Jean-Sébastien Côté is a musician

Musician

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 and sound designer based in Montreal

Montreal

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, Canada

Canada

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. Originally a percussionist and accompanist for modern dance

Modern dance

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, he became interested in composing

Dance composition

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 in the early 1990s and began collaborating with various choreographers in Quebec City

Quebec City

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Since 1999, he has been working with Canadian director Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage

Robert Lepage, is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.- Life and work :...

, designing the sound

Sound

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 and / or composing the music

Music

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 for many of his plays like The Blue Dragon, The Andersen Project, The Far Side of the Moon and Zulu Time.

He was also involved in Lepage's foray into other art forms: cinema

Film

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 (The far side of the moon), opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 (1984 (opera)

1984 (opera)

1984 is an opera composed by the American conductor Lorin Maazel, with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan. The opera is based on George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It premiered on 3 May 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in a production directed by Robert...

) and dance

Dance

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(Eonnagata).

He received a Gascon-Roux award for his work on The Andersen Project in 2006.

According to his website, he's currently working on a recording project that should be released in 2009.