Yves Daoust

Biography

Sample Works

Professor and Head of the Electroacoustic Composition Department of the Montreal Conservatory of Music.

Born in Longueuil in 1946, Yves Daoust received his musical studies at the Montreal Conservatory of Music with Gilles Tremblay (composition and analyses) and Irving Heller (piano), completed his studies in France with a two year training course at the GMEB (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges) under the leadership of Alain Savouret.

Between 1976 and 1979, he was Audio Engineer for the National Film Board of Canada. Since 1980, he’s professor at the Quebec Conservatory of music and Fine Arts where he developed the Department of electroacoustic composition at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Very active on the professional scene, and one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music in Québec, he has contributed to the foundation and the development of different organizations dedicated to the promotion and the distribution of this music, such as the ACREQ (Association pour la Création et la Recherche électroacoustiques du Québec), which he lead for almost ten years.

His body of work touches on almost all facets of this medium: music for films, the stage (large number of collaborations notably with Mimes Omnibus), multi-disciplinarian shows, conceptual works (studio electroacoustic music, instrumental and mixed music, live electroacoustic music).

Recipient of the Euphonie D’Or prize (Festival de Bourges 1993) for his work Quatuor, now a “classic” in electroacoustique music.

Recordings

-Quatuor, coll. Cultures électroniques,

-Quatuor, coll. Cultures électroniques, vol. 1, Unesco/CIME, LDC 278 043.

-adagio, ACM 37 CD 1-4, Radio-Canada international.

-Mi bémol, IMED- 9004-CD

-Mi bémol, Absolut CD #1, Ear Magazine

-Anecdotes: cinq œuvres, de 1979 à 1991, empreintes DIGITALes, IMED-9106-CD.

-Maurice Blackburn, portrait d'un méconnu, Analekta AN 2 7005-6

-Musiques naïves, empreintes DIGITALes, IMED-9843-CD.

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