ABOUT GEOFFROY DOYON

Benefitting from more than 10 years of experience as a professional musician, Geoffroy Doyon is an extremely versatile and complete musician. A drummer, composer, arranger, pianist, teacher and even accordionist on occasion, he succeeds at everything he attempts.

After his studies at the Conservatoire of Trois-Rivières in classical percussions, his training truly began at the Cégep of Trois-Rivières. There, he studied with Sylvain Jalbert, Chantal Simard, Michel Vaillancourt and Yvon Bellemare. It was also during his Cégep years that he first started composing for the ska group Alaska, of which he is a founding member. In 2000, he took part in the prestigious Drum Fest in Montreal, within the context of the Yamaha Showcase. In 2002, he obtained a B.A. in jazz interpretation (drums) at the Université de Montréal. He took advantage of this opportunity to enrich his knowledge with contributions from some of the greatest artists of Québec jazz: Paul Brochu and Camil Bélisle (drums), Ron Di Lauro (Big Band) and Luc Beaugrand (improvisation). Wishing to further deepen his drums “performance” aspect and abilities as a composer, he completed a Master’s degree in jazz interpretation (drums) at McGill University in 2005. There, he rubbed elbows with other greats such as Dave Laing and Michel Lambert (drums), Joe Sullivan (big band and composing). A demo album of 8 original tracks, and a concert at the Pollack Hall on May 12, 2004, with a band of 11 musicians, was the outcome of this degree.

Since then, Geoffroy has been making his niche as a professional drummer with various groups and artists: Guylaine Tanguay, Jon Day, Sophie Tremblay, Raphaël Torr (a tribute to Joe Dassin), Steve Gagné (In the air Tonight a tribute to Phil Collins), Randa Ghossoub, Frédéric Degrandprés, Crampe en masse, and many others.