A composer and sound designer, Roxanne Turcotte (Montréal, 1960) holds a master’s degree in electroacoustic composition from the Université de Montréal, where she studied under Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont. After piano studies at the conservatory and the Université de Montréal, she specialized in composition and music technology. Her musical approach rests on a film-like art of integration. She has published about ten recordings and a few papers. She has given many concerts with a number of music ensembles, including the Dionne-McCandless-Turcotte Trio in 1988 and has toured Canada and Belgium. She also contributes to the creation and performance of music for television, film, radio, web, the stage and the circus. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Her electroacoustic works are performed in many countries (Germany, France, Belgium, USA, Italy…).
Roxanne Turcotte has won prizes from the International New Music Composers Competition (USA, 1987, ’89), the silver medal (1985) and the gold medal (1989) of SOCAN’s Hugh Le Caine award (Canada) and was a finalist at the Luigi Russolo International Competition (Italy, 1989).
Amore was selected by the Canadian Music Council for the Journées mondiales de la musique / World Music Days in Oslo in 1990.
The full version of Amore was presented on November 7th, 2002 during the festival Project-son produced by GMEM in Marseille (France).
In 1989 the album of Kaméléon, the group she co-founded, is among the finalists at the ADISQ. In 1985 she realizes the sound and visual installation Y---W with photographer Marc Larochelle during the 100 jours d’art contemporain à Montréal with the help of the Canadian Council for the Arts. In 1994 she contributes the work Hémisphères, written for a photographic installation by Martine Doyon, to the Palomar exhibition. In 1996 she takes part to the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival with Minisérie and Olé-Léa-Léo. In 1994 she realizes Sons et tintamarre (a theatre work for young public presented by the Jeunesses musicales du Canada) with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. In 1997 she takes part to the Francis Dhomont-led collective work Frankenstein Symphony, produced by the Asphodel label (New York). In 1999, the work Libellune is presented at Futura in Crest (France) and in the Acousma Femina series of the Festival Aujourd’hui Musiques 2000 in Perpignan (France). In 2000, Roxanne contributes to the Montreal Highlights Festival with the multimedia work DMXnébula (in collaboration with lighting designer François Doyon). In the summer of 2000 Rêveries absolues is premiered at the Festival Synthèse in Bourges (France). The cybermusical piece Poussière d’étoiles is premiered in 2002. Mères et monde is premiered on June 10th, 2003 at the Festival Synthèse (Bourges, France).