Yves Nadeau

YVES NADEAU - Guitarist/Composer www.yvesnadeau.com

Yves Nadeau got a bachelor’s degree in musical interpretation from theUniversité de Montréal in 1991, and has been dividing his time between hiscareer as a professional musician and teaching music at College Marie-Victorin.

Yves has been on the professional music scene since 1986 alternately as astudio musician, arranger, composer, producer, and bandleader. He hasworked on different projects with musicians like LARRY CORYELL, TERRYCLARKE, Alain Caron, Michel Donato, James Gelfand, Paul Brochu, Jean-PierreZanella, André Leroux, Frédéric Alarie, Muhammad Abdul Al-Khabyyr, andFrançois Cousineau. Yves has also been appearing at JAZZ FESTIVALS allacross Canada, in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg,Montreal, Rimouski, Quebec City… either as leader of his own group or asaccompanist for artists such as Oliver Jones, Carol Welsman, Paolo Ramos,Rémi Bolduc… to name but a few. On the popular music scene, he has playedwith world renown French and Canadian stars Patricia Kaas, Natasha St-Pier,Michel Rivard, Nanette Workman, Isabelle Boulay, and Bruno Pelletier. Yveshas participated in a great number of recordings (radio, television, andalbums), and has traveled to many countries on international tours (France,the Netherlands, Egypt, Israel, Senegal, Kenya, Haiti, and the US).

In 2001, Yves founded his group Yves Nadeau Expression, a band of 8musicians. A grant from the CANADA COUNCIL OF THE ARTS made it possiblefor Yves to record the group’s first album, Tableaux, which has been availablesince June 2003.

Yves has played with CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’s “La Nouba” in Orlando, Florida fromDecember 2004 to january 2008.

In May 2009, he played with Larry Coryell the America's premiere of 'Sentenza Del Cuore' a concerto for two guitars and orchestra composed by the jazz guitar legend. Later, he had again the opportunity to share the stage with Coryell at The Montreal Jazz Festival with the Band Bombay Jazz and the great Indian Bansouri player Ronu Majumdar.