Linda Bouchard was born on 21 May 1957 and is a Canadian composer and conductor.
17 Facts About Linda Bouchard
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Linda Bouchard has a BA in music and an MMus in composition.
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Linda Bouchard's teachers were Ransom Wilson, Sue Ann Kahn, Harvey Sollberger, David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg, and Elias Tanenbaum, Ursula Mamlock and Henry Brant.
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Linda Bouchard has cited Henry Brant as a major influence in her music.
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Linda Bouchard has experimented with different spatial placements of performers, both as a composer and as a conductor.
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Linda Bouchard's music is characterized by timbral explorations and percussive explosions.
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Linda Bouchard went to the US in 1977 to study composition with Henry Brant.
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Linda Bouchard lived in New York City from 1979 to 1990, where she composed, led new music ensembles, and made orchestral arrangements for The Washington Ballet, Orchestra of St Luke's, and various churches in the New York metropolitan area.
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Linda Bouchard was Assistant Conductor for New York Children's Free Opera from 1985 to 1988 and guest-conducted the Orchestra of St Luke's, the American Dance Festival, the New York New Music Ensemble and others.
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In 1991, Linda Bouchard returned to Montreal in time for the world premiere of her composition "Elan" with l'Orchestre Metropolitain.
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Linda Bouchard was composer-in-residence from 1992 to 1995 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada.
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In 1999, Bouchard received first prize for "Composer of the Year" from le Conseil Quebecois de la Culture and the Joseph S Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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In 2005, Linda Bouchard founded New Experimental Music, Art and Production, a nonprofit arts organization that explores the intersection of traditional artistic practices and new technologies.
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Linda Bouchard was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley during the Spring 2016,.
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Linda Bouchard's score is used for architecture tours in San Francisco, Berlin and London.
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In September 2017, Linda Bouchard received a multiyear grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to "Research and Create".
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Linda Bouchard's project titled "Live Structures" will unfold over the next two years with collaborations and partnerships with Francois Houle, Philippe Pasquier at Metacreation in Vancouver, Lori Freedman and Sandeep Bhagwati at Matralab in Montreal and with Kyle Bruckmann in San Francisco.