Miguel Fenton, who studied music at the Santo Domingo Conservatory and is originally from the Dominican Republic, took instrument making classes and studied in a variety of percussion workshops in Cuba, Haiti and with Alto Moreida (Brazillian Percussion).

In 1975, he was a percussionist with the Santo Domingo music conservatory orchestra, the Dominican folk ballet, and the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival.

Mostly interested in his country’s musical roots, from 1982 to 1985 he lead the Raices band (Jazz and Dominican folklore influenced music) along with many concerts of experimental blends of percussion.



Since his arrival in Montreal, Miguel Fenton performed and has become popular in most of Quebec’’ and ontario’’ festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Coup de Cœur Francophone, Drummondville’s Folk Festival, Cowansville Festival, Toronto’s Hispano Festival and Ottawa’s Festival. He has played percussion with different Latin, African, Haitian, Italien, Latin jazz and commercial bands. In 1997, after many appearances on télévision and radio shows (Radio Canada…) Fenton won the prize for latin percussionist with the best visibility with the Latin and Quebec public. He was a regular guest on téléRitmo, a show about Afro-Dominican folklore and the variety of Latino-American instruments.

He recorded the percussion section for Carlos Ferrand movie CUEVO.



Currently Miguel Fenton represents MEINL percussion instruments. In recognition of his talent, his previous percussion company made a Tambora especially adapted to the artist and they hired him for an advertisement campaign.



In 1989, Miguel Fenton formed the Jazz-Latin band SAINAGUA through which he had the opportunity to work with many talented musicians renowned in the music industry as well as in Quebec’s culture.

In 1994, SAINAGUA won the prize for best jazz-Latin band in Montreal.