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Sextuor à cordes
(2012) (première)

Commissioned by Sextuor Les Alizés

Hôtel de Soubise, Paris 
June 29th, 2013

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Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis
(Ralph Vaughan Williams)

transcription for string ensemble and vocal ensemble by François-Hugues Leclair (2010)
(première)

Orchestre Nouvelle Génération, conductor : Alain Aubut
Ensemble Kô, conductor : Tiphaine Legrand

Salle Claude-Champagne, Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal
January 26th, 2013

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La vie brève des roses ?
(2011) (première)
on a poem from Florence Delay

Commissionned by Choeur Britten for their 30th anniversary
Conductor : Nicole Corti

Public rehearsal : Archives municipales de Lyon, dans l'écrin de l'exposition Histoires intimes
april 26th 2012, 7 PM
Première :  Concerts Trente-et-une créations, Lyon (France)
Archives municipales de Lyon, april 6th, 2013, 8:30 PM
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Le retour des oies (2012) (première)

David Colwell (violin), Michelle Santiago (piano)
State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia, Juliet J Rosch Hall,
Contemporary music Festival Ethos NewSound Festival,
september 14th, 2012


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If you want it (2012) (première)
Commissioned by the National academy orchestra of Canada

Première : Boris Brott Festival, Hamilton, Ontario, July 5th 2012 
Conductor : Boris Brott
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Que mes pas me portent (2007)
for a capella choir,
Ensemble , Conductor : Tiphaine Legrand

- May 16,  2012, 8 PM
- May 20, 2012, 3 PM
- May 27, 2012, 3 PM

Église du
Gesù, Montréal
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Nouvel espoir (2002)
for Choir, Brass quartet and percussion

Choeur St-Laurent, Buzz Brass quintet
Conductor :
Michael Zaugg

Saturday March 24th, 2012, 7:30 PM
Church of St-Andrew and St-Paul, Montréal

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Quatre avril mille-neuf-cent-soixante-huit
(2011) 

Melodrama on a poem from Léopold Sedar Senghor (IVth part from Elégie pour Martin Luther King)
Actress : Dominique Michel, Piano : Thierry Ravassard (Ensemble In/Out, France)

Conservatoire national supérieur de Lyon, Salle Varèse, 9. quai Chauveau, Lyon 9°
March 13th, 2012, 8:30 PM

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Mille choses à la fin sont une (2011) (première)
for Symphony Orchestra

commissioned by
Orchestre XXI
Conductor : Paolo Bellomia

February 28th, 2012, 8PM,
Crowley arts center, Montréal
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Que mes pas me portent (2007)

Ensemble , conductor : Tiphaine Legrand
Nuit Blanche, Église du Gesù, February 25th, 2012 (10 PM- 3 AM)
Église Notre-Dame de Grâce, Institut choral de Montréal, February 19th, 2012, 8 PM


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Quatre avril mille-neuf-cent-soixante-huit (2011) (première)

Melodrama on a poem from Léopold Sedar Senghor (IVth part from Elégie pour Martin Luther King)
Actress : Dominique Michel, Piano : Thierry Ravassard (Ensemble In/Out, France)

Concert Rêverie des Outre-Mer
December 4th, 2011, 5 PM, Hôtel Lutetia, Paris
Reservations : desmotsetdesnotes@yahoo.com
Tél : 06 99 45 62 92
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Mon coeur qui bat
(2010)

Melodrama on a poem from Jean-Pierre Siméon (Toi)
Actress : Dominique Michel, Piano : Thierry Ravassard (Ensemble In/Out, France)

September 22, 2011, Maison Trestler, Vaudreuil
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Messe pour la Terre (2011)

- June 26th, 2011 11AM, Église Ste-Rose de Lima, Laval - Messe dans le cadre du Mondial Choral
(excerpts from Messe pour la Terre, with T. Tallis et W. Byrd)

- June 28th 2011, 7:30PM,  Concert, Église Saint-Léon de Westmount, pour le Mondial Choral
(Messe pour la Terre complete with string trio interludes)

Ensemble , conductor : Tiphaine Legrand
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Messe pour la Terre (2011) (première)
for a capella choir and string trio

- May 26 2011, 8PM, Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes,
430, rue Ste-Catherine est, Montréal

- Journées d'Art Sacré du Plateau
June 5 and 10, 2011, Église de l'Immaculée-Conception, Montréal

Ensemble , Conductor : Tiphaine Legrand
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Élégie (1993)
from Rilke's Duino 1st Elegy
Annie Jacques (Soprano), Estelle Lemire (Ondes Martenot)

Le jour n'a d'égal que la nuit / Amour (2000) (poems from Anne Hébert)
Pluies (1997) (poem from Paul Verlaine)
Annie Jacques (Soprano), Estelle Lemire (Ondes Martenot), Michelle Santiago (piano)

May 24, 2011,8PM, Oscar-Peterson Hall,  Concordia University
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Élégie (1993)
from Rilke's Duino 1st Elegy
Annie Jacques (Soprano) et Estelle Lemire (Ondes Martenot)

April 24, 2011, 1:30 PM
Easter concert in Église Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours
400, rue St-Paul est, Montréal
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Messe pour la Terre (2011) (excerpts : Benedictus, Agnus Dei)

Nuit / Éveil au seuil d'une fontaine (2003) (on two poems from Anne Hébert)

December 12, 2010, 2:30 PM
Église du Gesù (1202, rue de Bleury, Montréal, Métro Place-des-Arts)
Ensemble , conductor : Tiphaine Legrand
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Solstice d'hiver (1994, rev. 2010)
(Flute sextet)

Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal
200, av. Vincent d'Indy, Montréal
December 12, 2010
Concert des Chambristes stupéfiants : Salle Claude-Champagne, around 1:30 PM
Concert de la Classe de flûte du Professeur Lise Daoust : Salle Serge-Garant (B-484), around 5:30 PM
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Éveil au seuil d'une fontaine (1997, rév. 2008)
(vocal ensemble a capella)
(poem from Anne Hébert)

November 23, 2010, 12h.
Église du Gesù (1202, rue de Bleury, Montréal, Métro Place-des-Arts)
Ensemble , conductor : Tiphaine Legrand
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American Haikus (2009) (première)
on poems from Jack Kerouack

September 8, 2010, 4:30, Salle Claude-Champagne
Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal (Doctorate recital)
Piano : Elizabeth Schumann
Voice : Dory Haylay
 
October 17, 3pm, Danville Sacred Heart School Recital, Danville (Virginia)
October 20, 8pm, Virginia Tech Recital at Squires Recital Salon
October 21, 3:30-4:45pm, Radford U., College of visual and performing arts, lecture with piano
October 22, Chatham Hall Recital, Chatham (Virginia)
October 24, 2pm, Prizery Theatre, South Boston (Virginia)
October 25, South Boston Educational recital

Piano : Elizabeth Schumann
Voice : Sonya Schumann
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Mon coeur qui bat (2010)
on a poem from Jean-Pierre Siméon

Actress : Dominique Michel, Piano: Thierry Ravassard (France)

September 4, 2010
Estivals Festival, Court, Suisse
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Mon coeur qui bat (2010) (Première)
on a poem from Jean-Pierre Siméon

Actress : Dominique Michel, Piano: Thierry Ravassard (France)

Printemps des Poètes
Sunday March 14th, 2010, 4 PM
Musée Carnavalet, 23 Rue de Sévigné
75003 Paris, France
Reservation : ensemble.inout@free.fr
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Rêves nordiques (1996)

Three musical Tales from stories and melodies,
translated and narrated by Jacques Pasquet,
with the Choeur des Enfants de Montréal and instrumental quintet,
Conductor : Amy Henderson

Sunday, May 30th, 2010, 6:30 PM
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
Concordia University, Montréal
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Deux Interludes pour Violoncelle seul (2010) (Première)

Vernon Regehr, Violoncelle

in Concert with Ensemble vocal
Friday June 4th, 2010, 8 PM
Église St-Jean-Baptiste, corner Rachel / Henri-Julien
Montréal (Québec)

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RADIO-VILLE-MARIE
AVENUE VINCENT-D'INDY
Archives n. 29, 30 & 31
(december 2008)

HUGUES LECLAIR

Animator : Francine Moreau

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As a welcome gesture, here is a prayer from the Navajos, one of the largest Native American tribe of North America. May all nature’s poetry lead you to my musical work.

May my step guide me
 
May my step guide me with beauty
 
May my step guide me all trough the day
 
May my step guide me long every season’s return
 
So that beauty may blossom back
 

 
Beauty of birds
 
Joyous beauty of birds
 

 
May my step guide me through the pollen-scattered path
 
May my step guide me through the grasshopper’s dance
 
May my step guide me through the clear dew
 
And may beauty be with me
 

 
May my step guide me to the beauty that has been
 
May my step guide me to the beauty that is yet to come
 
May my step guide me to the beauty of the sky
 
May my step guide me to the beauty that surrounds me
 
May my step guide me through aging, walking on the path of beauty, invigorated
 
May my step guide me in aging, walking on a path of beauty, to a new life
And in beauty I will march...