Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal
Registered Name: Orchestre National de Jazz
Business No: 811707173RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and have been issued a charitable registration number.
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The Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal (ONJM): ten to forty-five musicians devoted to the orchestral jazz repertoire.
Founded in 2012, the Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal (ONJM) is a professional, variable-geometry orchestra, from tentet to big band to jazz studio orchestra: ten to forty-five musicians, winds, strings and percussion, depending on the repertoire. Its musicians share a will to explore new, forgotten or neglected territories, often at the crossroads of jazz and classical, popular, contemporary and world music. The orchestra commissions, premieres and records new works, performs the great pages of the orchestral jazz repertoire, and brings them to the widest possible audience.
In fourteen years, the ONJM has given more than 120 concerts, engaged more than 150 musicians and released 11 albums. It has won two Opus Awards from the Conseil québécois de la musique, for Concert of the Year and Album of the Year, and its album Miles Smiles | Wayne Shines (2023) was named one of the year's best Canadian jazz recordings by the Ottawa Citizen.
Guests have included Terence Blanchard, Donny McCaslin, Michael Formanek, John Hollenbeck, Mathias Rüegg and Bendik Hofseth, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Diane Dufresne, Kim Richardson, Malika Tirolien and Elizabeth Shepherd. The orchestra presents a concert series at Place des Arts every season and tours Québec.
Recognized as an Artistic Catalyst by the Canada Council for the Arts, and supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ONJM is a registered charity. Every gift, large or small, helps it commission works from Canadian composers, pay its musicians fairly and keep its concerts affordable.
Other ways to give. The ONJM also accepts, anywhere in Canada, gifts of publicly listed securities — shares, bonds, fund units — through the form on this page: the capital gain is not taxed and the receipt covers the full value. It welcomes bequests and gifts of real estate. In Québec, a cash gift of $5,000 to $25,000 (major cultural gift) qualifies for an additional 25% tax credit. For a bequest, real estate or a major gift, write to Jacques Laurin, Executive Director: jazzanima@gmail.com. Details: onjm.ca/faire-un-don.
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