ABOUT THE BAND
The Lakeshore Concert Band, originally created to encourage and promote community music for amateur musicians, young and old, in Montreal and the West Island, gave its first public performance at Expo '67. The Band is now a charitable foundation which, through its concerts and music, raises funds for schools and charitable organizations such as the Gazette Christmas Fund and the West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped, to name only a few. The band also holds a gala concert each year, usually in April or May.
Founded in 1967
The Lakeshore Concert Band (LCB) was founded by Morley Calvert in 1967, and first performed at Expo ’67, the Montreal World’s Fair. It began as an adult education course at Lindsay Place High School in Pointe-Claire, but quickly outgrew those roots and evolved into an independent community band. In the succeeding 50+ years, the band has been based in the West Island of Montreal, and today calls Dorval its home. The group regularly performs throughout the Montreal area, and beyond. During the summer months, it performs outdoor concerts and presents a series of more formal concerts in concert hall venues during the winter. Opportunities are sought to support charitable causes, resulting in concerts at schools, hospitals and fund-raising events.
Over the years, the band has participated in competitions and festivals, both locally and internationally. It has won first prizes in the Senior A division of the Festival des Harmonies du Québec at Sherbrooke on several occasions. In 1991 the band traveled to Norway to participate in the Hamar International Festival for Wind Music, and then in 1993 played in both the International Band Festival in Valencia, Spain, and the World Music Contest in Kerkrade, Holland. A concert tour of England and Scotland was the highlight of the 1996 summer season. In the subsequent two decades, the band continued to achieve great success, and in 2017, the LCB celebrated its 50th Anniversary, a remarkable milestone. Most recently, the band performed a varied program of popular film and musical excerpts at the 2018 Boston Festival of Bands.
Our Director
Trevor Dix
Trevor Dix was appointed Principal Bass Trombonist with the Orchestre Metropolitain in 2001 by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, and has been a faculty member of the Schulich School of Music of McGill University since 2002 acting as a Professor of Trombone and Course Lecturer for the Music Research Department.
He has performed with noted groups such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic in Kuala Lumpur, and under noted conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Eliahu Inbal, Franz Paul Decker, and Kent Nagano.
As an early music specialist he performes on sackbut with the Ensemble Caprice, the Studio Musique Ancienne de Montreal, les Voix Baroque, Pacific Music Works of Seattle, Tafelmusik, and the Montreal Baroque Festival.
Trevor is heard regularly on CBC radio and has recorded for the CD labels Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Atma, Analekta, BIS, CBC, Justin Time, and Nonesuch.
Trevor studied conducting early on with his grandfather Gordon Dix and later at Wilfrid Laurier University under Michael Purves-Smith. As a conductor Trevor held the position of Assistant Director of Music for the 438 Squadron Band of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 2006 until 2022.
Our Director
Trevor Dix
Trevor Dix was appointed Principal Bass Trombonist with the Orchestre Metropolitain in 2001 by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, and has been a faculty member of the Schulich School of Music of McGill University since 2002 acting as a Professor of Trombone and Course Lecturer for the Music Research Department.
He has performed with noted groups such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic in Kuala Lumpur, and under noted conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Eliahu Inbal, Franz Paul Decker, and Kent Nagano.
As an early music specialist he performs on sackbut with the Ensemble Caprice, the Studio Musique Ancienne de Montreal, les Voix Baroque, Pacific Music Works of Seattle, Tafelmusik, and the Montreal Baroque Festival.
Trevor is heard regularly on CBC radio and has recorded for the CD labels Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Atma, Analekta, BIS, CBC, Justin Time, and Nonesuch.
Trevor studied conducting early on with his grandfather Gordon Dix and later at Wilfrid Laurier University under Michael Purves-Smith. As a conductor Trevor held the position of Assistant Director of Music for the 438 Squadron Band of the Royal Canadian Air Force from 2006 until 2022.