Michel Longtin

Michel Longtin (born May 20, 1946 in Montreal ) is a Canadian composer.

Longtin attended courses in theater studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts from 1962 to 1963 and received a bachelor's degree from the Collège des Eudistes in Montreal in 1967 . He then studied computer science and music with André Prévost . From 1970 he studied at the University of Montreal with Prévost and Serge Garant . He was also a student of Samuel Dolin at the Royal Conservatory of Music and worked at the McGill University electronic music studio with Paul Pedersen , Bengt Hambraeus and Alcides Lanza .

Since 1973 Longtin has taught at the University of Montreal and also at the École Vincent-d'Indy and McGill University. He has received the PRO Canada Award for Young Composers (1971), the Canada Council Prize (1974) and the Canadian League of Composers (1975), and the Jules Léger Prize (1986). His work ranges from chamber music and electroacoustic compositions to the symphonic monumental piece Quaternions (1997), which was performed by the Orchester symphonique de Montréal in 2003 .

Works

• Au Nord du lac Supérieur for tape, 1972
• Embarque, on ira pas vite for tape, 1972
• Le Réveil de Fedhibô for tape, 1972
• La Mort du Pierrot for tape, 1972
• Brandon North for four percussionists, 1973
• Il était une fois for orchestra, choir and tape, 1973
• Soundtrack for Copies conformes , 1973
• Thrène pour Rachel et Dimitri for two flutes, two cellos, harp, piano and two percussionists, 1975
• Le Pèlerin d'Alnéoïl for orchestra, choir and tape, 1975
• Deux rubans noirs III for oboe, clarinet, three cellos and four percussionists, 1976
• Soundtrack for Poids lourds , 1976
• La Trilogie de la montagne for tape, 1977–79
• Soundtrack for Ni scène ni coulisse , 1978
• Migration vers l'automne for string orchestra and two percussionists, 1979
• Le Jeu de l'inventaire , musical theater for wind quintet and actors, 1981
• De Saint-Malo à Bourges par Bouffémont , 1981
• Kata: San Shi Ryu for flute, five percussionists, two cellos and two double basses, 1982
• Film music for Le Bouffe Pétrole , 1982
• Pohjatuuli, hommage à Sibelius for clarinet, two horns, trumpet, trombone, three percussionists and two cellos, 1983
• Lettre d'Étienne à Jacques , 1983
• La route des pèlerins reclus , 1984
• Les Jardins d'hiver for piano, string quartet and percussion, 1985
• Deux rubans noirs pour Serge Garant for piano, 1986
• Autour d'Ainola , 1986
• Lettre de Roxana à Décébal Hormuz , 1987
• Venu de l'est: hiver '44 for percussion, 1987
• Colère: Berlin 61 for percussion, 1989
• Paix en migration for string orchestra and speaker, 1989
• Citortia for chamber orchestra, 1990
• Homage to Euler , 1990
• Sursolitudes , 1994
• Quaternions for symphony orchestra, 1997
• Lettre posthume de Conrad for chamber orchestra, 2000