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Program
- Jean-Luc HERVÉ, Germination, 12 instruments + electronics
- Marilou BURON, Qui croire de soi ? (World Premiere) Maddie Studt, soprano, Charles-Éric Fontaine, student conductor
MCGILL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE:
- Guest conductor: Lorraine Vaillancourt
Biographies
- Jean-Luc Hervé was born in 1960. He studied composition at the conservatoire de Paris with Gérard Grisey, where he received a Premier Prix in composition. In 1997 he received the "Goffredo Petrassi" prize for his composition Ciels for orchestra. He was composer-in-research at IRCAM and received a fellowship from the DAAD in Berlin (2003). The profound effect of a residence at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, along with a doctoral thesis in aesthetics and subsequent research at IRCAM, have helped to shape Hervé's compositional outlook. He founded the group Biotop(e) with Thierry Blondeau and Oliver Schneller in 2004. His works have been performed by ensembles such as Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia-Romagna "Arturo Toscanini", Instant Donné, Court-Circuit, Ensemble Intercontemporain, 2E2M, Contrechamps, Berliner Symphonie Orchester, KNM Berlin, Musik Fabrik, Orchestra della Toscana. He is currently a teacher of composition at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt.
- Born and currently living in Montreal, Marilou Buron began playing the piano at the age of five and, at the age of seven, she was already composing. Music has always been a passion and has quickly become a big part of her life. Musical composition represents for her a universal language which allows her to freely express her emotions. Buron studied jazz piano and composition at Cégep Saint-Laurent. She completed her bachelor’s degree in composition at McGill University and is presently pursuing her Master’s. With her training at McGill, she explores both classical and contemporary music, creating an interesting fusion of styles in her compositions, which are notable for their rich harmonic progressions. Buron also has her own musical formation, “Marilou Buron sextet”, which plays her jazz, pop and funk-style compositions.
Lorraine Vaillancourt (conductor) - Conductor and pianist Lorraine Vaillancourt is the founder and music director of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), which has been ensemble-in-residence at the Faculté de Musique de l’Université de Montréal since 1989. She is a full professor at the Université de Montréal, where she directed the Atelier de musique contemporaine from 1974 until her retirement from teaching in 2016. She is regularly featured as a guest artist by ensembles and orchestras in Canada and around the world. At home, she has conducted the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the Orchestre Métropolitain, among others. Abroad, she has directed such groups as the Orchestre de Cannes, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Turin), the Nice Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (Lyon), Ensemble Sillages (Nice), Plural Ensemble (Madrid), Les Percussions de Strasbourg and, recently, the Nouvel Ensemble Con- temporain (NEC) in Switzerland.