Walter Boudreau
Walter Boudreau, (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.
Walter Boudreau
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- Walter Boudreau
- Born
- 1947
- Occupation
- Quebecois composer, saxophonist and conductor.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- Molson Prize · Knight of the National Order of Quebec · Governor General's Performing Arts Award · Prix Denise-Pelletier · Member of the Order of Canada
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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.
Cérémonie de remise de l' ordre national du Québec 2013.
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• Name — Walter Boudreau • Born — 1947 • Occupation — Quebecois composer, saxophonist and conductor.
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Walter Boudreau, a composer and saxophonist, was born in 1947. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Teachers
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 • Ultimatum, 1973 • Unfinished Infonie (L'Infonie inachevée...), 1973 • 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 • 2015 - Governor General's Performing Arts Award • Grants from the Canadian Arts Council • National Young Composers Competition (Radio-Canada)
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