Walter Boudreau

Walter Boudreau CM CQ (* October 15, 1947 in Montreal ) is a Canadian composer and saxophonist.

Boudreau studied piano and later saxophone with Doug Michaud. At the age of fifteen, he became a member of a jazz band under Arthur Romano. In 1966 he founded his own band in Montreal. With appearances during Expo 67 in the youth pavilion he met Raoul Duguay know. With this and members of the Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec, he founded in 1968, the group Infonie, a multimedia ensemble of 22 musicians that played a mix of classical music, pop and contemporary music.

In parallel, he studied from 1968 to 1970 music analysis at Bruce Mather at McGill University and from 1969 to 1973 composition with Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatory of Montreal and Serge Garant at the University of Montreal. He attended summer courses in 1971 with Pierre Boulez in Cleveland and in 1972 was a student of Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis during the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

Since 1972, the group met Infonie to as an octet. During his studies in Xenakis in Paris in 1973-74 he formed the group in the Quatuor de saxophones de l' Infonie. The group that played a mostly contemporary repertoire, has appeared at the World Saxophone Congress in 1970 in Chicago and in British Columbia (1981 ), in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto and played in radio and television broadcasts of the CBC. Since 1982, the group worked as Montreal Saxophone Quartet ( with Simon Stone René Masino, David Clark and Boudreau ).

Boudreau 1973 won the first prize in the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers with Variations I. In 1982, the Canadian Music Council the Jules Léger Prize awarded him for L' Odyssée du soleil. As a member of the Groupe des Sisses (next to Michel -Georges Brégent, Michel Gonneville, Denis Gougeon, Alain Lalonde and John Rea ), he participated in community compositions such as La Folia (1984) and Musique des jardins sans complexe (1987). In 1991 he received for Golgot (h ) a the Grand Prix Paul Gilso.

Since 1988, Boudreau was the artistic director and principal conductor of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec ( SMCQ ), 1990-1993 Composer-in- Residence at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. With Denys Bouliane he headed from 1998 to 2000, the Festival Musiques au présent of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. Under her leadership, was also the premiere of the Symphonie du millénaire, a monumental joint composition of nineteen musicians instead. 2003, he was back with Bouilane, the first international Nouvelles Musiques festival of Montreal. In 2003 he was awarded by the Canada Council Molson Prize with the for the Arts.

Works

  • Pain - beurre for five voices, piano, percussion, tape, feedback and synthesizer, 1969
  • Soundtrack to La Chambre blanche, 1970
  • Soundtrack to Les sauvages Maudits, 1970
  • Ubiquital I for instrumental ensemble, 1971
  • Ysengouronnie for speaker, instrumental ensemble and tape, 1971
  • Ubiquital II and III for instrumental ensemble, 1972
  • Soundtrack to L' Infonie inachevée, 1972
  • Une nuit en soundtrack to Amérique, 1973
  • Soundtrack to Réjeanne Padovani, 1973
  • Variations for instrumental ensemble, 1973
  • Soundtrack to Ultimatum, 1974
  • Variations II ' Dans les champs il ya des bibittes ' for soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1974
  • Coffre I for soprano, four saxophones and drums, 1975
  • Coffre II ' Le Cercle Gnostique II' for twelve votes, Ondes Martenot, three percussionists, string quartet and instrumental ensemble, 1975
  • Morceaux for string quartet, 1976
  • Coffre III ' Le Cercle Gnostique I' for soprano, flute and guitar, 1977
  • Les Sept jours for eight percussionists, 1977
  • L' Odyssée du soleil ' Le Cercle Gnostique III' for eight wind instruments, 1978
  • Amon- Râ ' Le Cercle Gnostique V' for five ondes Martenot, 1979
  • I Incantations ' Le Cercle Gnostique IV' for saxophone quartet, 1979
  • Demain les étoiles ' Le Cercle Gnostique VI' for twelve saxophones, 1980
  • Contact- itinéraires ' Le Cercle Gnostique VII' for wind quintet, 1981
  • La Toc ' Le Cercle Gnostique VIIa ' for twelve percussionists, 1981
  • Carrousel constellations ' Le Cercle Gnostique VIII ' for flute, cello, two pianos and percussion, 1982
  • Cocktail Music ' Musiques entre 5 et 7' for alto saxophone and percussion, 1983
  • Voyage au center du soleil ' Le Cercle Gnostique IX ' for eight wind instruments and percussion, 1983
  • Incantations III ' Le Cercle Gnostique IXa ' for ten wind instruments, 1984
  • Incantations IV ' Le Cercle Gnostique IXb ' for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, 1984
  • Lente ré concentrée ré à la Boudrini ' La Folia ' for bagpipes, horns, two drummers and three Strings, 1984
  • Les Planètes ' Le Cercle Gnostique IXa ' for piano, 1984
  • Chaleurs, ballet for saxophone quartet and tape, 1985
  • Incantations V ' Le Cercle Gnostique IXc ' for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello, 1985
  • Incantations Va ' Le Cercle Gnostique ixT ' for seven violins, two violas, two cellos and double bass, 1986
  • Hommage à sainte Cécile, 1986
  • Berlin moments for orchestra, 1988
  • Versus for four wood - and four brass, piano and three percussionists, 1988
  • Wallongement for four wood and three brass and two synthesizers, 1988
  • Golgotha ​​, 1991
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Canadian Composer
  • Saxophonist
  • Knight of the Ordre national du Québec
  • Member of the Order of Canada
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1947
  • Man
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