Annie Dominique

Saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist and composer, Annie Dominique has been a professional artist of the Montreal music scene for the last 20 years. After obtaining her Master’s degree from McGill University in 2014 with honours, Annie started writing her first album. The arrangements of the tenor saxophonist took the form of a quintet and Tout Autour (2015), then, Rue Langevin (2017) was released under the name of the Annie Dominique Quintet. Several shows ̶ The Montreal OFF Jazz 2015 among them, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival 2016 ̶ followed those releases, as well as interviews. The reviews were unanimous, in Francophone just as in the Anglophone medias. The incisive and modern jazz of Annie Dominique will leave its mark on the Montreal scene. The third album of the group will be released later in 2022.

On top of mounting her own show, Annie continues to play and to be invited to perform in concerts with different groups, among them: the National Jazz Orchestra of Montreal, the Jazzlab Orchestra, the Beth McKenna Jazz Orchestra, the Jean-Nicolas Trottier Tentet and the Taylor Donaldson Big Band. Furthermore, she is a member of the well-known Vic Vogel Big Band.

First place winner of the contest Jazz en Rafale (2007) with the Simon Legault Quartet, she also participated in the recording of various albums: Jean-Nicolas Trottier Big Band and Tentet (Blue Lines), Beth McKenna Jazz Orchestra (Start and Home), Simon Legault Quartet (Misrememberings), the jazz quintet ID, Plants and Animals (Park Avenue), Paul Rossy (Jazz Poetry), and others. At the fall of 2011, with the collaboration of Jonathan Cayer (pianist) and of Catherine K. Laflamme (visual artist), Annie Dominique presented, thanks to a grant given by the Canada Council for the Arts of Longueuil, a highly colourful show, which brought together musical pieces, paintings and the poetry of Pierre ...

In June 2015, the Annie Dominique Quintet released its first album, entitled Tout Autour followed by Rue Langevin, released in September 2017. The members of the jazz elite of Montreal who will participate in this album are Jean-Nicolas Trottier (trombone), Jonathan Cayer (piano), Sébastien Pellerin (double bass), Alain Bourgeois (drums) and Annie Dominique, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, who is the author of the compositions and of the arrangements of all the pieces.

The interpretation and the technique of the instrumentalists are without parallel. The gathering of these professional musicians, who each have a successful career, gives a particular personality to each of these pieces and communicates a strong emotion, thanks to the delicate and precise way that they play the music. Colleagues, friends and companions in everyday life, the correspondence of these musicians is tangible in these albums, which draw their richness from the arrangements and the freedom of expression that is left to each of the performers. Annie’s intuitive talent and her way of composing melodies which seem natural on complex rhythms make her a composer who excels as much in concocting hefty jazz pieces as in composing gliding ballads. She’s known for her modern, pensive and dreamy jazz, marked with beautiful maturity and disconcerting sensitivity.

After the success of the albums, the ensemble participated in several festivals, such as the Montreal OFF Jazz and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The launching of the 3rd album is plan for Spring 2022.

Tout Autour and Rue Langevin albums are available on