Michelle Boudreau is a composer and speaker, as well as the founder and artistic director of Musiques Itinérantes MI ltée.
In composition, her research concerns structure, matter, gesture, theatrical and visual integration. She has composed many pieces for different musical groups and music theatre.
Her work has been performed in Canada, in the United States and in Europe by various festivals, societies and ensembles such as Arraymusic, Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, Ensemble Modern, during the Festival Audio Art Warszawa-Wroclaw in Poland, during the NWEAMO festival in Oregon and California, and during The World Music Days in Luxembourg and Romania.
Since spring 1999, she exhibits her art work in solo and with others.
She considers electroacoustic means, musical traditions of the world, culture and society in general, a must for musical language. Opera, music theatre, orchestral and chamber music, video, drawing, painting, photography, writing are her interest, and there are many others.
MUSIC THEATRE / STAGE WORKS
OUSIOUÀMAQUE: LE RETOUR DE BERTÉ LITICE (1997-
2001) - music theatre
En attendant Berté Litice (2001)
app 20 minutes
for mezzo-soprano, baryton, speaker, violinist, cellits, one
or more percussionists and chorus
Berté Litice, la suite
(2000) app 20 minutes
for speaker, six voice chorus, one or more violinists,
one or more cellists and one or more percussionists
Ousiouàmaque:
Le retour de Berté Litice (1998)
app 14 minutes
for speaker, 6 voice chorus, violinists and percussionist
Les
mots factieux de Berté Litice (1997) app 9 minutes
for violinist,
marimba player and the choice of adding a third performer (a speaker)
Made
with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des
lettres du Québec
ROMPRE L'OS (1992 - 1999) - music theatre
Les
grimaces
6 variations et une tête grimaçante (
1997) app 10'30
for violinist and multiple combinations including a video
Ma
magie (1992)
app 4'40
for speaker, psaltery, video and tape
Rompre l'os
Acte
I (1994) app 17 minutes
for soprano, violinist, cellist, speaker,
6 voice chorus, dancer, tape amd video
Rompre l'os
Acte
II - in 4 scenes (1999) app 18 minutes 20
for violinist, cellist
and 6 voice chorus.
La procession (app 4 minutes 20)
La revendication (app 5 minutes)
Le génocide (app 5 minutes 30)
_______ (app 3 minutes 30)
Act I and Act II were made with the help of the Canada
Council for the Arts
LE CHOC DU TAMPON (1997)
Le choc
du tampon (1997) app 50 minutes
Music theatre for wind quintet,
2 brass instruments, 3 percussionists, actress (or speaker), string quartet,
2 to 14 actors, 2 to 14 mimes, dancers or acrobats, slides, video, CDs, records,
installation of turntables, CD players and La grande roue / The Ferris Wheel.
Five scenes with various ensembles :
Court Circuit (app 6 minutes 25)
Anar Cirque (app 10 minutes 56)
Death's Little Circ'os (17 minutes)
Bestiaire (app 6 minutes 29)
The Greatest Show (app 6 minutes 14)
Made with the help of Conseil des arts
et des lettres du Québec and
the Canada Council for the Arts
Le cinquième conte vagabond (2001)
app 15 minutes - for 12 musicians
Made with the help of the Canada Council
for the Arts
CHARNIÈRE (1986-1991)
Music theatre which originates
from a multiform sculpture / object bearing the same name and created by artist
Luc Bourbonnais. Five pieces:
Charnière: Ouverture (1991)
app 8 minutes
for chorus of 11 women voices and percussionist
Charnière:
Le rituel de la permutation et de la répartition (1986)
undetermined time
A Thousand and One Rituals for soprano, trumpeter, violinist,
percussionist, pianist, tape and chorus
Charnière: Langage
oublié (1987)
17 minutes
for soprano, "charnière" sculpture, tape, video
and lights
Charnière: Ce tas de miroirs brisés (1991)
undetermined time
A Thousand and One bursts of pieces constructed with matter
composed for soprano, violinist, actors, speakers, tape, "charnière" sculptures
and video
Charnière: Fermeture (1991) undetermined
time
This piece is made of one or many passages taken from the previous pieces
Two
of these pieces were made with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts
and Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec.
L'hémisphère
du poète (1990) app 20
minutes
for soprano, percussion, speaker and artist printer . In collaboration
with artist Luc Bourbonnais
Rétrospection: Nomosphase (1989)
app 25 minutes
for soprano, speaker, tape, nomosphases, candels burning by
both ends, video, lights
Effet caméléon, marche
pour un meneur et sept sculptures vivantes (1986)
Music theatre for
1 percussionist, 7 performers wearing latex envelopes, installation (an arena),
lights. In collaboration with artist Lise-Hélène
Larin
Hymne territorial (1986) 5 minutes
for tape, visual
concept and video. Work in collaboration with artist Luc Bourbonnais
Le
magasin pittoresque (1986) 11 minutes
for tape and video. In collaboration
with artist Lise-Hélène
Larin
MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA
LES TOMI (1999
- 2001) app 20 minutes 30
Introtomi (2000) app 1 minute
- for trumpet and violin
Tomi I (1999) app 7 minutes
- for string orchestra
Intertome I (2000) app 1 minute
20 - for trumpet, percussion and 7 violins
Tomi II (2000)
app 4 minutes - for 10 brass instruments, 2 percussions and string orchestra
Intertome
II (2001) app 1 minutes 15 - for 2 horns, 4 trombones
and 2 percussions
Tomi III (2001) app 3 minutes - for
10 brass instruments
Tominale (2001) app 2 minutes
30 - for 10 brass instruments, 2 percussions and string orchestra
Made with
the help of the Canada Council for the Arts
Entre Belacqua et
Nell (1993)
app 17 minutes
for an ensemble of 15 musicians and "speaker" percussionist
Made
with the help of Ministère de la Culture du Québec
MUSIC FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
MAXIATURE ET MINIATURES (2000
- 2003)
L'Intruse (2003) app 50 minutes
Stage work with
choreography, soloists, chamber ensemble, CD, structure "Inuksuk
Abacus" and slide projection
Made with the help of the Canada Council
for the Arts
La chasse caribous (2003) app 4 minutes
30
For flute
Made with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts
Sans parole (2000)
app 25 minutes 25
Stage work , with a short story by Nicole Boudreau for the
miniature 5/21 "Sweet-Grass"
One mother piece and 21 miniatures
for 12 musicians and children
Made with the help of Conseil des arts et des
lettres du Québec
Le baliseur (1997) app 4 minutes
30
for flute and two radios. Commission from the Canadian Music Centre for
Concours Jeunes Interprètes 1997 - 1998
La métamorphose
de Mélusine (1994) app 4 minutes
for wind orchestra (young
performers). Commission by the Canadian Music Centre and FAMEQ
CHAMBER MUSIC / VOCAL MUSIC
Variations Soleil (2000)
app 15 minutes
for soprano, clarinet, trumpet, violin, bass, piano, percussion
Canada Council
for the Arts, commission by Arraymusic
Miniatures 1/21, 2/21,
3/21 (1999)
app 4 minutes 35
for string quartet
Pièce pour quintette à vent (1998)
app 12 minutes and more
Fern and E. Green: "A" miniature (1996)
app 3 minutes 30
for clarinet, trumpet, violin, bass, piano and 2 percussions
Canada Council
for the Arts, commission by Arraymusic (25th anniversary)
Les Pléiades (1994)
for soprano, flute, clarinet,
violin, cello, percussion and piano
Sans Titre (1985)
11 minutes
for trumpet, piano and percussion
First Prize William Saint Clair Low for this
chamber music piece (CAPAC)
Stoles (1984) 10 minutes
30
for five percussionists
Phydj B. Crasegm Nitl (1984)
8 minutes 40
for recorder quartet
Enneaenne (1983) 9 minutes
for
recorder, viola da gamba and percussion
synAsyn (1983)
app 18 minutes
for trombone, bass, percussion and sound delay system
Tétraktys (1983)
app 18 minutes
for soprano, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 violins, viola,
cello and 2 percussions
First Prize William Saint Clair Low for this chamber
music piece (CAPAC)
Croissances Croisées (1980)
app 13 minutes 30
for six voices (s-ms-a-t-b-b), six wind instruments (fl-ob-clar-3
sax) and tape
Jeux et Figures (1979) 11 minutes
for
5 brass instruments, 2 percussions and electric piano
Raz de
Rêves
Marée (1978) app 8 minutes
for 4 voices (s-s-a-a), flute, bass
flute and 4 percussions. Texte: Nicole Boudreau.
Losange (1978)
app 5 minutes 30
for 2 recorder flautists, 1 flautist and percussionist
(see also Losange II)
Sonate (1977) app 15 minutes
for cello and piano
Prize Award by "Jeune Musiques" organised by
CAPAC and McGill University
Pièces pour flûte et hautbois (1976)
app 7 minutes
Pièces pour piano (1976) app 5
minutes
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