Alain Cazes
Awarded first prize in tuba and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal (1978), Alain Cazes pursued his studies in the United States with Joseph Novotny, Donald Harry and Ronald Bishop.
In Brazil, he was solo tuba with the Paraïba State Orchestra, member of the Brass-IL Quintet and professor at the Federal University of Paraïba (UFPB). He taught at the Université du Québec in Montreal, the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and the Université de Montréal, where he was in charge of Wind Orchestras, brass department, teaching tuba, chamber music and conducting. A frequent soloist, he has performed the radio "premiers" of several Canadian works for tuba and also lectures on orchestra conducting and brass instruments. He adjudicates regularly at several international Festivals and Competitions. He was also a member of the Summit Brass Council in Colorado. He teaches in summer music camps like the Orford Art Center and the International Brass Symposium of Ascoli Pecino in Italy.
Now solo tuba with the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, he has also performmed with the Montreal Symphony and other orchertras in the world under the direction of conductors such as; Mehta, Dutoit, Decker, Baudo, Foster, Kmura, Muller, Toppilow, Grossmann, Veltri and many others. He is also co-director of the Orchestre Metropolitain Choir.
Alain Cazes, a founding member of the Philharmonie des vents du Québec, is a full time Professor at McGill University where he conducts the Wind Orchestras and teaches Conducting and Chamber Music and act as Chair of the Brass Area. He has written numerous arrangements for a variety of instrumental ensembles, including brass trios, quartets and quintets. Some of those arrangements have been published by GAM. He has written numerous arrangements for wind orchestra and mixed choir. He is also Vice-President of CIME (Centre International de Musique Évangélique).
