Adam Johnson earned a doctorate in performance (piano) from the Université de Montréal and a diploma in orchestral conducting from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. After three seasons with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, serving as Conductor-in-Residence and then Associate Conductor, he went on, from 2016 to 2019, to occupy the position of Assistant Conductor and later Conductor-in-Residence with the OSM. In 2015, Adam Johnson received the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting conferred by the Canada Council for the Arts. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Québec, Trois-Rivières, Edmonton, Calgary, Thunder Bay and Saskatoon symphony orchestras, and with Symphony Nova Scotia.

TorQ Percussion Quartet is Canada's premiere percussion ensembles and consistently brings new vitality to percussion repertoire and performance in every situation and opportunity. Renowned for their engaging performances, Richard Burrows, Adam Campbell, Jamie Drake and Daniel Morphy are committed to making percussion music accessible to audiences that span generations and as The Toronto Star states "[TorQ] can stand proud among the growing throng of chamber percussion ensembles around the world." Since their formation in 2004, they have performed across Canada and have seen major inroads into the United States with extensive tours in Alaska, Washington, Idaho and residencies in Ohio and Michigan. Richard Burrows holds both a Masters of Arts in Music Education and a Masters of Music in Performance Percussion. He plays regularly with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and is Artistic Director at Open Ears Festival in Kitchener-Waterloo. Adam Campbell explores contemporary repertoire and world music. He is a member of Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan and Persian/Serbian fusion group Ladom Ensemble, as well as a highly versatile freelance drummer. Jamie Drake holds  Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Toronto. He plays regularly with the Mississauga Symphony and Mississauga Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to being a very active drummer and a founding member of indie group Muskox. Daniel Morphy is an avid orchestral and chamber musician who plays with several of Toronto’s most highly respected ensembles. Always busy with new projects, he is currently working to develop solo repertoire for the marimba.

After training in music and theatre during the 1990s, Louis-François began his career as head, for more than a decade, of Le Petit TUM, a children’s theatre troupe with the Université de Montréal. In this capacity, he adapted, wrote and directed a great number of productions for young audiences. After training in film screenwriting (2005) and animated production screenwriting (2007), he has devoted himself mainly to writing scripts. His name has since appeared in the credits of some forty television productions aired on Canal D, Historia, Canal Vie, TV5, RDI, addikTV and Radio-Canada. His scriptwriting work for the series Une vue sous les étoiles earned him a nomination for a 2021 Prix Gémeaux. A writer for La nature selon Boucar, Ma grand-mère disait and Les faiseux de rire broadcast on ICI Radio-Canada Première, he also co-authored with Boucar Diouf the staged performances Pour une raison X ou Y (nomination for Author of the Year—Les Olivier 2014), Un Noël métissé serré (presented in collaboration with the OSM) and Magtogoek, le chemin qui marche. He is delighted to be revisiting the performance Ensemble, à tout coup!, which he wrote and directed in 2018, and for which the OSM received an Opus Award in the categor Youth Production of the Year.

Moroccan-born Montrealer Manal Drissi studied Communications at the University of Ottawa before embarking on a career as a freelance columnist and subsequently forging a path to radio and television. Since 2015, she has created a prominent place for her work, both on the web and in traditional media, writing on various societal and timely issues. Her commentary can be heard or read on Plus on est de fous plus, plus on lit, Gravel le matin, La soirée est (encore) jeune, and in Journal Métro, Châtelaine, and La Presse. Manal Drissi is currently in the process of writing a television series.