Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 18, 2001
• Invested on: February 22, 2002

This native of Trois-Rivières has achieved international success, dazzling performers and audiences alike with his radiant compositions. A composer of the greatest artistic calibre, he is known for the spontaneity, originality and purity of his works, which are part of the current repertoires of our finest Canadian orchestras, and are among the Canadian compositions most frequently performed abroad. As a great educator at the Université du Québec à Montréal, he shared his passion with the goal of training the next generations of artists.