My concerto for trumpets and one soloist is now finished.
The title, L’Indécis, is influenced by the dilemma of a trumpetist facing the challenge to play six different trumpets : trumpet in Bb, cornet in Bb, flugelhorn in Bb, slide trumpet in Bb, piccolo trumpet in A and a natural trumpet in Db.
The Interpretation portion of the first edition of the Quebec music composition concours of CMC Québec presented by Québecor has choosen a winner.
Presso, for piano by Denis Dion was the set piece.
The choice of the set piece was the result of the Composition portion of the concours. I was the finalist with my pice Allez, viens!
The young pianist winners, for the artistic quality or their performance of Presso, are Gianpiero Teolis – 16 years old (first prize of 500$) and Emmanuel Eustache- 16 years old – (second prize of 250$). Gianpiero will have the opportunity to present Presso at the next congress of the Fédération des associations de musiciens éducateurs du Québec (FAMEQ) Fall 2013 in Sherbrooke.
I am offering to you this video for the Holiday Season. This is an arrangement of Oh Christmas Tree in Chinese. It was commissioned to me by the team of the Macadam Tribu on Radio-Canada in Montreal. The director Luc Chamberland offered to do a clip out of it. And Voilà! I am a producer for the first time.
My piece Couleurs is going to be performed by the Orchestre de chambre de Montréal on April 16 2013. Wanda Kaluzny is conducting it as a professional premiere at the Salle Bourgie in Montreal.
This work is part of the suite Visages commissionned by the Montreal school FACE.
Yesterday night (April 2nd), a new page of history was written in the world of ice skating at the Studio La Majeure in Montreal!
The Canadian pair skater Eric Radford, the 2013 World bronze medalist with current partner Meagan Duhamel, was at the string recording session listening to the music to be used for their upcoming short program in this olympic year.
His own music composition!
To my knowledge, never before a skater has composed his own music track for a top level ice skating competition. TSN sensed the potential of this event. The specialized sports channel prepares a documentary to be broadcasted by Fall 2013 in order to expose the creation work of Eric off the ice rink. TSN’s producer Tracy Britnell did an interview with Eric, together with myself, just minutes prior to the recording session to find out more about the creative process of the music production.
The studio’s control room was packed. Close friends of the two skaters were present.
Eric Radford and Louis Babin
Louis Babin conducting the string sections
Sylvain Lebfevre
Photos by Normand Piché.
Julie Marcotte, their choregrapher, was making sure the musical format would be complying with the restrictions imposed by the International Skating Union (ISU).
Two shooting crews were in place to capture this rare moment. On top of TSN, CBC also sent people to the studio. Exciting mood.
The players are part of the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil. A big thanks to the musicians and to Michel Viau, Artistic and Production Manager.
Eric got in touch with me in August 2012 to work on the orchestration and the song’s structure. A structure in evolution as time went by in order to adapt to some technical and artistic shapes. The music will be use in Meagan and Eric’s short program at the Olympics.
