Denis Poliquin completed his studies in 1979 at Quebec City's Conservatoire de Musique where he was unanimously awarded the first prize in guitar. As a fellow of the Canada Council of Arts, he attended the Banff School of Fine Arts where he studied with K. Wheeler and D. Holland. In 1984 and 1986, he won first prize in composition at the Carrefour mondial de la guitare in Martinique. He has played as a soloist at the Toronto Guitar Festival, Quebec City's Festival d'été, the Saint-Malo Jazz Festival as well as on Radio-Canada. He taught for more than eight years in Quebec conservatories and at Collège Notre Dame. Since 1979 his name has been associated with the Domaine Forget where he works as a teacher and coordinates guitar and jazz training sessions. He is also director of the Académie de Guitare de Montréal. In 1996, his accomplishments as a composer and arranger earned him a commission from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec to write a piece for 20 guitars, to be entitled "Au jour le jour".