Concert Music

Deeply fascinated and inspired by the connections between different forms of artistic expression, Maxime Goulet works within various realms of musical creation.  His concert music, which ranges from chamber music to music for full orchestra, includes an olympic-themed work commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (for the upcoming 2010 games), a music synchronized to film for the Victoria Symphony (winning score of Reel Music 2008), a marionette-inspired suite for orchestra commissioned by the Ensemble Euterpe (published by GAM Editions), a musical tale (played throughout Canada, as part of a Jeunnesses musicales of Canada tour), a piece for solo piano inspired by painting (played during the Jusqu’aux oreilles/Up to your Ears festival), as well as a text by Hubert Reeves set to music for the Arthémuse choir and orchestra.

Incidental Music

Maxime Goulet also eagerly composes for different media.  Intrigued by the potential of interactive music, he is currently employed by Gameloft, a video game company for whom he pens a number of scores. Furthermore, he has collaborated on many film, theatre and dance projects, which have been heard on television, on the big screen and on stage. As an arranger and orchestrator, he has worked for film-composer Robert Marcel Lepage.  In the course of their most recent collaboration, Maxime Goulet orchestrated a piece that was performed by the CBC Radio Orchestra, conducted by Alain Trudel, and broadcast by Radio-Canada.

Education

With musical versatility as his foremost concern, Maxime Goulet has sought to acquire a solid yet broad and diversified musical foundation.  Along this path, he has studied instrumental composition, film-score writing, guitar and jazz arrangement under the tutelage of James Gelfand, Denis Gougeon and Alan Belkin at the Cégep de Marie-Victorin (D.E.C.) and at the University of Montreal (BMus and MMus).  As a part of his ongoing development, Maxime Goulet participated in the Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop, directed par Gary Kulesha, in addition to master classes at the Festival international du film d'Aubagne in France, and at the Orchestration for Film Workshop in New York.