key, *1957 CA
Composer of Jazz and Country
Born in Magog, Québec in 1957, Richard Désilets studied music composition at the Université de Montréal with Serge Garant from 1982 to 1987. He was composer-in-residence for the Canadian Opera Company and at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts and he has won several awards, among them prizes from CAPAC, the CBC and the National Tribune for Young Composers of the Événements du Neuf concert society. Désilets has also received grants from the Québec Ministry of Cultural Affairs and from the Canada Council. His researches of new sonorities, musical structures, and rhythms has made Richard Désilets a man of very complex music, avant-garde and experimental.
Claude Lassonde |