Montreal, November 21, 2024 - On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Quasar unveils its digital triptych of art films in a special film screening event, in the company of long-time collaborators and friends. Come and (re)discover Sonia Paço-Rocchia's Ode au Métal, Walter Boudreau's Chaleurs and Thierry Tidrow's Entre Nous in all their splendor in video format, with behind-the-scenes access to the creation of these three landmark shows in Quasar's career, thanks to three short documentaries by filmmakers Simon Roberge and Sagerpreet Singh.

Montreal, October 8, 2023 - Quasar takes off today for its annual European tour, featuring workshops, master classes, the recording of a new work and several concerts.

PARIS, FRANCE

09.10.2023: Saxophone masterclass
Quasar meets students in Claude Delangle's class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris for a saxophone masterclass

Montreal, February 13, 2023 - In celebration of the Conseil québécois de la musique's mention of excellence for our webcast concert CHALEURS, we have decided to make it available again, this time for free on the Vimeo platform, for a limited time only.

The 50-minute concert is available from now until February 20th inclusively. Discover or rediscover this colossal work by Walter Boudreau in an original staging, presented by Quasar in co-production with Groupe Le Vivier on February 18, 2022 in the Espace Orange of the Wilder Building.

Montreal, November 25th, 2022 – On this 28th anniversary of the founding of the Quasar Quartet, we are pleased to announce that we are finalists for two Opus Awards! Our Montreal-Hanover concert, in collaboration with Quatuor Bozzini and Groupe Le Vivier, is nominated in the category "Concert of the Year - Modern, Contemporary Music", while our latest album, Disque Bleu, is nominated in the category "Album of the Year - Contemporary Music, Electroacoustic".

Disque Bleu : Quasar launches a sixth album Made In Quebec

Montréal, June 3rd, 2022 – After promoting it exclusively at the 38th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV), Quasar officially launches their Disque Bleu today on Bandcamp.

On December 15, the Conseil Québécois de la Musique announced its nominations for the Opus Awards Gala of the 2020-2021 season, which will take place on March 6th.

We are very pleased and honored to announce that our latest album De Souffles et de Machines III is one of the finalists in the Album of the Year in the category - Current, Electro-acoustic Music!

Thank you and congratulations to the participants and our collaborators:

composers Jimmie LeBlanc, Georgia Spiropoulos, Annesley Black and Sergej Maingardt;

Big news! Our last four albums – Miroir des vents (2009), Du souffle (2015), De souffles et de machines (2016) and De souffles et de machines III (2021) –  are now available as digital downloads on our Bandcamp page for $8 CDN apiece. You can now have all of our recordings from the past twelve years on your favourite device.

De souffles et de machines, the first CD from Quasar exclusively dedicated to works for saxophones and electronic devices has just been launched on the DAME label (collection qb).

Available online on the site of DAME

With works by: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Pedro Rebelo, André Hamel and Wolf Edwards

After recording last Spring, we are now at the editing stage. Here we are at Studio 270 with composer Philippe Leroux who came to help out on his piece Du souffle. We're looking forward to presenting this new CD which will be released next December on the DAME label (qb collection).