Yves Daoust

Yves Daoust

Yves Daoust (born April 10, 1946 in Longueuil / Québec ) is a Canadian composer.

biography

Daoust received piano training from the age of seven. At the age of sixteen he composed a film score for prepared piano, and at the age of nineteen he completed his first electroacoustic composition. From 1966 to 1971 he studied piano with Irving Heller and composition with Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec , then electroacoustic composition with Alain Savouret , Gilbert Amy and the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges in France.

During his studies in Québec, he wrote film scores for the National Film Board (NFB) together with Maurice Blackburn and Norman McLaren . After his return from France he worked in the NFB recording studios from 1976 to 1979. Since 1978 he has been teaching music analysis and music analysis at the Solfège Conservatory . At the beginning of the 1980s, he initiated the training program for electroacoustic composition here.

Daoust is a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Québec and one of the most prolific composers in the field. At the international competition of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges he received the First and Grand Prix in 1980 and the Euphonie d'Or Prize in 1994 . Daoust works with well-known instrumentalists such as the pianists Anne Barteletti and Manuel Schweizer , the flautist Lise Daoust , the keyboardist Anne Gaudemer , the horn player Louis-Philippe Marsolais and the harpsichordist Catherine Perrin . With Denis Gougeon he wrote two stage works for L'Arsenal de musique .

Works

• Trois fois quatre , 1971
• Tout le monde est d'bonne humeur for tape, 1978
• Quatuor for tape, 1979
• Valse for instrumental ensemble and tape, 1980
• En hommage à Maurice Blackburn , composition for the radio, 1982, 1995
• Petite musique sentimentale for piano and tape, 1984
• Carnaval for actor group and tape, 1984
• Le Monde merveilleux de la musique for clarinet, saxophone, percussion and tape, 1985
• Adagio for flute and tape, 1986
• Fantaisie , composition for the radio, 1986
• Il était une fois… (conte sans paroles) , 1986
• Il était un fois for tape, 1987
• Variations sur un air d'accordéon for tape, actor and accordion, 1988
• Overture for tape, 1989
• Suite baroque for tape, 1989
• L'Entrevue for accordion and tape, 1991
• Water Music for tape, 1991
• Montréal sacré , 1992
• Résonances for tape, 1992
• Impromptu for tape, 1994
• Impromptu for piano, synthesizer, sampler and tape, 1995
• Bruits for tape, 1997-2001
• Planète Baobab for orchestra and live electronics (with D.Gougeon), 1999
• Objets trouvés , 2002
• Le temps fixé , 2004
• Alice for orchestra and live electronics (with D.Gougeon), 2004
• About Time , 2005