Walter Boudreau, (born 1947 in
Sorel) is a
Canadian
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composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
,
saxophonist
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and
conductor. In 1969, he founded the group
L'Infonie with
Raoul Duguay __NOTOC__
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, which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988, he has been the artistic director of the
Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
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in Montreal. He was a principal collaborator in the
Symphonie du Millénairewhich took place in Montréal in 2000. In May 2015 Boudreau received a
Governor General's Performing Arts Award
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, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
Teachers
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Serge Garant
Albert Antonio Serge Garant, (September 22, 1929 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of ''Musique de notre siècle'' on Radio-Canada.
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Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer.
Biography
Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...
*
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" ...
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Bruce Mather
Bruce Mather (born May 9, 1939) is a Canadian composer, pianist, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music. One of the most notable composers of microtonal music, he was awarded the Jules Léger ...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Gilles Tremblay
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Iannis Xenakis
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Films
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La Nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970
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, 1971
*
L'Infonie inachevée, 1972
* Fanfares, 1988
Awards
* 1982 -
Prix Jules-Léger
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* 1998 -
Prix Opus
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: compositeur de l'année
* 2003 -
Molson Prize
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* 2004 -
Prix Denise-Pelletier
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* 2013 - Knight of the
National Order of Quebec
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* 2013 - Member of the Order of Canada
* 2015 -
Governor General's Performing Arts Award
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* Grants from the
Canadian Arts Council
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* National Young Composers Competition (Radio-Canada)
See also
*
Music of Canada
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*
List of Canadian composers
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A
*John Abram (b ...
References
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21st-century classical composers
Canadian classical composers
Male conductors (music)
Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music winners
Prix Denise-Pelletier winners
1947 births
Living people
People from Sorel-Tracy
Canadian saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Knights of the National Order of Quebec
Members of the Order of Canada
Canadian male classical composers
Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century Canadian conductors (music)
21st-century Canadian male musicians