François Dompierre
Joseph Eugène Frédéric François Dompierre (born July 1, 1943 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian composer.
Dompierre had piano lessons in Ottawa with Hélène Landry and Noëlla Vaillancourt and organ lessons with Paul Larose . From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec with Françoise Aubut , Clermont Pépin and Irving Heller .
First, Dompierre was known as a singer-songwriter . After an appearance on the TV station CFTM, the LP François Dompierre was created in 1963 . His songs were u. a. Sung by Julie Arel , Pierre Calvé , Christine Charbonneau , Renée Claude , Emmanuelle , Louise Forestier , Claude Gauthier , Pauline Julien , Félix Leclerc and Monique Leyrac . In 1965 he composed and produced the album Il y eut un jour with Stéphane Venne . In 1969, based on a libretto by Michel Tremblay, the musical comedy Demain matin, Montréal m'attend was created .
In 1974 his sonata for Ondes Martenot and piano was premiered and recorded by Sylvette Allard and Théodore Parasquive . From 1975 he worked with Félix Leclerc , for whom he wrote the instrumentation of three albums.
After studying in Paris from 1976–1977, he composed for Claude Garden Harmonica Flash for harmonica and orchestra. In 1978 he conducted a CBC television program with the Orchester symphonique de Montréal and the soloists Édith Boivin-Béluse (piano), Jean-Marie Benoît (guitar), Michel Donato (bass guitar), André Proulx (violin) and Richard Provençal (drums) the first performance of his Concerto in A . Both works were in 1979 with the same team under the baton of Charles Dutoit at the Deutsche Grammophon recorded.
With the album Hors d'oeuvres Dompierre won a Félix Award for instrumental music in 1982 . His Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Angèle Dubeau was premiered at Expo 86 in Vancouver . He also composed the music for the fireworks on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the founding of Montreal.
In addition, Dompierre wrote a large number of film scores.
Discography
- François Dompierre , 1964
- Noël de nos chansonniers , 1964
- Danses carrées du Québec , 1965
- Chansonniers du Canada , 1966
- Intimacy
- Demain matin Montréal m'attend! , 1970
- IXE-13 , 1971
- Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à papa , 1972
- Dompierre , 1974
- Concerto pour piano et orchester , 1979
- Hors-d'oeuvres , 1981
- Domaine Forget, Opus 1 , 1982
- Le matou , 1985
- Les portes tournantes , 1988
- Je m'amusique , 1988
- Les jardins intérieurs , 1989
- Jésus de Montréal , 1990
- François Dompierre , 1991
- Je m'amusique en voyage , 1991
- Mon amie Max , 1994
- L'odyssée d'Alice Tremblay , 2002
- Flash-back , 2007
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dompierre, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dompierre, Joseph Eugène Frédéric François (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottawa |