His music, with its features of Impressionism, jazz and popular music, has both a Romantic and a contemporary side. However, this combination does call not upon avant-garde or experimental trends. Payette prefers accessibility to cerebral technique. His compositions are the reflection of his spontaneous need to communicate with the public emotions first and foremost. His music takes listeners on a journey of melancholy, passion, exuberance, reflecting all the facets of the composer’s personality, and the touching and accessible nature of the music makes it ideally suited to reach a broad spectrum of listeners. Payette composes music of substance that could encourage people everywhere to attend concerts more regularly. His goal is to create a bridge between classical music and audiences in order to give instrumental music its due in popular culture.