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'''Gilles Tremblay''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OQ}} (6 September 1932 – 27 July 2017) was a Canadian composer from [[Quebec]].

==Early life and education==
Tremblay studied at the conservatories of [[Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal|Québec in Montréal]] and Paris (1954–61), where his teachers included [[Olivier Messiaen]] (analysis), [[Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger]] ([[counterpoint]]), [[Yvonne Loriod]] (piano), and [[Maurice Martenot]] (inventor of the [[ondes Martenot]]).{{sfn|Mather|2001}}{{sfn|Beck|2017}} He also attended [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen]]'s [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse|summer courses at Darmstadt]], where he became interested in [[Electroacoustic music|electro-acoustic]] techniques.{{sfn|Huss|2017}}

==Career==
Tremblay returned to Quebec in 1961. He taught musical analysis at the {{ill|Centre d'arts Orford|fr}} and at the [[Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec|Conservatoire de musique du Québec]] in Quebec City.{{sfn|Huss|2017}} Beginning in 1962, and for many years, he taught composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Among his pupils are {{ill|Serge Arcuri|fr}}, [[Raynald Arseneault]], [[Yves Daoust]], [[François Dompierre]], Marc Hyland, [[Ramon Lazkano]], [[Robin Minard]], [[Éric Morin]], [[Silvio Palmieri]], [[Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux]], {{ill|Isabelle Panneton|fr}}, [[André Villeneuve]], [[Claude Vivier]], and Wolf Edwards.{{sfn|Lefebvre|2018}}

Early in his career he performed as a specialist on the ondes Martenot.{{sfn|Orton and Davies|2001}}

In 1991, he was made an Officer of the [[National Order of Quebec]].

Tremblay died August 4, 2017, at [[Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce]].{{sfn|Beck|2017}}

==Compositions (selective list)==
*''Mobile'', for violin and piano (1962)
*''Champs I'', for piano and 2 percussionists (1965)
*''Cantique de durées'', for seven groups of instruments (1960)
*''Sonorisation du [[Québec Pavilion|Pavillon du Québec]]'', 24-channel electronic music (1967)
*''Souffles (Champs II)'', for 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, 2 percussionists, and contrabass (1968)
*''Vers (Champs III)'', for 2 flutes, clarinet, trumpet, horn, 3 percussionists, 3 violins, and contrabass (1969)
*''Jeux de solstices'', for orchestra (1974)
*''Oralléluiants'', for soprano, bass clarinet, horn, 2 percussionists, and 3 contrabasses (1975)
*''Fleuves'', for piano, percussion, and orchestra (1976)
*''Vers le soleil'', for orchestra (1978)
*''Le Signe du lion'', for horn and tam-tam (1981)
*''Triojubilus "À Raphaël"'', for flute, harp, and cowbells (1985)
*''Les Vêpres de la Vierge'', for soprano and orchestra (1986)
*''Musique du feu'', for piano and orchestra (1991)
*''L'arbre de Borobudur'', for horn, 2 harps, double bass, ondes Martenot, 2 percussionists, and gamelan ensemble (1994)
*''L'espace du coeur (Miron-Machaut)'', for mixed voices and percussion (1997)
*''Les pierres crieront'', for cello and large orchestra (1998)
*''A quelle heure commence le temps?'', for baritone, percussion, piano, and orchestra (1999)
*''L'appel de Kondiaronk: symphonie portuaire'', environmental work for battle sirens and 2 locomotives (2000)
*String Quartet ''{{'}}Croissant{{'}}'' (2001)
*''En partage'' (Concerto), for viola and orchestra (2002)
*''L'eau qui danse, la pomme qui chante et l'oiseau qui dit la vérité'', [[Opéra féerie]] based on "[[The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird]]" (2009)

==Writings==
* 1968. "Note pour ''Cantique de durées''." ''Revue d'esthetique'' 21, nos. 2–4 ("Musiques nouvelles"): 51–58.

==References==
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'''Sources'''
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Beck|2017}}|reference=Beck, Gordon. 2017. "[https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/composer-gilles-tremblay-has-died-at-85 Composer Gilles Tremblay Has Died at 85]". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' (29 July; accessed 8 July 2019).}}
*{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Huss|2017}}|reference=Huss, Christophe. 2017. "[https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/504579/gilles-tremblay-la-mort-du-patriarche Gilles Tremblay, la mort du patriarche]". ''[[Le Devoir]]'' (31 July; accessed 8 July 2019).}}
* {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Lefebvre|2018}}|reference=Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. 2018. "[http://smcq.qc.ca/smcq/fr/artiste/tremblay_gi/Gilles_Tremblay/biographie Gilles Tremblay]". Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (18 January; accessed 8 July 2019).}}
*{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Mather|2001}}|reference=Mather, Bruce. 2001. "Gilles Tremblay". ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers.}}
*{{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Orton and Davies|2001}}|reference=Orton, Richard, and Hugh Davies. 2001. "Ondes martenot". ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers.}}
*[[Joan Peyser|Peyser, Joan. 1976]]. ''Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma''. New York: Schirmer Books. {{ISBN|0-02-871700-7}}; London: Cassell. {{ISBN|0-304-29901-4}}
*Villeneuve, André. 2001. "''Souffles (Champs II'', the Mobile, and the Musical Language of Gilles Tremblay." ''Ex tempore'' 10, no. 2 (Spring–Summer): 58–147.

==Further reading==
* Auzolle, Cécile. « De la résurgence du merveilleux : l'exemple de L'Eau qui danse, la Pomme qui chante et l'Oiseau qui dit la vérité, un opéra de Gilles Tremblay et Pierre Morency. » Circuit, volume 20, numéro 3, 2010, p. 9–42. {{doi|10.7202/044859ar}}

==External links==
* [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gilles-tremblay-emc "Gilles Tremblay"] by Robert Richard (2006); [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gilles-tremblay "Gilles Tremblay"] by Alexis Luko, Rachelle Taylor, Hélène Plouffe (2008) ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]''
* [http://composers21.com/compdocs/tremblag.htm "Gilles Tremblay"], The Living Composers Project

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