Juan Olivares

Puerto Rican-Canadian clarinetist Juan Gabriel Olivares is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and music educator. He has performed as a principal with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, featured soloist with the Canadian Opera Company, and is Co-Founder of the interdisciplinary arts collective, New Art / New Media. Juan has toured France with the Ulysses Ensemble and Ensemble InterContemporain, toured Canada with Thin Edge New Music Collective, toured Germany and Austria with the Klangspuren Festival hosted by Ensemble Modern, and was featured guest artist at the Newport Jazz Festival 2019. His work on ‘AYRE live’ with Miriam Khalil and Against the Grain Theatre was nominated for a 2018 Juno Award.