Jean Piché

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Jean Piché (born April 21, 1951 in Trois-Rivières ) is a Canadian composer, multimedia artist and music teacher.

Piché studied electroacoustic music at Laval University with Nil Parent and Marcelle Deschênes : he continued his training with Brarry Truax at Simon Fraser University and worked on R. Murray Schafer's World Soundscape Project . He then worked at Stanford University in California and at the Institute for Sound Research in Utrecht. With the tape composition Mer à l'aube he won the 1978 CBC National Competition for Young Composers . The International Tribune for Composers of UNESCO recorded in 1981 his piece Ange made for tape and voice.

From 1985 to 1988 Piché worked for the Canada Council , from 1988 he taught at the Music Faculty of the University of Montreal . In 1990 he was General Director of the Montréal Musiques Actuelles Festival . In the period that followed, numerous electroacoustic works were created, including on behalf of the New Music Concerts , the Vancouver New Music Society and for the Canadian pavilion at Expo 86 . From 1989 he created under the title musiques virtual interactive works for computers and instrumentalists. His first opera Yo Soy la Disentegracion was performed in 1997 by the Montreal company Chants Libres . For his software program Cecilia , he was awarded first prize at the International Music Software Competition in Burgos. Since 2000 he has been working with a synchronized video projection system in his productions and performances.

Works

  • Patchwork (1975)
  • Heliograms (1977)
  • Of Nights and Horses (1984)
  • Twilight Fields (1985)
  • Taxis to Burning Sky (1988)
  • Trois versions de l'affaire for cello and tape (1975)
  • Steal the Thunder for timpani, gongs and tape (recorded 1984 in 1986 with Beverley Johnston )
  • In Vertical Fire for six cellos and tape (1984)
  • Sleight of Hand for oboe and tape (1985)

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SURNAME Piché, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer, multimedia artist and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Trois-Rivières