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From Montreal to New York City, French-Canadian trumpeter, composer and producer Rachel Therrien boasts an enviable CV. She is considered one of the most promising jazz musicians, playing a wide variety of musical styles and rhythms.

Winner of the 2015 TD Grand Prize Jazz Award at the renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival, the 2016 Stingray Jazz Rising Star Award and nominated as Best Jazz Producer at the Independent Music Awards 2018, she has shared stages with many world-class musicians in clubs, festivals and on television throughout the Americas and the Caribbean.

Rachel has published four records: Why Don’t You Try (2017), Pensamiento: Colombia (2016), Home Inspiration (2014) and On Track (2011) released both Labels Multiple Chord Music (CA) & Truth Revolution Records (USA). She received stellar reviews from Le Devoir, La Presse, All About Jazz, New York Hot House, Downbeat Editor's Pick, Latin Jazz Corner, just to name a few. For the last few years she has toured as bandleader all over Canada, USA, Europe, Ukraine, Mexico and more, taking on the most prestigious jazz festivals and clubs.

At the moment she is preparing her 5th studio album with her new European Quartet in Paris: VENA will be released by French Label Bonsaï Music in spring 2020. She also continues touring with her Montreal Quintet (which will celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2020); with her New York based Latin Jazz Quartet and very occasionally, she performs Pensamiento : Proyecto Colombia.

« For several years, Quebec-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter Rachel Therrien has been among the most innovative artists operating at the intersection of jazz and world music. Her geographic reach is awe-inspiring, (… ) hones in on the jazzier elements of world music on her fourth album, Why Don’t You Try, offering 11 gripping originals that place groove and improvisation at the forefront. »
By Brian Zimmerman – Downbeat Editor’s Pick

« Why Don’t You Try, Rachel Therrien Quintet (Free Run Artists/MCM), makes a convincing case for Rachel as one of the brightest and most creatively accomplished trumpeters on today’s jazz scene. Her clear, clarion tone and precise articulation, a sound rivaling many first trumpet chair holders in big bands, is matched by a cornucopian fecundity of improvisational strategies and ideas. That she and her bandmates are all Quebecois (French-Canadians) should not be surprising given the global scope of jazz today, but it is. » By George Kanzler – Hot House

Home Base: Quebec