Quartet Cor des Alpes

Pascal Schaer is a passionate musician who only lives for creativity and musical experiences. His main tools are the command of improvisation, composition, groove, and of all the technical, acoustic and expressive possibilities of the alphorn, which he sometimes pairs with electronic effects. Born from his meeting with African percussionist Baba Konate and bass player Cyril Moulas, Pascal Schaer’s band creates an original and evolving world that encompasses both jazz and modern musics, and that springs from simple melodies and strong ideas.

Manu Codjia

Open Mind Jazz Project

Emeline Michel

Jael Armand Auguste

Jael Armand Auguste is a classically trained double-bass player, whose musical career took him from playing with philharmonic orchestras in South Florida to exploring Voodoo rhythms in Haiti, his country of origin. Merging his two loves, Jael has created an original style that combines Haitian “Rasin” and folk acoustic music, in a fusion of Voodoo drumming and double-bass. His own compositions also take after Funk, Reggae and Blues, and present socially conscious lyrics.

Challengers

Driven by a passion for jazz, seven musicians met at a “jazz combo” seminar in Port-au-Prince in 2010. They successfully performed together the “live” show at the end of the seminar. Since then, they’ve kept on playing jazz standards, pieces created by jazz masters as well as traditional Haitian tracks reworked in the style of Kreyol Jazz. Conscious of the scale of the challenge, those enthusiasts took the name: Challengers.

Sarah Jane Rameau

During the ten years she spent in Montreal and Bordeaux, Sarah Jane Rameau managed to blend into each of those musical worlds, thanks to her participation to various activities and concerts with numerous talented and renown artists. Back in her hometown, Sarah Jane is building her identity through her talents that brought her an architect’s diploma and through her unique voice. Thanks to a style that unites jazz and funk, Sarah Jane is a rising star of her generation, both in the Haitian and in the international musical community.

Omar Sosa

Agustin Moya

Desir et Fiorini