suzannechante Jazz standards

Bio

From classical trumpet and french opérettes to pop music in Quebec City and jazz in Montreal

Suzanne Tremblay has been in love with music since her early childhood, which she spent in Saguenay, Quebec.

As a young girl she studied trumpet there and within a few years went on to play French horn in the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Baie, while at the same time being a singer in a Saguenay lyrical theatre group. Moving on, she joined a local pop band and was for ten years their front singer.

The band was successful enough, and their claim to fame was to perform, for three years in a row, at the celebrated salle de spectacle of the Capitole in Québec City, which in those days held the annual Centraide (a charity organisation) benefit concert. Also, that's were she met her companion guitarist Daniel Lapierre.

Suzanne has been singing jazz standards with a passion since 2005. She performed at some of the best jazz venues in Montreal, amongst them the Cabaret Lion d’Or, the Petit Medley, the Pharaon Lounge and the Butte St-Jacques. She enjoys performing at private soirées and corporate events as well.

Suzanne, mother of two young adolescents, presently works in Montreal and shares with her companion and guitarist Daniel Lapierre her passion for music. In June 2008, she recorded her first album, Beautiful Love, a collection of classy jazz standards.

Jazz goes Saguenay, then back to Montreal

During the summer of 2006, on an invitation from drummer Pierre Tanguay, she performed at a jazz seminar for the Camp Musical du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, There, Suzanne had the opportunity to play with some of the finest jazz musicians of Quebec.

They joined together again in Montreal the next year for a gig at a benefit concert to help research on breast cancer, at the Lion d’Or in November 2007. Every year since then she's been at the forefront of the L Jazz Benefit Concert as organizer and main act of the event.