Alain Perron
Associate Professor
Media, Art, and Performance
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Born in Cap-Santé, near Quebec City, Dr. Alain Perron studied oboe and composition in Trois-Rivières and Quebec City. He obtained his Master’s Degree in 1989 at Laval University under the supervision of François Morel. In 1993 he received two prestigious grants, one from SSHRC (Canada) and one from FCAR (Québec), to study with the renowned composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland, where he received his doctorate in 1996. He has taught Composition at the University of Regina since July 2002, where he is also the Music Director of the University Orchestra, the Composition New Music Ensemble and the U of R New Music Ensemble. Perron has received numerous first prizes for his compositions for orchestra, including the Sir Ernest MacMillan Prize from SOCAN, the du Maurier New Music Festival in Winnipeg and the Mosaïco Music Festival Prize in Korea. He has also received many commissions from prestigious orchestras and ensembles such as the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montréal), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Jugendkammerorchester (Stuttgart), the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, the Quatuor Claudel and the Sinfonia de Lanaudière, the Molinari String Quartet, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), the Nouvel Ensemble à Cordes de Québec, the Nelligan Quartet, Rocco Parisi (Italy), the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, the National Youth Choir, the Claudel String Quartet, the Rubbing Stone Ensemble (Calgary), the Ensemble Transmission (Montreal) and several from the Société Radio-Canada and CBC. In 2009 and 2011, he was nominated for the Western Canadian Music Awards under the category “Classical Composition of the Year.”
Research Interest
Music composition (instrumental/vocal); Orchestration and Instrumentation; Electronic and Electroacoustic music; Conducting (symphonic orchestra/new music ensembles); Performance (oboe/English horn); Musical analysis 20th-21st century
