Walter Boudreau
Canadian musician
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Walter Boudreau at the award ceremony for the National Order of Quebec in June 2013. | |
Born | 1947 |
Occupation | Quebecois composer, saxophonist and conductor. |
Walter Boudreau, CM CQ (born 1947 in Sorel) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist and conductor. In 1969, he founded the group L'Infonie with Raoul Duguay, which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988, he has been the artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in Montreal. He was a principal collaborator in the Symphonie du Millénaire which took place in Montréal in 2000. In May 2015 Boudreau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.[1]
Teachers
- Serge Garant
- Mauricio Kagel
- György Ligeti
- Bruce Mather
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Gilles Tremblay
- Iannis Xenakis
Films
- La Nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970, 1971
- L'Infonie inachevée, 1972
- Fanfares, 1988
Awards
- 1982 - Prix Jules-Léger
- 1998 - Prix Opus : compositeur de l'année
- 2003 - Molson Prize
- 2004 - Prix Denise-Pelletier
- 2013 - Knight of the National Order of Quebec
- 2013 - Member of the Order of Canada[2]
- 2015 - Governor General's Performing Arts Award
- Grants from the Canadian Arts Council
- National Young Composers Competition (Radio-Canada)
See also
References
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- R. Murray Schafer (1978)
- Bruce Mather (1979)
- Serge Garant (1980)
- John Rea (1981)
- Walter Boudreau (1982)
- John Hawkins (1983)
- Brian Cherney (1985)
- Michel Longtin (1986)
- Denys Bouliane (1987)
- Michael Colgrass (1988)
- Peter Paul Koprowski (1989)
- Donald Steven (1991)
- John Rea (1992)
- Bruce Mather (1993)
- Peter Paul Koprowski (1994)
- John Burke (1995)
- Christos Hatzis (1996)
- Omar Daniel (1997)
- Michael Oesterle (1998)
- Alexina Louie (1999)
- André Ristic (2000)
- Chris Harman (2001)
- Yannick Plamondon (2002)
- Éric Morin (2003)
- Patrick Saint-Denis (2004)
- Linda Catlin Smith (2005)
- James Rolfe (2006)
- Chris Harman (2007)
- Analia Llugdar (2008)
- Jimmie LeBlanc (2009)
- Justin Christensen (2010)
- Cassandra Miller (2011)
- Zosha Di Castri (2012)
- Nicole Lizée (2013)
- Thierry Tidrow (2014)
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (2015)
- Cassandra Miller (2016)
- Gabriel Dharmoo (2017)
- Brian Current (2018)
- Alec Hall (2019)
- Kelly-Marie Murphy (2020)