Nicolas
Gilbert (*1979) studied composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique
de Montréal with composers Michel Gonneville and Serge Provost, and at McGill
University, with composer John Rea.
His
catalogue comprises about 30 chamber, vocal and orchestral works that have been
performed in concert series and festivals in more than 15 countries around the
world by ensembles and soloists such as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Radio Orchestra, Kaida
(Amsterdam), ICE (Chicago), cellists Matt Haimovitz and Benjamin Carat (Lyon),
pianist Stanislaw Widulin (Berlin), clarinettist Thomas Piercy (New-York) and
many Canadian contemporary music ensembles (Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal,
Continuum, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Trio Fibonacci, Molinari Quartet, Bradyworks,
etc.).
He
is recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2006 “Discovery of
the Year” Opus Prize and the CBC Rising Star Award awarded by the Quebec Music
Council, five SOCAN Awards for Young Composers, the Third and Special Prizes in
the 2006 Serocki International Competition (Poland) and a dozen grants from the
Canada and Quebec arts councils. L’entreprise de séduction, a cello concerto
written for Matt Haimovitz and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal also
received the Opus Prize for Best Premiere of the 2006-2007 season.
Nicolas
Gilbert was resident composer at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in
Montreal from 2003 to 2005 and president of the Codes d’accès concert society
from 2002 to 2004. During the 2005-2006 season, he was in residence at GRAME
(Lyon), working on a new piece for cello and electronics (commission :
GRAME-CALQ). He is currently member of the artistic board of the Société de
Musique Contemporaine du Québec.