Musician, violinist, singer and composer, born in Trois-Rivières to a Polish father CZESLAW…read moreKACZYNSKI, pianist and conductor, he was the founder of the Quebec Conservatory of Music in Trois-Rivières, and an American mother MARY PHILLIPS-MALTAIS, opera singer and poet. In 1977, Charles was a member of the group CONVENTUM with the release of the album "A l'affut d'un complot" and a tour with the group in Massy-Palaiseau, France. He released his solo album in 1979 "Lumière de la nuit" with the help of a grant in 1978, of $4000. from the Canada Council for the Arts. He received a second grant in 1998 from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec of $6,700. for the composition of folk-inspired music from the Gaspé Peninsula. He released a second solo album in 2002 "5 Sens" accompanied by DAWOOD KHAR on tablas. 2002-2007, he was part of COMPAGNIA FINZI PASCA and CIRQUE ÉLOIZE as a violinist singer and composer for the show "Nomade", with more than 700 shows around the world. In 2005, he received the GEMINI award for the best performance in an Art program for the film "Nomade". In 2008, he gave a performance at the FESTIVAL MUSIQUE DU BOUT DU MONDE AZENTIC in Gaspé, with the help of a third grant he received from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec of $6,750. and from the Conférence régionale des élus de la Gaspésie-Iles de la Madeleine, also of $6,750. In the same year, he gave a performance at the MONTREAL PROGRESSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL, at the Pierre Mercure Hall, at the Pierre-Péladeau Center in Montreal. On November 29, 2014, he gave a violin performance singing alone for the first part of Genesis and Steve Hackett at the Wilfred Pelletier Hall of the Place des Arts in Montreal.