COMPOSER (M. Mus.) and ARRANGER

René Orea’s music worlds range from contemporary compositional aesthetics to simpler and more accessible musical languages, often exploring elements drawn, among other sources, from Venezuelan and Latin American musical traditions. Rhythmic challenges, together with a distinctive treatment of timbre and texture, make his music a universe that is at times vibrant, dynamic, and visceral, and at others atmospheric, meditative, and spiritual.

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• Associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

• Master’s degree in composition from the Université de Montréal (class of Ana Sokolovic), following initial self-taught training.

• Around fifty works, most of which have been performed (Canada, United States, England, Germany, Switzerland, France, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela).

• Arrangements for various ensembles, notably the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Bjergsted Orkester (Norway), and the National Orchestra of Lima (Peru).

• Creative projects funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and UNESCO-Aschberg.

• First Prize at the composition competition of the 1st Latin American Flute Meeting (Caracas, 2000) and the 2005 Étoiles-Galaxie Award from Radio-Canada/Musique Multi-Montréal.

• Artist residencies: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2001), MAI (Montréal arts interculturels, 2006), and Maison de la culture d'Ahuntsic, Montreal (2018).

• Creator and director of the project Akiamanys: envols oniriques en Amérique du Sud (premiere: April 2019, Festival Babel Musiques, Montreal).

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Master's Thesis in Composition

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