Latitude 45 welcomes Linda Bouchard!
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We are delighted to announce that renowned Canadian composer Linda Bouchard has joined the Latitude 45 Arts roster!
Born in Québec, Linda Bouchard has been active for over 40 years as a composer, orchestrator, conductor, mentor and researcher. Bouchard is the recipient of the Composer of the Year Award from the Conseil Québécois de la Culture (1998), the Joseph S. Stauffer Award from the Canada Council for the Arts (1999), the Davidson Award (2017) and several SOCAN awards (1983, 1984, 1986). Her honors in the United States include first prizes in the Princeton Composition Contest (1992), Indiana State Competition (1986), National Association of Composers USA Competition (1981), and the Fromm Music Foundation Award from Harvard University (2006).
Her works have been recorded in Canada by the CBC, Analekta, Marquis Classics and CMC Labels; in Germany by ECM and in the United States by CRI and Bang on a Can. Her compositions are regularly heard by ensembles such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony, Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Bang on a Can, New York New Music Ensemble, Absolute Music Group, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Standing Wave, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Earplay, California EAR Unit, Addleds, Kronos Quartet, Bozzini Quartet, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, New Music Concerts, Array Music, Continuum, Ives Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, SMCQ, ECM, Bellows and Brass, Kim Kashkashian, Ellen Ruth Rose, Aron Kallay, Vicki Ray, Kevin McMillan, Paul Hillier, Dora Ohrenstein, François Houle, Charlotte Hug, Kyle Bruckmann, Jacob Felix Heule, and others.
Bouchard went to the United States to study with Henry Brant and lived in New York City from 1979 to 1990. In 1991, Bouchard returned to Montreal and took up the post of composer-in-residence (1992-95) with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco, California. In 2018, thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, she started and pursued her “Live Structures” project. She has spent her professional life straddling the United States and Canada, living in New York and California, but always returning to Montréal as her home port.
Linda Bouchard: “My music is often inspired by geometry, structure, and the textures of nature. As if the composition of a musical work could be triggered by the microscopic observation of natural elements such as water, gas, rock formations, or chemical reactions, creating from these images a series of abstract soundscapes… Music is color, texture, and rhythm, and musicians create the alchemy.”
Welcome Linda! We look forward to the many musical journeys ahead!
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