Duo Duval-Boulanger

The Duval-Boulanger duet is made up of Jean Duval on flute and David Boulanger on the fiddle. Meeting informally for many years in the Québécois traditional music circle in Montreal, they decided in the spring of 2009 to form a duet with the objective of recording a CD of instrumental music comprising both gems of the traditional repertoire and their own compositions. With Pièces sur Pièces, they now can share their music with traditional music lovers from different horizons as well as in concerts and festivals.

Jean Duval

Jean Duval is a pioneer of flute playing for traditional music in Quebec. He has been involved in Québécois, Irish and Scottish traditional music circles in North-eastern North America since the early 1980s. Composer and multi-instrumentalist, he was a member of Phenigma from 1990 to 1995.  In 2004, he made a CD of Twelve suites in traditional style for one-handed tin whistle. He recently left his career as an agronomist to devote himself to a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at University de Montréal on the crooked tunes of the traditional music of Quebec.

David Boulanger

David Boulanger has been active on the Québécois traditional music scene for nearly ten years. A devotee to crooked tunes, brandies, Louis « Pitou » Boudreault and Sawmill tuning, David is an active composer for the fiddle and has a lore of peculiar tunes that we can hear at traditional music sessions in Montreal. From 2002 to 2007, he was a member of La Part du Quêteux as a fiddler, feet-tapper and singer. In 2007, he joined the famous group La Bottine Souriante, with which he has been touring Quebec, Canada, United States and Europe. He is presently finishing a degree in music at University of Montreal.