Jean-Michel Blais

jean-michel blais is a pianist-composer-performer based in montreal.

growing up in rural quebec, blais only belatedly began to strum on the family organ, before taking up composition, then piano lessons. he performs at masses, weddings and funerals. gifted with a natural talent, he entered the conservatory of music in trois-rivières where he began training as a classical pianist. the constraints of this limit him, while he begins to gravitate around improvisation and experimentation. he therefore left the institution for the trip, thus interrupting his musical journey.