1972 : Bachelor in piano. 1974-75 : “Premier Prix” in music analysis and composition crowning his studies with Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. 1975-78 : Advanced studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne (Germany) and Henri Pousseur in Liège (Belgium). Back in Montréal, shares his time mainly between composition and teaching. 1997 : Doctorate in composition. 1997-2015 : teaches composition and analysis at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Organizer or coordinator for new music events; collaborator for public radio programs; author of several articles in specialized periodicals; member of numerous jurys, panels and councils; co-founder of the Cette ville étrange web site; etc.

Composed works for many ensembles and soloists, Québec- or Canada-based, and international. His music has often crossed the borders. Frequent collaborations with choreographers, visual artists, writers.

1994 : Serge-Garant Prize of the Fondation Émile-Nelligan, for the body of his work. Three of his compositions have been nominated for the “Création de l’année” Opus Prize.

Rooted in music postmodernism and integrative serial techniques, his music developed and found its own synthesis between sophisticated construction and a desire for simplicity and formal evidence.

Among his recent works : L’hypothèse Caïn, a 2-hour long « operatic proposition » for 8 singers and 13 instrumentalists; Chansons du bonhomme de chemin, a concert song cycle for 2 voices and ensemble; Henricare’s Flight, for Toronto’s New Music Concerts; Cantate de la dette perpétuelle for Aventa Ensemble in Victoria; etc.