Maxime Goulet (composer)

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Maxime Goulet (composer)
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Goulet in 2017
Background information
Born (1980-06-07) June 7, 1980 (age 41)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Composer
Years active2007–present

Maxime Goulet (born June 7, 1980) is a Montreal-based Canadian composer who writes concert music as well as video game soundtracks. He currently teaches composition at the University of Sherbrooke.[1] in Quebec, Canada.

Early life and education[]

Maxime Goulet was born and raised in Montreal, Canada to a French speaking family. He studied music composing at Université de Montréal[2] with Alan Belkin. He earned his B. Mus. in 2005 and his Master's degree in 2007. Later, he attended several trainings and master classes, namely at the Festival international du film d'Aubagne in 2007,[3] and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles in 2009.[4]

Career[]

Concert music[]

The concert music of Maxime Goulet has been performed by a wide range of ensembles and musicians in countries around the world, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,[5] the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,[6] the Vancouver Opera,[5] the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Houston Symphony,[7] the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,[8] the Orchestre Régional de Basse Normandie,[9] the National Art Center Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec,[10] the Orchestre Métropolitain,[11] the Pacific Opera Victoria,[12] the Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel,[13] Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà.[14]

Some of Goulet's works entered David Daniels' Orchestral Music Handbook.[15]

In 2008, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissions him the overture Citius, Altius, Fortius![16][17] to celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2017, the work is featured on the album Les plaisirs coupables of the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra, as well as on the album Jean-Willy Kunz: Au grand orgue Pierre-Béique, published at ATMA Classique.[18]

In 2011–2012, as part of the Brott Music Festival, he was Composer-in-Residence for the National Academy Orchestra of Canada.[19] During his residency, he composed Symphonic Chocolates, an orchestral suite meant to accompany chocolate tasting.[20] In 2014, the work is recorded by the Prague FILMharmonic orchestra and released on the album Chocolats symphoniques.

In 2013–2014, he was Composer-in-Residence for McGill Chamber Orchestra.[21] During his residency, he composed the clarinet concerto Fishing Story.[22]

In 2017, he composed a movement of the collective work La Symphonie d'Hochelaga, commissioned for the 375th anniversary of Montreal and premiered by Orchestre Métropolitain.[23]

That same year, he was also commissioned, for the 150th anniversary of Canada, to compose United Anthems, an orchestral mashup of 35 national anthems from around the world, as part of a Canada-wide project launched by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.[24][25][26][27]

In 2018, he composed a piano concerto titled Checkmate and inspired by the legendary 1996 match, in which IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was commissioned and premiered by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and pianist Lara Downes.[28][29]

His opera The Flight of the Hummingbird, on a libretto by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Barry Gilson, commissioned by the Vancouver Opera and the Pacific Opera Victoria, was premiered in 2020.[30]

In 2020, he published the song cycle Micro Meteo as a series of short videos[31]

Video game music[]

Between 2007 and 2013, Maxime Goulet has been staff composer for Gameloft.[32] During his tenure, he wrote music for video games such as Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War,[33] The Amazing Spiderman, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, Dungeon Hunter 4[34], Order & Chaos Online, Wild Blood, Shrek Forever After and Iron Man 2.

Since 2013, Maxime Goulet has been working as a freelance video game composer. He has composed music for games such as Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, Roller Coaster Tycoon World and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.

In 2017, along with Orchestre Métropolitain and conductor Dina Gilbert, he created The Montreal Video Game Symphony, a multimedia concert that features music of games developed in the city of Montreal[35][36]

List of works[]

A selection of concert music composition by Maxime Goulet.

Orchestral works[]

  • 2007: A Puppet Parade
  • 2008: Citius, altius, fortius!
  • 2012: Symphonic Aerobic Dance
  • 2012: Symphonic Chocolates[37]
  • 2014: On Halloween Night
  • 2017: United Anthems
  • 2017: Symphonic Factory
  • 2017: Beach Ball Games for Orchestra[37][38]
  • 2023: Ice Storm Symphony[39]

Concertante[]

  • 2014: Fishing Story for Clarinet and String Orchestra
  • 2016: Beatles Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
  • 2017: A Bassoon Circus for Bassoon and Orchestra
  • 2018: Checkmate! for Piano and Orchestra[37]

Operas[]

  • 2012: Bungalopolis (collective work)
  • 2020: The Flight of the Hummingbird[37]

Chamber music[]

  • 2004: Watercolour for Piano
  • 2005: The Wool-Spinning Devil for Narrator, Clarinet, Cello and Piano
  • 2006: On a Tightrope for String Quartet
  • 2011: What a Day for String Orchestra
  • 2014: Concertized Introductions for String Orchestra
  • 2015: Level Up! for Keyboard and String Orchestra
  • 2020: Micro météo for Tenor and Piano[39]

List of game music[]

A selection of video games for which Maxime Goulet has composed music (as main composer or as additional music composer).

Video games
Year Title Developer Notes
2007 Schlag den Raab Gameloft
2008 Prince of Persia Zero Gameloft
Abracadaball Gameloft
Uno Gameloft
2009 Tank Battles Gameloft
Ghost Mansion Party Gameloft
Castle Frenzy Gameloft
Siberian Strike Gameloft
2010 Dungeon Hunter 2[37] Gameloft
Shrek Forever After[37] Gameloft
Iron Man 2[37][38] Gameloft
Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front[37][38] Gameloft
Legend of Exidia Gameloft
Eternal Legacy Gameloft
2011 Dungeon Hunter 3[37] Gameloft
Dungeon Hunter: Alliance[37] Gameloft
Order & Chaos Online[37] Gameloft
BackStab Gameloft
The Adventures of Tintin Gameloft
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man[37][39][40][38] Gameloft
Ice Age Village Gameloft
2013 Dungeon Hunter 4[37] Gameloft
Wonder Zoo Gameloft
2014 Wild Blood Gameloft
Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War[37][38] Gameloft
The Amazing Spider-Man 2[39][40][38] Gameloft
Magical World of Words Amarok Games
2015 Splash Pop Frima
2016 Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade[37][39][38][40] Behaviour Interactive
Roller Coaster Tycoon World[37][40] Nvizzio & Atari
2017 Rise of Madness Amarok Games
Mini Guns Riposte Games
2019 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Panache Digital Games Additional music by Maxime Goulet (on an original theme by Mamo Koba[41])

References[]

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  2. ^ "Université de Montréal", Wikipédia (in French), September 21, 2020, retrieved September 21, 2020
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