2026 | 名古屋市

Introductory lesson in koto, the dragon of Japanese intsruments, from Rei Asai and Grand Master Omiko Asai in Nagoya, Japan

2025 | 東京都

Travelling Japan, attended an inspiring Jazz Manouche jam session with players from Japan, Korea, China, France, and Canada

2025

Swing de mes rêves performs tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli’s music with sold out show at the Jazz Winnipeg concert series

2024 | Live Premiere in the Forest

Quintin presents his neo-baroque chamber works for hurdy gurdy, violin, cello, double bass, and trumpet, performed in a rural Manitoba forest. The series of vignettes weave dreamscapes and recurring themes reminiscent of Slavic folk melodies.

The composition of these works was generously supported by the Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant (2018)

2024

Hurdy gurdy live video from Quintin’s Oroboro Vignettes, in duo with Natalie Bohrn (double bass).

Features Quintin’s animation inspired by Hungarian folkloric textiles.

Filmed by Fairy Ring

2024 | The Glad Suprise Album

Hurdy gurdy playing is featured as a guest artist on 3 tracks on Juno awarded Steve Bell’s album “The Glad Suprise.”

Video release of “Lovers in a Dangerous Time.”

Album release concert held at Burton Cummings Theatre.

2024 | Cook’s Creek, Manitoba

Presents a set of hurdy gurdy medieval and original music with Natanielle Felicitas (cello), and Lindsey Bart (bouzouki, drum)

2024

Quintin’s Jazz Manouche project with Natalie Bohrn (bass) and Eric Roberts (drums) release live video of the classic J’Attendrai

2024

Raine Hamilton video release of trio’s co-written instrumental piece, featuring evocative contemporary dancers Carol-Ann Bohrn and D-Anne Kuby

Watch here

2024

Featured guitarist with Lindsey Bart, at Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra’s performance of Django Reinhardt’s compositions, led by Neil Watson on reeds.

2024 | Spring Tour

String trio tour of British Columbia and Alberta, including the historic Jasper Anglican Church (subsequently lost to the wildfires of July 2024), and Edmonton’s New Moon Folk Club

2023

Honoured to meet the legendary Dorado Schmitt after the Django Festival All Stars show in Winnipeg

2023

Hurdy gurdy with expanded 8-piece chamber ensemble of Matt Foster’s music, arrangements by Julian Beutel. Band includes Suzu Enns and Sean Irvine (woodwinds), Janelle Nadeau (harp), Jason Tait (vibraphone, percussion), Eric Roberts (drums), and Natalie Bohrn (bass). Concert visuals by Carla Hernandez.

2023

Performing hurdy gurdy with Matt Foster duo at workshops, full band concert, and a clandestine campground midnight set.

2023 | A Prairie Christmas Tour

Performing hurdy gurdy and double bass with harpist Janelle Nadeau’s holiday music tour in Manitoba and Alberta.

Featured Quintin’s hurdy gurdy suite of 1700s French baroque noëls‍.

2023 | Kleine Orgelmesse

Double bass performance of Joseph Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, Hob. XXII:7, Novello 8 with choir, organ, and string quintet led by Mel Braun and Lottie Enns-Braun in Winnipeg, MB

2023 | International Showcase

Performing double bass with Raine Hamilton String Trio, and as guest accompanist for Cape Breton fiddler Brad Reid, in Kansas City, Missouri.

2023

Double bass on Raine Hamilton‍ live videos surrounded by Candice Tremblay’s greenware pottery, Over the Mountain and Try.

2023 | Summer Tour

6 date tour with Casati in Saskatchewan and Alberta

2022 | East Coast Tour

Performing with Raine Hamilton String Trio (w/ ASL interpretation) in Saint John & Fredericton, New Brunswick, and closing the tour out at the historic Kings Theatre, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.

2022 | Grand Opening

Quintin’s quartet performs original compositions and arrangements for hurdy gurdy and strings at the grand opening events of The Leaf, Winnipeg, MB

2022

Quintin’s recorded hurdy gurdy is featured in the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s production of Dumas’ classic swashbuckler, with sound design by Daniel Roy.

2022

After a summer of busking at Riding Mountain National Park, Natalie Bohrn (bass), Eric Roberts (drums) and Quintin perform his original hurdy gurdy compositions and Jazz Manouche repertoire

2022

Hurdy gurdy with Matt Foster band at Good Will Social Club

photo by @jsenftphotography

2022

Solo Hurdy Gurdy (Garden Version) live video from Quintin’s Oroboro Vignettes

Filmed by Fairy Ring

2021

Released original arrangement of Léo Delibes’ famous duet from the opera Lakmé, with Quintin on hurdy gurdy and double bass, and Natanielle Felicitas on cello.

Featured in video performance celebrating The Leaf, alongside contortionist Alexandra Evsigneeva

2021 | Winnipeg Folk Festival Livestream

Guest guitarist with Juvel at Folk in the City livestream concert filmed at Burton Cummings theatre, Winnipeg.

Includes performance of Quintin’s composition Budapest Waltz

2021 | Casati at Culture Days

Quintin’s composition Train is heard echoing on repeat through Winnipeg’s exchange district, as part of Jazz Winnipeg’s multi-media public art installation.

Event features live contemporary dance and projected tableaux by filmmakers Mike Maryniuk, Leslie Supnet, and Hugh Conacher

2021

Hurdy gurdy arrangement of Romani anthem inspired by Hungarian Romani vocalist Margit Bangó, airs on DIKH TV (Hungary) celebrating International Romani Day. With Lindsey Bart (guitar) and Daniel Koulack (double bass).

Watch here

2019 | Summer Tour

11 date tour through Alberta and Saskatchewan, promoting This Is Just To Say album release

2018

Quintin and Casati take a lesson from Jazz Manouche guitar expert Dennis Chang, who later joins their Montreal concert performing an opening set

2018 | Eastern Canada Tour

12 date tour through Ontario and Quebec

2018 | Summer & Fall Tour

Playing double bass and hurdy gurdy with the String Trio in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.

Including Atlin Music Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, Butchart Gardens, and Live from the Rock (Red Rock, ON)

2018 | Spring & Summer Tours

Spring Home Routes Tour - Alberta Route includes 12 shows

8 date summer tour in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta

2018

Casati releases live concept video of instrumental, featuring meticulously hand rotoscoped animation (by Grace and Quintin) and dreamy vintage visuals, filmed by Nicole Magne

2017 | London, England

A dream come true having a lesson with renowned hurdy gurdy master Nigel Eaton

Generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council

2017 | Basel, Switzerland

Hurdy gurdy lesson with virtuoso and JS Bach expert Tobie Miller

Generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council

photo by Randall Cook

2017 | Vienna, Austria

Inspiring 2 day lesson with versatile and inventive hurdy gurdy master Matthias Loibner

Generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council

photo by Ansgar Bolle

2017 | Fall Tour

12 date tour through Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta

2017

Casati releases whimsical self-created stop-motion lyric video. A labour of love, the mixed-media video took 7 months to complete combining thousands of individual photographs, video footage and hand animation.

2017 | Spring Tour

Western Canada tour promoting There Will Be Days album, with 12 shows in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan

2016

Thrilled to have a lesson with the innovative and exploratory hurdy gurdy player Ben Grossman in Toronto

photo by Justine Latour

2015

During Winnipeg’s winter Festival du Voyaguer, met for a backstage intro lesson in hurdy gurdy from the great Nicholas Boulerice (Le Vent du Nord)‍

2010

Sat in on introductory workshop in vielle à roue by France’s renowned virtuoso Gilles Chabenat in St. Boniface, Winnipeg

photo by Roland Melin