Jean-Michaël Lavoie is assistant conductor to the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble. Since September 2003, he has conducted 14 premieres of young Canadian composers. Recipient of a Quebec government Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) grant in 2005, he will soon complete his Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the McGill University Schulich School of Music.
A trained pianist, he recorded recitals in 1999 and 2002 at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur for the Radio-Canada cultural channel radio programme Les Jeunes Artistes. Rehearsal pianist for the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal Choir in 2000 and 2005, he currently holds the same function with the Chœur de la Radio de Radio-Canada.
In January 2006, he was invited by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra to conduct at the Annual Young Composers’ Reading for the Canadian Music Festival. In June 2006, he participated in Entre le chef et l’orchestre, a documentary presented on Mélomaniaques, an ARTV programme.
In 2007, he will conduct McGill University’s large ensembles in Olivier Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum and Denys Bouliane’s Du fouet et du plaisir.
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