jean-françois breton, marimba

jean-françois breton has been  principal timpanist of the thunder bay symphony orchestra since april 2006. he is also percussion instructor and a sessional lecturer at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . jean-françois made his percussion debut in québec city and attained his bachelors of music from the université de sherbrooke. he then pursued his studies at indiana university where he earned a masters in percussion performance under the tutelage of anthony j. cirone, gerald carlyss, and craig hetrick. other prominent teachers include mario boivin, steve houghton, tom freer, william linwood, and jean-normand yadeluca. jean-françois was a participant in the national academy orchestra in 2001 and the symphony orchestra academy of the pacific in 2004.

as a soloist, he has played with the orchestre symphonique des jeunes de sherbrooke and the indiana university symphonic band. in 2005, jean-françois won both the second prize in the osm standard life concerto competition and a full scholarship to the banff centre for the arts.  as a member of the montréal-based fusion quartet, jean-françois recorded bartok's sonata for two pianos and two percussion for cbc radio in 2004.