Walter Boudreau

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Walter Boudreau CM CQ (born October 15, 1947 in Montreal ) is a Canadian composer and saxophonist .

Boudreau first studied piano and later saxophone with Doug Michaud . At the age of fifteen he became a member of a jazz band under Arthur Romano . In 1966 he founded his own band in Montreal. He met Raoul Duguay while performing at Expo 67 in the youth pavilion . With this and members of the Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec , he founded the group Infonie in 1968 , a multimedia ensemble of 22 musicians who played a mixture of classical music, pop and contemporary music.

At the same time he studied music analysis from 1968 to 1970 with Bruce Mather at McGill University and from 1969 to 1973 composition with Gilles Tremblay at the Montreal Conservatory and with Serge Garant at the University of Montreal . In 1971 he attended summer courses with Pierre Boulez in Cleveland and was a student of Mauricio Kagel , György Ligeti , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis during the Darmstadt summer courses in 1972 .

Since 1972 the group Infonie has performed as an octet. During his studies with Xenakis in Paris 1973-74 he formed the group into the Quatuor de saxophones de l'Infonie . The group, which played a predominantly contemporary repertoire, entered a. at the World Saxophone Congress 1970 in Chicago and in British Columbia (1981), in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto and played in radio and television programs of the CBC . Since 1982 the group has worked as the Montreal Saxophone Quartet (with Simon Stone , René Masino , David Clark and Boudreau).

1973 won Boudreau first prize at the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers with Variations I . In 1982 the Canadian Music Council awarded him the Jules Léger Prize for L'Odyssée du soleil . As a member of the Groupe des sisses (alongside Michel-Georges Brégent , Michel Gonneville , Denis Gougeon , Alain Lalonde and John Rea ) he participated in community compositions such as La Folia (1984) and Musique des jardins sans complexe (1987). In 1991 he received the Grand Prix Paul Gilso for Golgot (h) a .

From 1988 Boudreau was artistic director and first conductor of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), from 1990 to 1993 composer in residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra . With Denys Bouliane he directed the Festival Musiques-au-présent of the Orchester Symphonique de Québec from 1998 to 2000 . The premiere of the Symphonie du millénaire , a monumental collective composition by nineteen musicians, also took place under her direction . In 2003 he led, again with Bouilane, the first international Nouvelles Musiques festival in Montreal. In 2003 he was awarded the Molson Prize for the Arts by the Canada Council .

Works

  • Pain-beurre for five voices, piano, drums, tape, feed-back and synthesizer, 1969
  • Film music for La Chambre blanche , 1970
  • Soundtrack for Les Maudits sauvages , 1970
  • Ubiquital I for instrumental ensemble, 1971
  • Ysengouronnie for speaker, instrumental ensemble and tape, 1971
  • Ubiquital II and III for instrumental ensemble, 1972
  • Film music for L'Infonie inachevée , 1972
  • Soundtrack for Une nuit en Amérique , 1973
  • Film music for Réjeanne Padovani , 1973
  • Variations for instrumental ensemble, 1973
  • Soundtrack for Ultimatum , 1974
  • Variations II 'Dans les champs il ya des bibittes' for soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1974
  • Coffre I for soprano, four saxophones and percussion, 1975
  • Coffre II 'Le Cercle gnostique II' for twelve voices, Ondes Martenot, three percussionists, string quartet and instrumental ensemble, 1975
  • Morceaux for string quartet, 1976
  • Coffre III 'Le Cercle gnostique I' for soprano, flute and guitar, 1977
  • Les Sept jours for eight percussionists, 1977
  • L'Odyssée du soleil 'Le Cercle gnostique III' for eight wind instruments, 1978
  • Amon-Râ 'Le Cercle gnostique V' for five Ondes Martenot, 1979
  • Incantations I 'Le Cercle gnostique IV' for saxophone quartet, 1979
  • Demain les étoiles 'Le Cercle gnostique VI' for twelve saxophones, 1980
  • Contact-itinéraires 'Le Cercle gnostique VII' for wind quintet, 1981
  • La Toc 'Le Cercle gnostique VIIa' for twelve percussionists, 1981
  • Carrousel-constellations 'Le Cercle gnostique VIII' for flute, cello, two pianos and percussion, 1982
  • Cocktail Music 'Musiques entre 5 et 7' for alto saxophone and percussion, 1983
  • Voyage au center du soleil 'Le Cercle gnostique IX' for eight wind instruments and percussion, 1983
  • Incantations III 'Le Cercle gnostique IXa' for ten wind instruments, 1984
  • Incantations IV 'Le Cercle gnostique IXb' for clarinet, cello and piano, 1984
  • Lente ré concentrée ré à la Boudrini 'La Folia' for bagpipes, wind instruments, two percussionists and three strings, 1984
  • Les Planètes 'Le Cercle gnostique IXa' for piano, 1984
  • Chaleurs , ballet for saxophone quartet and tape, 1985
  • Incantations V 'Le Cercle gnostique IXc' for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello, 1985
  • Incantations Va 'Le Cercle gnostique IXt' for seven violins, two violas, two cellos and double bass, 1986
  • Homage to sainte Cécile , 1986
  • Berlin Moments for Orchestra, 1988
  • Versus for four woodwinds and four brass instruments, piano and three percussionists, 1988
  • Wallongement for four woodwinds and three brass instruments and two synthesizers, 1988
  • Golgotha , 1991