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Jad Orphée Chami

Jad Orphée Chami is an artist-researcher, composer, and rhapsodist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, originally from Beirut. A recipient of the Antje Bettin Intercultural Fund Award, he was nominated at age 21 for the Iris Award for Best Original Score for *Antigone*, the film that represented Canada at the 92nd Academy Awards and won the Best Canadian Film Award at TIFF. The Foundation SOCAN, which awarded him first place in the Emerging Composers Competition for music for visual media in the documentary category, has also produced soundtracks for award-winning, selected, and widely screened fiction films, documentaries, and animated films in Quebec and internationally.

He embraces the figure of the rhapsode—one who weaves together songs—to make the role of the witness the guiding light of his artistic and methodological approach. Inspired by the methodologies of oral history, he grounds his work in listening, storytelling, and fabulation. Also a performer, he was invited to appear in Tino Sehgal’s iconic work *This Situation*, presented at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

With support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, he is preparing his first EP of French-language songs, blending Levantine jazz with baroque pop, produced by Lewis Lines.