Victor 'Vic' Stefan Vogel, LLD, PhD (Concordia) (born August 3, 1935) is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, trombonist and conductor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Born Viktor Stefan in Montreal, he studied piano with Michel Hirvy. Vogel has written, arranged and conducted music for ceremonies at Expo 67, the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the Canada Games in 1985 and for the half-time events at the Grey Cup in 1981 and 1985. For the Olympics he arranged welcoming and theme songs from excerpts of works by André Mathieu.[1]
He's the only musician who has played twenty years in a row at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, playing concerts with Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Jerry Mulligan, Slide Hampton, Cannonball Adderley, Chucho Valdés, Oliver Jones and Mel Torme.[2]
In 2007, he was the subject of the feature-length documentary film, "The Brass Man" (L'homme de Cuivre).
On November 1, 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Music from Concordia University.