DAVID BRONGO
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David Brongo

Percussionist / Educator / Researcher

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Multi-percussionist based in Montreal, David Therrien Brongo has a career as a performer, educator and researcher. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Fourth Prize (Guy Soucie Prize) at the prestigious Concours Prix d'Europe 2021. He is principal percussionist of Ensemble Paramirabo and principal timpanist-percussionist of Orchestre de l'Agora and of Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean as well as co-artistic director of Duo AIRS. David Brongo regularly performs with the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Sixtrum and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (ECM +). Active on the international scene, David has performed in England, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France and across Canada. Holding degrees from the University of Montreal and the Superior School of Music of Catalonia in Barcelona, he is now pursuing his doctoral studies at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. His researches are funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).  David Therrien Brongo is an artist endorser of Dream Cymbals and Gongs.

Upcoming events

February 3rd to 5th, 2023
Orchestre de l'Agora - L'enfant et les sortilèges

Théâtre Paradoxe
Montreal, Quebec
Works by Maurice Ravel

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February 10th, 2023 | 7:30 MPM
McGill Wind Orchestra
Pollack Hall, McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
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Percussion Concerto by Jennifer Higdon

News

February 1st, 2023
David Therrien Brongo won the position of Principal Timpani and  Percussion with the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean at an audition held on January 25, 2023.

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October 19, 2022
David Therrien Brongo has been invited to give a lecture-recital as part of the Percussion Sessions of the TROMP Percussion Festival in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. He will present works by Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Patrick Giguère, Nicolas Gilbert and Michel Longtin.​
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August 29th, 2022
Invited by the McGill Wind Orchestra, David Therrien Brongo will perform Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto on February 10th, 2023 in Montreal.

June 6th, 2022
David Therrien Brongo is joining the PARMA Recordings/Ravello Records family for the release of hi debut solo album in Spring 2023. The project will feature pieces for solo multi-percussion by composers such as Claude Vivier, Fausto Romitelli, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Kaija Saariaho and a new work by Patrick Giguère.

January 4th, 2022
David Therrien Brongo was named Personality of the Year in the field of culture by the newspaper L'Action.
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December 1st, 2021
In June 2022, David Therrien Brongo will be teaching percussion at the Domaine Forget International Academy of Music and Dance.
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Piece: Golfi d'ombra (1993)
Composer : Fausto Romitelli
Montreal, October 9th 2019

An absolutely demented drumming.
- Pest Webzine
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