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Daoust, Yves (b. 1946, Longueuil). Esteemed Canadian composer of mostly stage, chamber and electroacoustic works that have been heard throughout the world.
Prof. Daoust studied piano privately with Alice Vigeant as a child and later studied analysis and composition with Gilles Tremblay and piano with Irving Heller at the Conservatoire de Musique et d'Art Dramatique de Montréal from 1966-71. He studied film music techniques with Maurice Blackburn and Norman McLaren at the National Film Board of Canada in Montréal in 1971 and finished his studies with Alain Savouret and others at IMEB in France from 1974-76.
Among his honors is the Euphonie d'Or in the Concours International de la Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (1992, for Quatuor). Many leading soloists, including pianists Anne Barteletti, Jacques Drouin and Manuel Schweizer, flautist Lise Daoust, keyboardist Anne Gaudemer, horn-player Louis-Philippe Marsolais, harpsichordist Catherine Perrin, and accordionist Joseph Petric, have played his works.
He worked as an audio engineer for the National Film Board of Canada from 1976-79 and later co-founded the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustique du Québec (ACREQ) in 1978 and served as its director from 1982-86 and 1988-91.
He has taught at the Conservatoire de Musique et d'Art Dramatique de Montréal since 1979, where he is now Professeur de Composition Électroacoustique and chair of the department of electroacoustic composition, which he founded.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: yvdaoust@videotron.ca
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Carnaval (interdisciplinary event), mime group, tape, 1983-84 (collaboration with Mimes Omnibus; also concert version for tape); Variations sur un air d'accordéon, mime (+ accordion), tape, 1987; Trip Tympan (youth musical show), live electronics, 1993-94; Planète Baobab (youth musical show), orchestra, live electronics, 1999 (collaboration with Denis Gougeon); Alice (youth musical show), orchestra, live electronics, 2002-03 (collaboration with Denis Gougeon)
ORCHESTRAL: Trois-fois-quatre, 14 strings, 1972-73
CHAMBER MUSIC: Valse, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet), alto saxophone (+ tenor saxophone), tenor saxophone (+ baritone saxophone), B-flat trumpet, violin, piano (+ synthesizer), electronic organ (+ synthesizer), amplified harpsichord, metronome (operated by conductor), tape, 1980; Petite musique sentimentale, piano, tape, 1984; Adagio, flute, tape, 1985-86; L'Entrevue, accordion, tape, 1989-90; Impromptu, piano, synthesizer (+ sampler), tape, 1995 (longer version of tape work); Solo, French horn, 2003
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Paris, les Grands-Magasins, tape, 1975; Tout l'monde est d'bonne humeur, tape, 1978; Quatuor, tape, 1979; La Gamme, tape, 1980; La Visite, tape, 1985; Mi bémol, tape, 1986; Il était une fois, tape, 1986-87; Carnaval, tape, 1988 (concert version of stage work); Suite baroque, tape, 1988; Ouverture, tape, 1989; Résonances, tape, 1992; Impromptu, tape, 1994 (also longer version for piano, synthesizer [+ sampler], tape); Bruits, tape, 1997-2001 (each of its three sections may be performed separately: Children's Corner, 1997-98; Nuit, 1999; Fête, 2001); Objets trouvés, tape, 2002; Le temps fixé, tape, 2003-04
RADIO PRODUCTIONS: Maurice Blackburn: portrait d'un méconnu, tape, 1982, revised 1995; Fantaisie, tape, 1986; Water Music, tape, 1991
DISCOGRAPHY
Quatuor. (UNESCO/CIME: LDC 278 043, 1985)
Adagio. (Radio-Canada International: ACM 37, 1990)
Mi bémol. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9004, 1990)
Mi bémol. (Ear Magazine: 1, 1991)
Suite baroque; Petite musique sentimentale; Adagio; L'Entrevue; Quatuor. Lise Daoust, flute; Jacques Drouin, piano; Joseph Petric, accordion (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9106, 1991)
Maurice Blackburn: portrait d'un méconnu. (Analekta: AN 7005/06, 1996)
Impromptu; Il était une fois; Mi bémol; Résonances; Water Music; Fantaisie. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9843, 1998)
Il était une fois. (Chrysopée électronique/Opus 30, 2000)
Bruits; Impromptu; La Gamme; Ouverture. Jacques Drouin, piano; Lorraine Vaillancourt, synthesizer, sampler (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 0156, 2001)
(Last updated on April 26, 2004)
