Nicolas Gilbert

Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past preparation

Imagine a plain canvas on which the brush-strokes can be distinguished. A whole life is present there, yet only a single colour. There are no directions - neither a beginning nor an end, it appears. O...

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Exhausted, Ariadne fell asleep. She is dreaming, probably about the Labyrinth. Her sleep is agitated, her dream confused, incoherent. Ariadne is not safe. Even in sleep, she is afraid of something. I,...

The structural focus of this work is the gradual process of inversion of a simple musical phrase. But the ‘polar inversion' referred to in the title has a meaning beyond the purely musical, sugg...

You are trying to remember an image. Only details come back to your mind. From those details, you must reconstitute the whole. You memory is blurred. You mix memories, you believe that what is merely...

In a moment, you will jump. You have but a few seconds to deliberate, to calculate, to concentrate. Just enough time to count to twelve. What if time stopped at that exact moment?

Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past.

This work was commissioned by saxophonist Jean-Marc Bouchard, member of the Quasar saxophone quartet. It was composed during the Summer of 2003 in residence at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur i...

This work was commissioned by New-York based clarinettist Thomas Piercy. It was composed in residence at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, in Montreal, with funds from the Canada Arts Council. L...

L'argile, la forme, le ravin du monde (Argil, shape, the world's ravine), can be read Le matériau, la forme, le Tao (Material, shape, Tao). There are but four ingredients: my fetish tone row, a very l...

The rules surrounding its worship were to be respected: never interrupt the twelve-tone row, never make irreverent remarks about it, never look at another system of pitch- organization, apply the mode...

Idées fixes, réminiscences et résidus was commissioned by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal with funds from the Canada Arts Council. The work was premiered by the ECM and its conductor Véronique L...

Highly interesting contemporary work also accessible to players with limited technique.

Soprano solo.

Soprano solo.

Exhausted, Ariadne fell asleep. She is dreaming, probably about the Labyrinth. Her sleep is agitated, her dream confused, incoherent. Ariadne is not safe. Even in sleep, she is afraid of something. I,...

Idées fixes, réminiscences et résidus was commissioned by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal with funds from the Canada Arts Council. The work was premiered by the ECM and its conductor Véronique L...