Gilles Tremblay (composer)


Gilles Tremblay, was a Canadian composer.

Early life and education

Trembay studied at the Conservatories of Montreal and Paris, where his teachers including Olivier Messiaen, Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger, Yvonne Loriod, and Maurice Martenot . He also attended Stockhausen's summer courses at Darmstadt, where he became interested in electro-acoustic techniques.

Career

Tremblay returned to Quebec in 1961. He taught musical analysis at the Centre d’arts Orford and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec, at Quebec City. Beginning in 1962, and for many years, he taught composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Among his pupils are Serge Arcuri, Raynald Arseneault, Yves Daoust, François Dompierre, Marc Hyland, Ramon Lazkano, Robin Minard, Éric Morin, Silvio Palmieri, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, André Villeneuve, Claude Vivier, and Wolf Edwards.
Early in his career he performed as a specialist on the ondes Martenot.
In 1991, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
Tremblay died August 4, 2017, at Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Compositions (selective list)