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McKinley, Maxime (b. 1979, Sherbrooke, Québec). Canadian composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in North America and elsewhere.
Mr. McKinley studied composition with Michel Gonneville at the Conservatoire de Musique et d'Art Dramatique de Montréal, where he graduated with the Prix avec Grande Distinction in 2004. He has studied composition with Isabelle Panneton at the Université de Montréal since 2004, where he is working on his DMus. He also studied composition privately with Martin Matalon in Paris in 2007, on a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
His honors include four prizes in the SOCAN competition for young composers (Second Godfrey Ridout Prize, 2003, for Zénon l'alchimiste; First Sir Ernest MacMillan Prize ex aequo, 2004, for La vie est ailleurs [Wirkunst-Kundera I]; Third Godfrey Ridout Prize, 2005, for Quatre miroirs-loukoum précédés par Le salon; Third Serge Garant Prize, 2006, for Wirkunst-Forum) and a commission prize in the competition of Orchestre de l'Université de Montréal (2005). In addition, he was selected to participate in the Young Composers Program of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa (2005) and the Génération 2006 project of Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (2006) and he received First Prize in the Canadian Composers' Competition of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (2006, for Les testaments trahis [Wirkunst-Kundera II]). His music has been commissioned by the Association des Orchestres de Jeunes du Québec, Duo Prémices, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, the organization Société Codes d'accès, and Trio Hochelaga and has been performed in Canada and France.
He is also active in other positions. He has written articles for the journals La Scena musicale and Circuit and his poetry has appeared in Revue Le Quartanier, all in Montréal.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: maxime_mckinley@hotmail.com
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Devri Kebir l'inventeur, 2002; Wirkunst-Kundera, 2004–06 (each of its two sections may be performed separately: La vie est ailleurs [Wirkunst-Kundera I], 2004; Les testaments trahis [Wirkunst-Kundera II], 2005–06); Wirkunst-Pellan, 2006
CHAMBER MUSIC: Kategemon-proposis, guitar, violin, cello, percussion, 1998; Intermittences cérébrales et/ou rotor cervical, trombone, 1999; Hommage à Jean-Paul Riopelle, piccolo, 6 flutes, bass flute, 2000; Le taureau bleu, oboe, bass clarinet, violin, viola, double bass, 2001; ...être cela même..., guitar, 2002; Hommage à Buxtehude, 4 French horns, 4 B-flat trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, baritone horn, tuba, 2 percussion, 2003; Wirkunst-Forum, violin, cello, piano, 2005; Wirkunst-Fellini, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet), bassoon (+ contrabassoon), French horn, trumpet, harp, string quartet, double bass, percussion, 2005; Wirkunst-Gómez, guitar, ensemble (flute [+ piccolo], clarinet [+ bass clarinet], French horn, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion), 2006
VOCAL: Zénon l'alchimiste (text by the composer), tenor, 2 flutes, oboe, French horn, trumpet, 2 guitars, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses, synthesizer, 2002; Quatre miroirs-loukoum précédés par Le salon (text by the composer), soprano, percussion, CD, 2003
(Last updated on January 21, 2007)
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