André Luc Desjardins

Born in Lévis, Quebec, in 1955, ANDRÉ LUC DESJARDINS started piano lessons at the age of six at the Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague boarding school (Quebec City), and entered piano festivals and competitions at an early age. After his secondary studies, although he registered at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec and took all the compulsory instruction he was given -- adding copious doses of pop music himself -- he experienced a deep philosophical change, and eventually started working in electroacoustic music with Pierre Genest and Yves Daoust.

Electroacoustic music became a way of life, offering, as it did, millions of possibilities at one’s finger tip. The young composer found in electronic music the possibility of listening and re-listening to a particular piece, but, more important, the possibility, for the composer, to express a message through the musical ear, rather than through the ancient paperwork channels of today.

André Luc Desjardins, who has degrees both from the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec and the Faculté de Musique de l’Université de Montréal, won a prize at the XIIth Concours International de musique électro-acoustique de Bourges with his work Manu Militari.