Jean-Guy Boisvert
Particularly interested by the music of his contemporaries, Jean-Guy Boisvert has often premiered Canadian works. His enthousiastic approach to new music had led to numerous commissions to famed Canadian composers. Among those, the concertos 2000 et des poussières by Alain Perron, Koocoos by Luc Marcel (2012) ; quintets by Tim Brady, Richard Gibson, Bengt Hambraeus, Bruce Mather and Piotr Grella Mozejko ; solo works with electronics by Alexandre Burton, David Eagle, Sean Ferguson, Keith Hamel, Christos Hatzis, Alcides Lanza, Jean Piché, Bruce Pennycook, Laurie Radford, D. Andrew Stewart and Scott Wilson. He has also premiered or recorded numerous solo and chamber music works. Whenever he can, he enjoys working on new music with the composers themselves or their prefered interpreters.
In 1993, he recorded a first CD Zodiac (works by Stockhausen, Boucourechliev, Donald Steven and Bruce Pennycook). With support from Canada Council he makes a second solo CD in 2004, Amours, (premiere recordings of Canadian works by Denis Gougeon, Christos Hatzis, Jacques Hétu, Alcides Lanza, and the 1970’s eponyme work by Stockhausen), and in 2008 Le livre des mélancolies (premiere recordings of Canadian works byTim Brady, Piotr Grella-Mozejko and Jean Lesage with the Bozzini Quartet).
Jean-Guy Boisvert has performed with Alcan, Bozzini, Colorado, Laval, Arthur Leblanc, Penderecki and St-John string quartets ; pianists Valentin Bogolubov, David Despringres, Marc Durand, Suzanne Goyette, Jean Marchand, John Newmark and Lorraine Prieur among others. More recently, he has developed a serious interest in performance on period instruments.
Among his upcoming project we can mention the CD’s Against the current, (French chamber music by Bozza, Cartan, Jolivet, Koechlin and Rivier with flute a capella and with piano or harpsichord), About my Friend Max (solo Canadian works with electronics).
A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières and London's Guildhall School of Music, Jean-Guy Boisvert holds a Doctorate in contemporary music performance from the Université de Montréal. He has studied with Robert Crowley, Rafaël Masella, Yona Ettlinger, Robert Marcellus and Suzan Stephens with whom he especially worked on the choreographic works of Stockhausen, including Harlekin.
Since July 2000, he teaches clarinet, saxophone and chamber music at Université de Moncton.
Studied with Yona Ettlinger: 1976-1978
In 1993, he recorded a first CD Zodiac (works by Stockhausen, Boucourechliev, Donald Steven and Bruce Pennycook). With support from Canada Council he makes a second solo CD in 2004, Amours, (premiere recordings of Canadian works by Denis Gougeon, Christos Hatzis, Jacques Hétu, Alcides Lanza, and the 1970’s eponyme work by Stockhausen), and in 2008 Le livre des mélancolies (premiere recordings of Canadian works byTim Brady, Piotr Grella-Mozejko and Jean Lesage with the Bozzini Quartet).
Jean-Guy Boisvert has performed with Alcan, Bozzini, Colorado, Laval, Arthur Leblanc, Penderecki and St-John string quartets ; pianists Valentin Bogolubov, David Despringres, Marc Durand, Suzanne Goyette, Jean Marchand, John Newmark and Lorraine Prieur among others. More recently, he has developed a serious interest in performance on period instruments.
Among his upcoming project we can mention the CD’s Against the current, (French chamber music by Bozza, Cartan, Jolivet, Koechlin and Rivier with flute a capella and with piano or harpsichord), About my Friend Max (solo Canadian works with electronics).
A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières and London's Guildhall School of Music, Jean-Guy Boisvert holds a Doctorate in contemporary music performance from the Université de Montréal. He has studied with Robert Crowley, Rafaël Masella, Yona Ettlinger, Robert Marcellus and Suzan Stephens with whom he especially worked on the choreographic works of Stockhausen, including Harlekin.
Since July 2000, he teaches clarinet, saxophone and chamber music at Université de Moncton.
Studied with Yona Ettlinger: 1976-1978