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Lorrain, Denis (b. July 29, 1948, Ithaca, New York). American-born Canadian-French composer of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the Americas and Europe.
Prof. Lorrain studied with Jean-Marie Cloutier, Serge Garant, Jean Papineau-Couture, and André Prévost at the Université de Montréal from 1967–71, where he earned his BMus with distinction. He then studied with Bengt Hambræus, alcides lanza, Bruce Mather, and Paul Pedersen at McGill University in Montréal from 1971–73, where he earned his MMus, and had studies with Gottfried Michael Koenig, Otto E. Laske and Frits Weiland at the Institute of Sonology of the University of Utrecht in 1973–74. Lastly, he studied with Michel Guiomard and Iannis Xenakis at the Université de Paris I-St. Charles from 1977–83, where he earned his diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in music and musical aesthetics in 1978 and his DMus in musical aesthetics in 1983, by a unanimous vote of the jury.
His honors include First Prize in the composition competition of the Canadian League of Composers (1970, for Arc), the Prize of the BMI Awards to Student Composers (1970, for Arc; 1973, for Suite pour deux guitares) and the composition prize Prometheus in London (1977, for Extrema). In addition, he has earned the Grand Prix du Disque (1985, for the Radio-Canada International recording of 'Di mi se mai...' and works by other composers) and a mention in the Bourges competition (1986, for ...black it stood as night). Most recently, he earned the Composition Prize of the New England Computer Arts Association (1987, for ...black it stood as night).
Prof. Lorrain is also active in other positions. He co-founded the Groupe de recherche Informatique-Musique at the Université de Montréal in 1970 and was an active member in it from 1970–72. He worked at the Centre d'études de mathématiques et d'automatique musicales (CEMAMu) in Paris in 1974–75, under the direction of Iannis Xenakis, and worked with Jean-Claude Risset at the Laboratoire d'informatique et d'acoustique musicale of the Université d'Aix-Marseille in 1975–76. He has had a long affiliation with IRCAM, where he worked initially as an assistant in the pedagogy department in 1978–79 and 1982–83, under the direction of Michel Decoust and David Wessel, and then as assistant master from 1984–88. He was a technical advisor and instructor in 1989–90 and was responsible for the Cursus Annuel de Composition et Informatique Musicale in 1991–92. He has served as projects coordinator in its production department since 1998.
He taught as an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal from 1980–82. He has taught as a professor and served as co-director of the electroacoustic and computer music section (SONVS) of the composition department at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon since 1987.
He has lived in France since 1982, where he became a citizen in 1985, but is also a Canadian citizen.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: dlo@denislorrain.org
Street address: Prof. Denis Lorrain, SONVS – CNSM de Lyon, 3 Quai de Chauveau, CP 120, 69266 Lyon, Cedex 09, France
Website: http://www.denislorrain.org/
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Arc, 50 strings, 1969; Polyphrase, 1973
CHAMBER MUSIC: L'angélus, clarinet, tape, 1971; Suite pour deux guitares, 2 guitars, 1972, revised 1973; Contra Mortem, clarinet, 1975; Le talon d'Achille, flute, 1976; Extrema, organ, percussion, 1977; 'Di mi se mai...' (text by Leonardo da Vinci), French horn, trumpet, piccolo trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, tape, 1979; The Other Shape, percussion, tape, 1985; Du jour, la nuit, flute, 1995
VOCAL: P-A, version II, 8 speakers, 1970 (also version as P-A, version Luminy, tape)
ORGAN: Séquence, 1972
HARPSICHORD: La nuova ricordanza, 2 harpsichords, 1986
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Génériques (I, S, R), tape, 1974; P-A, version Luminy, tape, 1976 (version of P-A, version II); Les portes du sombre Dis, tape, 1979; ...black it stood as night, tape, 1985
RADIO PRODUCTION: Droite (text by Le Corbusier), tape, 1974–76
DIDACTIC MUSIC: Petites pièces, piano, 1968 (written under pseudonym David Laumes)
DISCOGRAPHY
Petites pièces. Elaine Keillor, piano (BR: 1336)
Séquence. Patrick Wedd, organ (Centrediscs: CMCCD 1784)
The Other Shape. Robert Leroux, percussion (Centrediscs: CMCCD 3288)
'Di mi se mai...'. Serge Garant/Ensemble de la SMCQ (Radio-Canada International: RCI-546)
...black it stood as night. (Wergo: 2022-50)
(Last updated on October 25, 2006)
