Composition Collection

First movement of a three movement concerto for recorder and double bass.  Composed in 2014 for the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, North Bay Symphony and the Georgian Bay Symphony.  

Concerto pour flute À bec Et contrebasse I

This is a one minute short composition exploring sound, texture and colour.  

Lueurs miniatures des lucioles

The quartet paints the picture of the effects of a commercial society on the mind, body and soul:  the effects of psychological, physical and spiritual pressures resulting from a society that projects and promotes competition, materialism and extremist individualistic tendencies.  

Quatuor à cordes #1

Oisillons de la nuit

First piece in a collection of seven titled Toiles.  

Danse des feuillues

Third piece in the collection of seven pieces titled Toiles.  Depicts the northern lights.   

Jeux de lueurs verdâtres

Fourth piece in a collection of seven titles Toiles.  

Ballade des feuilles d'automne

Fifth piece in a collection of seven titled Toiles.  

Ruissèlement printanier

Sixth piece of a collection of seven titled Toiles.  

À la dernière heure d'automne

The seventh piece of a collection of seven titles Toiles.

La chasse des hirondelles

First piece from a set of short piano pieces for intermediate players.  Explores syncopation and rhythms found in reggae music.

A little Reggae Music

Second piece from the Caribbean Suite for piano.

Calypso

A short 2 minute fanfare commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as part of the SESQUIE 150 project.  The piece is a tribute to the first responders of the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016.  O'Canada is quoted in the slow sections.

Hero's Fanfare

One of five dances from the Caribbean Suite for solo piano.

Little Café Havana

The second movement of my first trio for violin, cello and piano.  It is an ode to the great Dimitri Shostakovich.  Inspired by his fugue from the Op. 57.

Fugue from Trio #1

A solo piano piece based on the French folk song Auprès de ma blonde.  This piece is from a set of pieces based on the novel La quête d'Alexandre.

Auprès de ma blonde

L'incertitude

Towards Silver Linings

Fourth piece in the set of five short pieces with a Caribbean feel.

Just Situations

Fifth dance from the suite Caribbean Suite.  Inspired by the music from the musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein.

Caribbean's West Side

Luc studied music composition at the University of Ottawa with Steven Gellman and John Armstrong.  He graduated with a Master's degree in music composition in 2004.  Luc's work is highly influenced by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Ravel and Debussy.

Luc's music has been performed across Canada and the US by such artists as Jean Desmarais, Julian Armour, Denise Djokic, Renée-Paule Gauthier, Zacharie Fogal,   Thomas Jones, The NOVO ensemble and the Timmins Symphony Orchestra. 

Luc works closely with the Timmins Symphony Orchestra, not only as a contrabassist, but also as a composer.  The TSO has performed a number of his orchestral and chamber works over the last five years.  In April 2014, Luc’s new concerto for recorder and double bass was premiered in Timmins.  This same concerto was also performed by the Georgian Bay Symphony.  

In 2016, Luc was commissioned by the North Bay Symphony Orchestra to write a new work for the 40th anniversary of the NBSO.  Towards Silver Linings was premiered in February 2017.  

As part of the SESQUIE new works project directed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Luc’s Hero’s Fanfare was premiered by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on June 2nd 2017.

Composition Collection

Composer Luc Martin