Gilles Tremblay

Gilles Léonce Tremblay, OQ ( born September 6, 1932 in Arvida / Quebec ) is a Canadian composer and music educator.

Tremblay took private lessons with Jocelyne Binet, Isabelle Delorme, Jean Papineau - Couture and Edmond Trudel and studied from 1949 to 1954 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec with Claude Champagne and Germaine Malépart. He also attended the early 1950s summer courses at the Marlboro School of Music in Vermont and studied music history in 1953 with Jean Vallerand at the University of Montreal.

From 1954 to 1957 Tremblay studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Yvonne Loriod and Olivier Messiaen, at the same time he learned the Ondes - Martenot game in its inventor Maurice Martenot and deepened his knowledge of the electro-acoustic instruments at the Darmstadt summer courses under Karlheinz Stockhausen.

1957-58 he studied counterpoint with Andrée Vaurabourg - Honegger. In the following years he took part in the recordings of the Groupe de recherches musicales under Pierre Schaeffer in part at the ORTF. In 1960 he again visited courses in Darmstadt with Pierre Boulez and Henri Pousseur.

Since 1961, he taught at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. He wrote in the 1960s, manuscripts and music for different transmission ranks of the CBC ( Aroles de poètes, L' Homme américain, festivals). For the music of the Pavilion of Quebec at Expo 67, he received the Prix de musique Calixa Lavallée -.

He was in the following years a member of the juries of several international music competitions, toured and was for twenty years a board member of the Composers' Union of Québec. In 1991 he was appointed an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec.

Works

  • Deux pièces pour piano: ' Phases '' Réseaux, 1956-58.
  • Exercise I, 1959
  • Exercise II, 1960
  • Cantique de durées for seven instrumental groups, 1960
  • Mobile for Violin and Piano, 1962
  • Kékoba for soprano, mezzo- soprano, tenor, percussion and ondes Martenot, 1965
  • Champs I for two pianos and percussion, 1965, 1969
  • Centre- élan, 1967
  • Sonorisation du Pavillon du Québec, 1967
  • Souffles ( Champs II ) for two flutes, oboe, clarinet, horn, two trumpets, two trombones, drums, bass and piano, 1968
  • Verse ( Champs III ) for two flutes, clarinet, trumpet, horn, three violins, double bass and percussion, 1969
  • Dimension Soleils, Film Music, 1970
  • " .. Le sifflement des vents porteurs de l'amour ... " for flute, drums and microphones, 1971
  • Solstices (ou Les jours et les saisons tournent ) for one to four soloists groups, 1971
  • Jeux de solstices for orchestra, 1974
  • Oralléluiants for soprano, flute, bass clarinet, horn, three double basses, drums and microphones, 1975
  • Fleuves for orchestra, piano and percussion, 1976
  • Traçantes for piano, 1976
  • Vers le soleil for orchestra, 1978
  • Compostella I for eighteen instruments, 1978
  • Le Signe du lion, 1981
  • DZEI ( Voies de feu ) for soprano, flute, bass clarinet, piano and percussion, 1981
  • Envoi for piano and fifteen instruments, 1983
  • Envol for Flute, 1984
  • Triojubilus ' À Raphael, for flute, harp and cowbells, 1985
  • Les Vêpres de la Vierge for mixed choir, soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1986
  • Un 9 for two trumpets and drums, 1987
  • Katadrone ( Contrecri ) for orchestra, 1988
  • Cedars s voiles for voice, 1989
  • Musique du feu for Piano and Orchestra, 1991
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