Deeply fascinated and inspired by the connections between different forms of artistic expression, Maxime Goulet works within various realms of musical creation, ranging from opera to video game.

Concert Music

Maxime Goulet is curently composer in residence at the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, in part of the Brott Music Festival. His concert music, includes prodjects such as Citius, Altius, Fortius!, an olympic-themed orchestral opening, performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Art Center Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony, as part of the Symphony Splash 2010; Bungalopolis, a cabaret-oepra based on a comic book by Jean-Paul Eid, produced by Codes d'Acces (participation as composer, conceptor and artistic director); A Puppet Parade, an orchestral suite inspiered by the marionnettes of Micheline Legendre, peformed by the Ensemble Euterpe and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, in part of the Brott Music Festival; The Devil at the Spinning Wheel, a musical tale with narrator, peformed throughout Canada, as part of a Jeunnesses musicales of Canada tour; What a Day, a piece for string ensemble, performed by the McGill Chamber Orchestra and the Ensemble Arkea; On a tight Rope, a piece for string orchestra or for organ, performed in Switzerland by Yves G. Préfontaine, in part of the Orgues et cimes festival.

Maxime Goulet is an Associate composer at the Canadian Music Center. He is curently working on two new orchestral works for his residency with the National Academy Orchestra of Canada.

Music for Media

Maxime Goulet also eagerly composes for different media.  Intrigued by the potential of interactive music, he is currently a senior composer at Gameloft, a video game company for whom he pens a number of scores such as the Dungeon Hunter serie, Shrek Forever After, Iron Man 2, Brothers in arms 2: Global Front, Prince of Persia Zero (mobile), Order and Chaos, Ghost Mansion Party, Tank Battles and Legend of Exidia. Furthermore, he has scored many films, such as Leap, directed by Dan Gaud and produced by Arsenic Films; Running, recorded by the Victoria Symphony, in part of the New Currents Festival of Music (score winner of the Reel Music 2008 and winner of the first prize at the SOCAN Film Scoring Award); and La Prescription du Bonheur (in 3D), directed by Patrick Peris.

Maxime Goulet is currently working on a the score for the feature film Daylight, directed by Dan Gaud and produced by Judd L. Tilyard and Ayz Waraich (Dimeworth Films). Further more, as composer and conceptor, he is working on The Montreal Video Game Symphony, a multi-media event that combines the power of the symphony orchestra and the immersive and interactive world of gaming.

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, at the Orchestration for Film Workshop in New York with Scott Smalely, and at the 2009 ASCAP Flim Scoring Workshop in Los Angeles where he recorded his music with the Hollywood Studio Symphony.