For a complete list of performances, see the "concerts" section.
In August, during the Up To Your Ears Festival :
On August 2nd 2008 at 5pm, Pemi Paull will perform Variations suspendues for solo viola.
On August 9nd 2008 at 5pm, D'Arcy Gray will perform Ariane endormie for solo vibraphone.
Both concerts will take place at Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal.
On the CBC Radio 2 website
You can now listen to Molinari Quartet's world premiere performance of Fonctions vitales, for string quartet, online here : http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/singleConcert.html?20080219molin
Montreal, January 27 2008
The Conseil Québécois de la Musique awards the Opus Prize for Premiere of the Year to L'entreprise de séduction, for cello and chamber orchestra, premiered by Matt Haimovitz and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal conducted by Véronique Lacroix, on May 9th 2007, in Montreal.
Essai sur l'ennui, Hésitations, Ladomir and several other scores can now be purchased online on the website of Edition HH
You can now listen to audio samples on the website of the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec !
TCHAL-KOUYROUK ET LA SEPTIÈME FACE DU CUBE, for orchestra
L'INSTANT D'AVANT, for piano trio
follow this link : http://www.smcq.qc.ca/smcq/doc.f/repertoire/oeuvres/compo/g/
Warsaw, May 9th 2006
The jury of the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers' Competition 2006 awards the Third Prize and the Special Prize for the youngest winner to "Topographie d'un lieu imaginaire", for orchestra.
Montreal, January 22nd 2006
The Conseil Québécois de la Musique awards the Opus Prize "Discovery of the Year" / CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award to Nicolas Gilbert. The Prize comes with a 5000$ award and one year in residence at Radio-Canada (CBC's French Network).
Idées fixes, réminiscences et résidus, for 10 instruments, was just awarded the Serge Garant First Prize in the 2005 SOCAN Young Composers Composition Competition.
August 2005
A review of McGill Symphony Orchestra's performance of Tchal-Kouyrouk et la septième face du cube :
(...) Quant au concert d’hier soir de l’orchestre de McGill, il faut dire que tout ne fut pas à la même hauteur. La pièce de Gilbert montre ce qu’un jeune sait tirer du ventre de la série, avec vigueur. Mieux encore, les idées sont aussi nettes et belles qu’idoinement orchestrées, un art que ce jeune homme ranime ardemment.
François Tousignant, LE DEVOIR, Samedi le 5 mars 2005
Read Guy Marceau's article from the SOCAN magazine Paroles et Musique, (in French) : Nicolas Gilbert : les limites, connais pas !
Reviews of Idées fixes, réminiscences et résidus, for the concert of the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, on November 21st in Toronto :
Nicolas Gilbert's Idées fixes, réminiscences et résidus was a spacious, modular piece, full of wistful monody and percolating ensemble patterns that evoked the sound and swing of Broadway vamps from the fifties. Some sections recurred and reformed in ways that implied large-scale formal symmetries, as well as the everyday action of memory. This airy music was built on a 12-tone melody, yet Gilbert treated his serial method with a witty, promiscuous air.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Montreal-born (in 1979) Nicholas Gilbert led off with his Idées fixes, reminiscences et résidus, a well-crafted piece that developed as a series of episodes built around an initially stated tone row and connected — or rather, separated — by long-held single notes. The episodes turned out to be full of contrasted ideas and energy, though usually with a strong melodic profile.
THE TORONTO STAR, Tuesday, November 23, 2004