Walter Boudreau is a much sought after conductor for many Canadian and international ensembles and orchestras. A prolific composer, Walter Boudreau has to date composed more than fifty works, many of which have garnered national and international awards such as: First Prize in the first CBC National Competition for Young Composers (1974), the Jules Léger Prize for new chamber music (1982) and the Grand Prix Paul Gilson of the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française (CRPLF), Paris (1991). For his work as Artistic Director of the Société de musique contemporaine de Québec (SMCQ) (a position held since 1988) Walter Boudreau has received the prestigious Grand Prix 1991 of the Conseil des Arts de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (CACUM).
In 1998, Walter Boudreau was awarded the Prix Opus for Compositeur de l’année (Composer of the Year) by the Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM). Boudreau’s more recent awards include the Molson Prize (June 2003) given by Canada Council for the Arts. From 1990 to 1993, Walter Boudreau was the composer in residence for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and from 1998 to 2000 he served as an artistic co-director (with Denis Bouliane) of the Musiques au présent festival of the Orchestra Symphonique de Québec. In another joint venture with Denis Bouliane, Walter Boudreau served as an artistic director of the Symphonie du millénaire (Millenium Symphony), a collective creation of 19 Montreal composers which united 333 musicians for its premier on 3 June, 2000. The immense success of this latter venture garnered Boudreau a Prix Opus for the Évenement musical de l’année (Musical Event of the Year). With Bouliane, he lauched in March 2003 the first edition of the Montreal/New Music International Festival. To date Boudreau’s music has been performed in Canada, the US, France Belgium, Germany, Poland and Finland.
Born in 1979, Nicolas Gilbert studied composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with composers Michel Gonneville and Serge Provost, and also received training in mandarin Chinese at Nankai University (Tianjin, China), and in Russian at St-Petersburg State University (Russia).
His catalogue comprises about 20 chamber, vocal and orchestral works that have been performed in a number of Canadian cities as well as in the US, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Serbia-Montenegro, Kosovo, Estonia, Russia and China. He has received several grants since 2000, from various arts councils in Québec and Canada as well as from the Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture. In 2003, he was finalist in the Lepo Sumera International Composition Competition and was selected to participate in the 21st Century Young Composers Project (Chicago). He also received prizes for two in the SOCAN young composers competition.
Gilbert has completed commissions for the Trio Fibonacci, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, the Quasar saxophone quartet, the Société Codes d’accès, cellist Benjamin Carat, pianist Kadri-Ann Sumera, and soprano Janice Jackson. His works have also been performed by groups such as the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Kovalis Duo, the Ensemble Alizé, and the Boehm Flute Quartet, among others. Forthcoming projects include commissions for the Kaida Trio (Amsterdam), Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto), clarinettist Thomas Piercy (New York) and Bradyworks (Montreal).
Festival performances include the biennial Musiques en Scène festival (Lyon, 2004), the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (2004), the Prishtina New Music Festival (2004), ICE Fest 2004 (Chicago), the Estonian Music Days (Tallinn, 2003), the Milano Oltro Festival (2003), the Venice Biennial (2002), and BizArt Festival (Shanghai, 2002).
Nicolas Gilbert is currently resident composer at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montreal, and is completing a doctoral degree in composition at McGill University under the supervision of John Rea. Since 2002, he has been president of the Société Codes d’accès, a non-profit organization founded in 1989 and dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music. He recently entered into agreements with the British publisher Edition HH, and some of his earlier works were published by Éditions Jobert (Paris) and Éditions BIM (Vuarmarens, Switzerland).
A composer of both instrumental and electroacoustic music, André Hamel, born in 1955, came to composition through rock music. In the early 1980’s, he began composition studies at the University of Montréal under the direction of Serge Garant, followed by Michel Longtin with whom he finished his Master’s Degree in 1993. Hamel’s music has been heard in Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, and Sofia (Bulgaria). Most of his works has been broadcast by Radio-Canada. In 1985, Hamel was one of the founders of the Société des Concerts alternatifs du Québec (currently, Codes d’accès), which he presided from 1987 to 1990. Preoccupied with the physical space of sound, Hamel also has a passion for “cultural and historical space.” Through his works, Hamel has developed a musical concept, which he calls “polyreality” or “metamusic,” where musical elements which bear little or no relation to each other inhabit the same sound world. He is a member of the composers’ collective Espaces sonores illimités (ESI). Lately, he was awarded the Joseph F-Sataufer Prize from the Conseil des Arts du Canada.
Born in Montreal in 1958, Jean Lesage studied composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montreal with Gilles Tremblay, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux and Yves Daoust. He has also studied organ and harpsichord with Bernard and Mireille Lagacé. He has been a member of the ACREQ and was coordinating the program of the Société des concerts alternatifs du Québec. From 1987 to 1995, he hosted the radio show “Musique actuelle” on Radio-Canada’s FM network. Jean Lesage has been a member of the artistic committee of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec since 1990.
Born in 1979, Maxime McKinley studied composition with Michel Gonneville at the Montreal Conseravtory where he earned the Premiere Prix (with Great Distinction). He studied composition with Isabelle Panneton at the Université de Montréal, where he is completing a doctorate. McKinley also studied in Paris with Martin Matalon. Recently, his works have been performed by the Camerata de las Américas, the Toronto Esprit Orchestra, New Music Concerts, the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (ECM) and the Trio Hochelaga, among others. His music has been performed all over Canada, as well as in France and Mexico, and has been broadcasted on CBC Radio Two and Espace Musique (Radio-Canada). His many awards include five prizes in the SOCAN national competition, and he was selected to participate in the National Arts Centre’s Young Composers Programme and the ECM’s Génération 2006 tour. McKinley has received various grants, including several from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Université de Montréal. He has contributed to various journals, including Circuit and Le Quartanier.
Born in Sherbrooke, Isabelle Panneton studied at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal where she won the first prizes for counterpoint, harmony, fugue and also for musical and composition analysis. She spent three years in Belgium (1984-1987) where she worked exclusively on composition with Philippe Boesmans. She has composed over 20 works that have been broadcasted throughout Québec and abroad. In 1985 she was awarded from the national competition of the SOCAN music chamber prize Voilage has been chosen by the international young composers Tribune in Paris, to represent Canada.
Since 1995, she is teaching as a PhD professor at the Music Faculty of the University of Montreal and also is a member of the artistic committee of the SMCQ since 1996.
Serge Provost studied music at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal, mainly with Gilles Tremblay, and at the Conservatoire National de Paris with Claude Baliff. He also studied composition at the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) during the year 1995/96. He received a special distinction from the Italia Prize in 1993 for L’Adorable verrotière and La Cloche du Temple. He won the Opus Prize for the Year’ musical creation in 1997 from Le Conseil québecois de la musique for Le Vampire et la Nymphomane. Serge Provost is teaching composition and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
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