Steve Barakatt

For more than three decades, award-winning composer, pianist, singer, producer, creative director Steve Barakatt, C.Q. has been achieving hundreds of projects in collaboration with the best artists, record labels, studios, brands and corporations around the world. A true artist-entrepreneur-philanthropist, Steve is both an inspired creator and an inspiration for others. As a concert pianist, Barakatt has presented more than 500 live performances on five continents. As a recording artist, he sold more than 5 million albums worldwide. He had artistic collaborations with Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic Choir, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Yaroslavl philharmonic Orchestra, Lahti Sinfonia, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre métropolitain, Radio Nacional de Espana, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, El Sistema, Angelique Kidjo, Natasha St-Pier, Nana Mouskouri, Maxim Vengerov, The Alexandrov Choir, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Yoav Talmi, Christian Vásquez, Richard O’Neill, Shirley Bassey, Leon Lai, Alan Tam, Kelly Chen, Daniel Chan, Agnes Chan, Sincere, Yoko Oginome, Miri Ben-Ari, Noriko Sakai, Audrey De Montigny, Sun Min, Wheesung, John Park, Shayne, Chen of EXO, Lee Dong Woo, Yesung of Superjunior, Sunny of Girls’ Generation, Luna of fx, Wendy & Seulgi of Red Velvet, Taeil & Doyoung of NCT127. In 2021, he was named Knight of National Order of Quebec.