After the pandemic forced us to take a short break in 2021, the SALT New Music Festival is back at the University of Victoria! Presented by Tsilumos Ensemble in collaboration with Victoria Composers Collective and Quasar Saxophone Quartet, there will be a total of three live-streamed concerts followed by an après-concert discussion session with performers, composers, and audience members. Quasar will participate in two of these three concerts. 

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.

International collaborations are back for Quasar!

Montreal, October 26, 2021 — Only a week after QUÉBEC-PAYS-BASQUE, our concert with Trio Zukan co-produced by the Groupe le Vivier, Quasar flies to Västerås, Sweden, where they will perform the first of a nine-concert series in Europe. There will be some collaborations with European ensembles, workshops and masterclasses, festival entries and many international premieres from Quebec and international composers.

Longues distances is reprogrammed on June 16th 2021 at 7:30 p.m., as a part of the Spring 2021 season of the Groupe Le Vivier, in live streaming!

See the box office for more infos.