Performed by Duo Dubois.
Ciclo Continuo (2021) for soprano saxophone & percussion:
prepared snare drum, singing bowls, tuning forks, crotale.
Composition Ciclo Continuo seeks to achieve a hybrid organic timbre while associating atypical instruments to complement each other. A snare drum is used as a resonating body for the objects. The snare drum's wire also serves as a saturation effect changing the timbre of metallic instruments and also reacting to the saxophone's sound. Dyads and multiphonics are predominant in the saxophone part while pitched, but very fragile and unstable sounds are used in the percussion section. Harmony is enriched with beatings creating synergy between musicians, unfolding timeless processes. The duo plays the cycle that is on loop, an endless repetition devoid of narration, a basso continuo of an
unsung aria.

Ciclo Continuo

Commissioned by Gabriel Trottier for his ph.d in performance at L'université de Montréal. This is a live take recorded at the studios there. 

All electronics are live and react directly to how Gabriel is playing through the use of score following.

Stadig fjernare, bort. Fjernare og stadig nærmere - 2021 - Excerpt

blickblink (2021) für Streichtrio

I. Tap on the Shoulder
II. Squint
III. Toil and Bloom
IV. Unter der Lupe
V. Flowers that glow
VI. Totoni
VII. Swirl Whirl
VIII. Tickly

Violin: Lilli Schmitt
Viola: Theresa Wagner
Cello: Clara Dietze

blickblink

[ENGLISH BELOW]

Le chant du goglu des prés, un oiseau vivant dans les forêts québécoises, a inspiré la compositrice Suzanne Hébert-Tremblay à écrire cette pièce pour cor seul.  

Gabriel Trottier, cor
Enregistré en janvier 2022 au Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal.
Prise de son: Nataq Huault

Enregistrement publié avec l'aimable autorisation de Suzanne Hébert-Tremblay.

Pour acheter la partition, veuillez contacter le Centre de Musique Canadienne: https://cmcquebec.ca

Merci au Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien pour la réalisation de ce projet.

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The song of the bobolink, a bird living in Quebec forests, inspired composer Suzanne Hébert-Tremblay to write this piece for solo horn.

Gabriel Trottier, horn
Recorded in January 2022 at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal.
Sound recording: Nataq Huault

Recording published with the kind authorization of Suzanne Hébert-Tremblay.

To purchase the score, please contact the Canadian Music Centre: cmcquebec.ca

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting this project.

2022

S. Hébert-Tremblay: Par les soirs bleus d'été

Ensemble TM+ et les étudiant.e.s du Pole Sup de Boulogne Billancourt dirigé.e.s par Laurent Cuniot.
Salle d'art Lyrique du Conservatoire de Boulogne Billancourt le 16 Avril 2023.

retrouver la nuit - pour Ensemble (2023)

« Les larmes sont dans la nature des choses. » (Virgile, Énéide)

Le trompettiste Noé Nillni a conçu ce programme de musiques de chambre contemporaines comme un voyage à travers des œuvres d’esthétiques et de rhétoriques diverses, mais réunies par leur théâtralité et par une commune question de poétique instrumentale : comment penser, composer, et jouer la trompette dans un esprit chambriste, l’habillant pour un rôle qui lui a souvent été étranger ?

2. Ricardo Nillni : Les larmes sont dans la nature des choses, pour trompette et violoncelle (2020)

Podcast portræt af komponisten Bára Gisladóttir produceret af Birgitta Tollan.

Portræt af komponisten Bára Gisladóttir

As with every good western millennial, the first thing I ever learned to do was to consume and want more. Sugar here is, of course, exemplary of the nefarious yet completely socially accepted poison of consumerism, which also ties into the dual nature of the sweet tooth: sweets make us smile because of their sugar and their often oh-so-cute presentation and depiction, but they also rot our teeth, and in a most insidious fashion! What a beautiful metaphor for happy neoliberalism…

In this post-truth age, image is everything: candy is food and advertisements depict real life. A major chord means happy emoji, a minor chord means sad emoji. How does this affect our grasp of deeper connection through art? I wanted to play with these codes and clichés and to see how I could harvest their energy to highlight the violence hidden behind each major chord.

Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+)
Véronique Lacroix, cond.
Jeff Stonehouse, flutes 
Martin Gauvreau, clarinets
Antoine St-Onge , bassoon, 
Laurence Latreille-Gagné, French horn
Olivier Maranda, percussion, 
Hubert Brizard + Geneviève Liboiron , violins
Valérie Arsenault, viola 
Chloé Dominguez, cello

Sunday November 11, 2018
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada

SWEET TOOTH (2018) - excerpt

Seiren
According to Greek and Roman mythology, Seiren is a seductive sea creature in the form of part woman part bird. There are old tales of sailors enchanted by the creature’s beautiful and haunting singing that eventually lured them to wreck their boats onto rocks. The interacting images of the creature, the human, and the sea are depicted by the three instruments of the trio: flute/alto flute, cello, and piano. This work explores many different instrumental colors and extended effects. Dramatic use of dynamics and provocative high melodic lines are also used to portray a lyrical yet intensely mysterious character of Seiren.
This track is extracted from CD "The Mysterious Boot". Performers:
Susan Hoeppner, Flute; Winona. Zelenka, Cello; Lydia Wong, Piano
Alice Ho

Seiren - music for flute, cello and piano by Alice Ping Yee Ho

Seizing To Be Ceased - performed by the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble

"...tu n'étais pas que déjà tu n'es plus" est, en plus d’être une oeuvre autonome, la quatrième pièce du cycle "4 mélodies pour cuivres seuls", inspiré du poème "À Mary" de Gérald Godin.

Cor : Alec Michaud-Cheney
Composition : Jules Bastin-Fontaine

Enregistrement dans l'Atelier lyrique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal le 10 décembre 2020.

...tu n'étais pas que déjà tu n'es plus

[ENGLISH BELOW]

Gabriel Trottier est un corniste soliste, chambriste et musicien d’orchestre interprétant un répertoire allant de la musique ancienne à la musique actuelle sur instruments historiques et modernes. De plus, il est porteur de projets de commandes d’œuvres et participe à des projets interdisciplinaires qui allient à la musique des éléments d’autres disciplines artistiques, tels que le théâtre et 
les arts visuels.

Présentement membre de l’Ensemble Tesse, Gabriel Trottier travaille aussi régulièrement avec la Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec ainsi qu’avec plusieurs orchestres et ensembles québécois. À l’international, il a joué entre autres avec des ensembles tels que l’Oslo Sinfonietta et le quintette à vent Le Concert Impromptu (Paris). Diplomé de la Norwegian Academy of Music (M. Mus 2016) et de l’Université de Montréal (D. Mus 2021), il a étudié sous la tutelle de Frøydis Ree Wekre, Julius Pranevicius, Saar Berger et Louis-Philippe Marsolais. Spécialisé en musique contemporaine, il a été fellow de l’International Ensemble Modern Academy (M. Mus 2018), en Allemagne et il a participé à l’Académie du Festival de Lucerne. Son travail a été soutenu, entre autres, par le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) et la Fondation Sylva-Gelber pour la musique. 
Gabriel Trottier vise à encourager et soutenir l’innovation dans l’écriture d’œuvres pour le cor, en contribuant à la recherche et en diffusant le savoir sur l’histoire de la musique ainsi que sur les nouvelles pratiques artistiques. En ce sens, ses activités professionnelles incluent aussi l’enseignement, l’interprétation de la musique mixte et l’improvisation. 


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[ENGLISH]

Gabriel Trottier is a solo, chamber and orchestral horn player who performs baroque to new music on modern and historical instruments. In addition, he initiates the commissioning of new works and participates in interdisciplinary projects that bring together music with other art forms, including theater and visual arts. 

Currently a member of Ensemble Tesse, Gabriel Trottier also frequently works with the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec as well as many orchestras and ensembles in the province. Internationally, he has worked with the Oslo Sinfonietta and the woodwind quintet Le Concert Impromptu (Paris), among others. A graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music (M. Mus 2016) and the University of Montreal (D. Mus 2021), he studied under the tutelage of Frøydis Ree Wekre, Julius Pranevicius, Saar Berger and Louis-Philippe Marsolais. Specializing in contemporary music performance, he was a fellow at the International Ensemble Modern Academy (M. Mus 2018) in Germany and is an alumnus of the Lucerne Festival Academy. His work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ) and the Sylva-Gelber Music Foundation.	

Gabriel Trottier aspires to support innovation within the creation of new works for the horn and by contributing to research. Further, he aims to disseminate the knowledge of music history and new artistic practices. In that way, his professional activities also include teaching, live electronics, and improvisation.

S. Hébert-Tremblay: Par les soirs bleus d'été

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