizabeth Shepherd | Poigne de funk, gant de velours, Jeanne Rochette | LIVE au Gesù, and the 2026 Jacques Kuba Séguin collaboration La trilogie des odeurs. The orchestra's own site lists a full 2026-2027 Place des Arts season and touring dates through May 2027, independently confirming current activity and its Montréal, Quebec base. Professional inquiries route through the official contact page without reproducing direct staff details. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.