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Born in 1955, André Hamel has been active as a composer in Montreal since the mid-1980s. He also taught composition and theoretical subjects there from 1997 to 2023. For the past year and a half, he has been living in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, where he continues his career as a composer. He is as interested in creation as in its production conditions. A member of the artistic committee of the SMCQ from 2000 to 2018 and the board of directors of the Canadian Music Centre in Quebec from 2013 to 2025, he has been involved in several organisations, including the Société des concerts alternatifs du Québec (now Codes d’Accès), of which he was a founding member, the Conseil québécois de la musique, and the Groupe Le Vivier. He is also part of the collective Espaces sonores illimités, (ESI www.espacessonoresillimites.com ) alongside Alain Dauphinais and Alain Lalonde.
André Hamel's works have been performed both in Canada and internationally, with his music being heard in over fifteen countries. He has received numerous commissions, awards, and distinctions. He was a three-time winner of the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine (1st place in 2018, 2nd place in 2016 and 2009) and won the Prix Opus de la création de l’année three times (2016-2017, 2012-2013, 1997-1998 – Conseil québécois de la musique). He was also awarded the Prix Opus du Compositeur de l’année (2015-2016), which came with a grant from the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec. In 2012, he received the prestigious Serge Garant Composition Prize (Émile-Nelligan Foundation), and in 2000, he was awarded the Prix Joseph-S.-Stauffer (Canada Council for the Arts). He received a special mention in 1997 at the Goffredo Petrassi International Composition Competition (Arturo Toscanini Foundation, Parma, Italy). The multidisciplinary production Urnos, for which he composed the entire musical score, was recognised with a Prix Opus in 2010-2011, and his albums La trilogie du presto (Atma) and Les musiques d’Urnos (actuelleCD) were also nominated in 2006-2007 and 2016-2017, respectively. In June 2007, his saxophone octet À huit was selected among the recommended works at the International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO). From 1 July to 31 December 2003, André Hamel held a residency at the Studio du Québec in New York.
Since 1990, he has participated in several collective projects, including Échos vides / Échos vastes (Espaces sonores illimités, ESI – August 2020), Traces dans l’espace (Montreal, September-October 2016), Fanfares in situ (Montreal, June 2012), the multidisciplinary production Urnos (2004, reprised at the Montréal Nouvelles Musiques festival (MNM) in 2011), Spatio lumino presented by ESI at the opening of MNM 2007, the sound garden Le Sonarium (Flora, CMCQ – 2006), the collective projects La Symphonie des Éléments (MNM – 2005), Fanfares (FIMAV, ESI – 2005), and La Symphonie du Millénaire (SMCQ – 2000), to name just a few.
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