Bio

Like a rickety cart cheerfully making its way on the highway, Sylvain Picard's music stands out. Keeping far from trends and social media FOMO, his compositions are moments of transcendence, slowness; of humanity in its vulnerabilities and wonders.

A guitarist who received jazz training from which he is still recovering, Sylvain Picard has five albums to his credit.

As a passionate composer, he created the music for the documentary series Ramaillages (NFB). He was invited to produce and mix about twenty symphonic demos to facilitate the collaboration between French hip-hop group IAM and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM). In 2024, he was solicited to produce, mix, and arrange Atiku (featuring Shauit).

Alongside his activities as a composer, mixer, and producer, he provides training on discoverability from a metadata perspective (notably with ADISQ).

With a degree in jazz composition and arrangement, Sylvain was trained in mixing by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, David Bowie, Travis Scott, etc.) and Rob Heaney (Les Colocs, Rufus Wainright, Daniel Bélanger). In jazz, Sylvain studied with Peter Bernstein among others.

When he's not in the studio or on stage, he runs on mountaintops.