Marc Hyland » Biography

Canada, 1960

• Composer

Marc Hyland is a composer and teacher (music analysis) at UQAM. He discovered music in his early teens, studied classical guitar and later completed his studies at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, from 1981 to 1988, where his teachers included the noted composers Gilles Tremblay (composition and analysis), Clermont Pépin (counterpoint, orchestration) and Yves Daoust (electroacoustic music).

His work is nourished by the multiple relationships between poetry and music. Divided between the semantic potential of language and the inexpressible essence of music, his music also struggles between “order” and “chaos”, between “consonance” and “dissonance”… He has been commissioned works by such ensembles as the Quatuor Molinari, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, and the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay Lac-St-Jean. His catalogue mostly comprises works for voice and for small chamber ensembles, which have received performances and been broadcast here and abroad. He collaborates now and again with composer Silvio Palmieri on special projects, art exhibits, musical events and electroacoustic works, notably DADA MUSIK (1995) and Musique en Cage (2002). In November 2004, one of their works was presented in Los Angeles as part of 60x60, a festival organized by Vox Novus.

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