About Lüz

// Lüz Studio is an up-and-coming Montreal company specializing in visual design including lighting, set design, and video. Since its beginnings in 2005, the team has worked on a number of major concerts and corporate events such as Musicman by Gregory Charles and Canadian Music Week, as well as overseeing graphic design for the Formula 1 Grand Soir in Montreal. They also designed the lighting for Cirque du Soleil’s ’Wintuk’ show in New York and won a Middle East Lighting Design Award in 2008 for their work on Chantal Chamandy’s ’A Night at the Pyramids’ concert, recorded in Egypt for PBS.

Awards

  • GRAFIKA CONTEST 2011
    Winner of the Special Events’ Design Price for L’OSM éclatée (MUTEK)
  • ADISQ AWARDS 2011
    Nominated for Lighting Designer of the year for the show Americana (Roch Voisine)
  • ADISQ AWARDS 2010
    Nominated for Lighting Designer of the year for the show Musicman (Just for Laughs)
  • PARNELLI AWARDS 2008
    Nominated for Lighting Designer of the Year for the show A Night at the Pyramids (Chantal Chamandy)
  • MIDDLE EAST LIGHTING DESIGN AWARDS 2007
    Winner of the Lighting Designer of the Year in the Temporary Installations Category for A Night at the Pyramids (Chantal Chamandy)
 

Our team

  • Matthieu Larivée
    Visual Designer
    About Matthieu
     
    Sound: louder!
    Color: uv
    Wallpaper: my son and my girlfriend having fun
    Expression: always and never
    Obsession: awful word play
    Super hero: teachers who deal with classes of 30+ kids
    At midnight: sleeping!
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  • David Rondeau
    Lighting Director
    About David
     
    Sound: loud
    Color: green
    Wallpaper: technical stuff
    Expression: count on you, it will work
    Obsession: being right
    Super hero: Laurence Guérette…! & Hulk
    At midnight: always awake
  • Marie-Christine Dufort
    Video Director
    About Marie-Christine
     
    Sound: rock’n roll music, Frank Sinatra & anything recorded before the 60s.
    Color: black
    Wallpaper: a beautiful photo by Kim Keever portraying a surreal romantic landscape under an apocalyptic smoky turquoise and pink sky (the technique is as impressive as the picture itself: photographed in miniature through the glass of a water filled aquarium!)
    Expression: "really interesting" or "…but…"
    Obsession: noting and correcting incorrect scaling
    Super hero: can Elvis be considered a super hero?
    At midnight: if I’m not in bed yet, I have a glass of wine in hand (or I’m working on video screens trying to correct the little things, and beeing dazzled/blinded by the light beams of my co-workers)
  • Vincent Lavoie
    Lighting Director
    About Vincent
     
    Sound: prouuuutte
    Color: orange
    Wallpaper: nature
    Expression: thank you for having come
    Obsession: stealing bites from my girlfriend's toast
    Super hero: myself
    At midnight: let's get naked!
  • Laurence Guérette
    Coordinator
    About Laurence
     
    Sound: windswept leaves
    Color: purple!
    Wallpaper: a shrub in bloom that I took in Costa Rica
    Expression: lovin’ it!
    Obsession: opening windows for fresh air (even in winter!)
    Super hero: Professor X from X-Men because of his patience, altruism and strength of character
    At midnight: I’m sound asleep
  • David Lee
    Lighting Director
    About David
     
    Sound: guitar
    Color: fall colours
    Wallpaper: depends on my mood
    Expression: it could be worse
    Obsession: fidgeting fingers which usually leads to drumming
    Super hero: my grandfather
    At midnight: asleep
  • Tina Lise Ng
    Graphic Designer
    About Tina
     
    Sound: TR-808
    Color: flamingo
    Wallpaper: glowing hamburgers
    Expression: Amazing!
    Obsession: looking up cute animals online
    Super hero: Buffy
    At midnight: dreaming