COMPOSER (M. Mus.) and ARRANGER

René Orea’s musical language draws upon the complexity of contemporary compositional techniques while utilizing material from Latin American oral and folk musical traditions. The rhythmic impulses of his roots—often lying just beneath the surface—combined with a distinctive approach to timbre and texture, create a musical world that is by turns vibrant, dynamic, and visceral, and at other times 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.

• 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).

• 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).

 

Master's Thesis in Composition

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