L'arc de la lyre 
pour harpe et piano / for harp and piano 
Robert Lemay: compositeur / composer 
Kristan Toczko: harpe / harp 
Jared Tehse: piano 

La composition de cette pièce et la production de cet enregistrement ont été rendues possibles grâce à l'aide financière du Conseil des Arts de l’Ontario (programme Arts du Nord) / The composition of this piece and the production of this recording were made possible with the financial help of the Ontario Arts council (Northern Arts program)

L'arc de la lyre

Point d'équilibre 
Flute & piano 
Robert Lemay: compositeur
Stephen Tam: flute
YoonHye Eunice Park: piano

La partition est disponible chez Note en Bulle Éditions

Point d'équilibre

Falten und Farben (Hommage an Simon Hantaï)
for saxophone ensemble (SSAAATTTBB)
Robert Lemay, composer

zurich saxophone collective
Lars Mlekusch, conductor

Zurich Saxfest 
Johanneskirche, April 4, 2022

Falten und Farben

Pour violon et piano
Duo Gemini (Jean-Frédéric Molard, violon, Jean-Noël Remiche, piano) Festival Osmose 2022 à Bruxelles, Belgique
3 décembre 2022

Fingerprints

De brises en ressac for orchestra
Lutoslawski’s Concert Hall . Warsaw, June, 2006, 
Polish Radio Orchestra (Polska Orkiestra Radiowa). 
Jacka Rogali, conductor

Winner of the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International
Composers’ Competition 2006.

The score is available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/28319

De brises en ressac (for orchestra)

Manu Militari for alto saxophone and flute
Duo Zéphyr
2015 Region 9 conference of the North Americain Saxophone Alliance
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, University of Calgary, 
Calgary AB. February 2015
Score published by Resolute Music Publications RMP1064
http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=24_83_69&product_id=112

Manu Militari (for alto saxophone and flute)

Ensemble vent et percussion de Québec. 
Quebec City, QC, November, 2002
Rene Joly, conductor; Jean-François Guay, saxophone

First prize winner from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium.


Ramallah (for alto saxophone and wind ensemble)

Incertitude for alto saxophone and piano
Rémi Ménard, saxophone; Marc Joyal, piano
From CD Nouvelle musique pour saxophone et piano (SNE 651)
Score published by Resolute Music Publications RMP1034 
http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=24_83_69&product_id=83

Incertitude (for alto saxophone & piano)

Ariana, Kaboul 
Le saxophone métis
Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, 
Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) April 2011
Zachary Pfau, saxophone
Score published by Resolute Music Publications RMP1012
http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=24_83_69&product_id=61

Ariana, Kaboul (for solo alto saxophone)

Centre des Arts Pluriels, Luxembourg, Oct 2007, 
Luxembourg Sinfonietta, Marcel Wengler, conductor

Second prize at International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2007

Instruments:
Soprano Saxophone
Alto Saxophone
Clarinet in Bb
Bass clarinet
Horn
Tuba
Violin 1
Violin 2
Viola
Cello
Doubleness
Accordion
Piano
Percussion

The score is available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/33120

Mare Tranquilitatis III (for chamber ensemble)

Sumner Truax - saxophone
Kurt Eric Galván - piano
Unmarked Turns: La Follia Nuova
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, November 2014

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/22890

Trou noir (for baritone saxophone & piano)

Verticales (hommage à Barnett Newman) 
for saxophone quartet (SATB)
Anubis Quartet 
5-Penny New Music Concerts, Sudbury ON, 2012
Score published by Resolute Music Publications RMP1028
http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=24_83_69&product_id=77

Verticales (hommage à Barnett Newman)for saxophone quartet

Mémoire et oubli.
Yoko Hirota, piano.
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, August 2016.

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/139588

mémoire et oubli

Coups d'archet
12 courtes pièces pour violon solo / 12 short pieces for solo violin
Christian Robinson: violon / violin

Coup d'archet 1. Coup double

Ligne(s) Médiane(s) for oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone & bassoon
Noise-to-signal ensemble
Allen County Public Library
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
March 26, 2017

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/32595

Ligne(s) Mediane(s)

La rédemption … hommage à Martin Scorsese (1994) for saxophone quartet and two percussions
New Music and Arts Festival. Bowling Green, Ohio, November, 1999. 
BGSU Contemporary Ensemble. Mikel Kuehn, conductor

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/13610

La rédemption ... hommage à Martin Scorsese

Kamigluk’s Inukshuit for flute and marimba.
Anick Lessard, flute & Mario Boivin, marimba.
Musique Chez Nous.
Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, November, 2001.

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/22548

Kamigluk’s Inukshuit

Calligramme for 6 saxophones (SAATTB).
2010 ISCM World New Music Days, Sydney, Australia. May, 2010.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music Saxophone Orchestra (dir, Michael Duke).
Score published by Resolute Music Publications: RMP1021.
http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=70

Calligramme (for 6 saxophones)

Quelques tranches de temps (version B for flute, soprano saxophone and clarinet).
International Counterpoint (Jovana Damnjanovic, Megan Bauman, and Lauren Murphy)
Cortona Sessions for New Music, Cortona(Tuscany), ITALY, July 2017

Score available at Note en Bulle Éditions : http://noteenbulle-editions.com/Robert%20Lemay/MC/page5RL-MC-qqstemps-GB.html

Quelques tranches de temps

Metaesquema .. hommage à Hélio Oiticica. 
pour saxophone soprano, saxophone baryton et ensemble .
Ensemble Le Balcon, Maxime Pascal, directeur musical.
Miguel Angel Lorente (soprano saxophone) et Juliette Herbet (saxophone baryton).
Église St Merri, Paris, 22 mai 2010.

Partition disponible au CMC: http://www.musiccentre.ca/fr/node/34717

Metaesquema .. hommage à Hélio Oiticica

Shadows of Bamian.
For saxophone quartet (2 sopranos, 2 tenors).
Proteus Saxophone Quartet.
North American Saxophone Alliance Region 9 Conference, Saskatoon, SK, February 2013.

Score available at the CMC: https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/25291

Shadows of Bamian

Tanze Vor Angst. . . . hommage à Paul Klee
for piano
Yoko Hirota, piano
CD Small is Beautiful: Miniature Piano Pieces
Phoenix Calassical Records

Score available at Note en bulle Éditions: http://noteenbulle-editions.com/Robert%20Lemay/IS/page5RL-IS-tanze-GB.html

Tanze Vor Angst. . . . hommage à Paul Klee

Gelb, Rot, Blau .. hommage à Wassily Kandinsky (version  C)
15th World Saxophone Congress. Bangkok, July 2009
Kenneth Tse:  soprano saxophone
Jean-Michel Goury: alto saxophone
Su-Yen Chee: piano

Score available at Resolute Music Publications:  http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=119

Gelb, Rot, Blau ... hommage à Wassily Kandinsky (version C)

Bas-relief (for baritone saxophone)
Geoffrey Deibel, saxophone
French Pavilion at the University of Zagreb Student Center. 
Zagreb, Croatia.
18th World Saxophone Congress. July 13, 2018

Bas-relief (for baritone saxophone)

KIF KIF for saxophone and snare drum
Robert Lemay, composer.
Performers: Rogue Two (Andrew Allen, saxophone,  & Gordon Hicken, snare drum)
 2020 U.S. Navy Band Sax Symposium
George Mason University's Center for the Arts
 Fairfax, VA. USA
Score: https://noteenbulle-editions.com/index.php?id_product=165&rewrite=robert-lemay-double-fault&controller=product&id_lang=4

KIF KIF for saxophone and snare drum

Mot-clés (for flute)
Composer: Robert Lemay
Flutist: Shannon Lewis

Mots-clés - for flute

Asubakatchin (Capteur de rêves / Dreamcatcher)
for solo piano
Yoko Hirota, piano

Asubakatchin

Tri-angles (3 Etudes for tenor saxophone)

1. Shooting Angle (Angle de tir)@ 0:00
2. Wide Angle (Grand angle)@ 3:50
3. From all Angles (sous tous les angles) @ 7:13

Robert Lemay, composer
Jeffrey Vickers, saxophone
Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA, USA. January 2016

Score: http://www.resolutemusicpublications.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=102

Tri-angles (3 études for tenor saxophone)

Motel Suite (for soprano saxophone & baritone saxophone)
Effiny Saxophone Duo (Susan Fancher & Mark Engebretson)
SUNY/Buffalo Concert Series. Buffalo, NY, February, 2003.

Motel suite 3 - (Paradise Motel)

Motel suite 2  (Sunshine Motel)

Motel Suite 1  (Motel Coconut)

Robert Lemay has composed many works and received numerous international awards. Among recent honors include the second prize from the International Competition Prize Luxembourg 2007 and the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006. Other international prizes include the first prize from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium. In addition, Lemay received three prizes from the CAPAC (presently SOCAN).

His music draws its inspiration primarily from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, political or social events and includes two series of tributes; one to filmmakers and another to abstract painters. 

Lemay has been performed in Canada, the United States, Asia (Japan, South Korea and Thailand), Europe (Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Poland, Belgium and Scotland), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela), Mexico,  Israel & Australia. Many of his pieces have been broadcast on Société Radio-Canada, CBC, Bavarian State Radio, European Broadcasting Union (Luxembourg), Polish National Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Autria and ABC Classic FM (Australia). Twenty of his pieces appear on 18 different CDs in Canada, Europe and USA.

Lemay holds a doctorate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal a master’s degree from Université Laval. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has worked with David Felder and taken part in seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. In France, he worked with François Rossé in Bordeaux and Georges Apergis at the ATEM in Paris.


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