Keiko Devaux

Keiko Devaux is a Montréal-based composer who is known for her work that blurs boundaries between musical genres as well as between acoustic and electroacoustic sound.[1]

Keiko Devaux
Born1982
Castlegar, British Columbia
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversité de Montréal
Known forMusical composition
AwardsAzrieli Commission for Canadian Music
Websitehttps://keikodevaux.com/

She was born in Castlegar, British Columbia to a Japanese-Canadian mother and French father in 1982, and raised in the town of Nelson.[2] In the 2000s, Devaux was active in the Canadian indie rock scene composing, touring, and recording albums in groups such as Ottawa group The Acorn, which she joined in 2006,[3][4] and Montréal-based People For Audio and Adam and the Amethysts. In 2017 she earned a Master of Music in instrumental composition from the Université de Montréal with a thesis on the topic of "Musical 'translations' of experience through the interpretation of extra-musical forms and patterns".[5] In 2019 she was the recipient of the inaugural Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, the largest prize for new music composition in Canada.[6] In 2020 she was awarded a two-year residency at the National Arts Centre Orchestra as a Carrefour composer. Her recorded work Arras (Analekta)[7] was nominated in the 2022 Juno award category of classical composition of the year[8] and she won Quebec's prize for composer of the year from Conseil arts et lettres de Quebec and OPUS in 2022.[9] She is currently completing a doctorate in music composition (Composition et création sonore) at Université de Montréal under the direction of Ana Sokolović and Pierre Michaud.

Notable Works

Devaux is known for her unique use of extra-musical sources: she often engages in processes of transcription and translation in her music composition, with a focus on what she calls “emergence and the memory of sound".[10][11]

Her process often includes taking recordings of acoustic sound, manipulating these sounds through electroacoustic processes, and then re-translating these sounds back into acoustic instrumentation.[12]

Arras (2020) for 14 musicians [fl (picc.), ob, cl (bcl), bn, hn, tpt, tbn, perc, pno, 2vn, va, vc, cb]. 24m. Premiered by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne at Salle Bourgie, Montréal.[13]

Dust (2019) for string quartet. 11m. Premiered by Quartetto Prometeo at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy.[14]

À perte de vue... (2018) for symphony orchestra. 9m. Premiered by l’Orchestre de l'Université de Montréal under the direction of Walter Boudreau at La Maison Symphonique, Montréal QC.[15]

Tenebræ (2018) for string quartet. 7m. Commissioned by Musica Assoluta. Premiered by members of the Musica Assoluta Ensemble in Hannover, Germany.[16]

Salt (2018) for string quartet. 9m. Premiered by Quartetto Prometeo at the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy.

Ebb (2018) for 15 musicians [fl, hb, cl, b.cl, bsn, hn, tp, tbn, pno, perc, 2vln, vla, vlc, db]. 15m. Commissioned and premiered by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne at Bain Mathieu, Montréal.

kintsukuroi (2018) piano, percussion, and alto saxophone. 10m. commissioned by Code d’accès. Premiered by Kimihiro Yasaka, David Therrien-Brongo, and Louis-Philippe Bonin at Le Gesù, Montréal.

Ombra (2018) concerto for 5-string baroque cello and string orchestra. 13m. Commissioned and premiered by Ensemble Arkea and soloist Elinor Frey), under the direction of Dina Gilbert at la Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montréal.

References
  1. ROULOT-GANZMANN, HÉLÈNE (2018-11-29). "L'OUM emmène Cendrillon à Berlin". nouvelles.umontreal.ca (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. Steenhuisen, Paul. "Episode 53: Interview with Keiko DEVAUX". SoundLab Podcast. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  3. "The Acorn Family Affairs | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  4. "The Acorn: 'Hold Your Breath'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  5. Devaux, Keiko (2022-03-01). "Musical 'translations' of experience through the interpretation of extra-musical forms and patterns". 4
  6. "The AMP Community". The Azrieli Foundation. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  7. AN 2 9263 (2022-03-01). "New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes".
  8. Monaco, Tony (2022-03-01). "Nominations For The 2022 Juno Awards In Toronto".
  9. "Des prix Opus à saveur pandémique". La Presse (in French). 2022-03-06. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  10. Belair, Camille Kiku. "Azrieli Commission winner, composer Keiko Devaux reflects on the debut of Arras". The WholeNote. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  11. Höstman, Anna (January 2022). "HEADLESS MUSICAL SEEDS AND GESTURES WITH ADJECTIVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KEIKO DEVAUX". Tempo. 76 (299): 5–17. doi:10.1017/S0040298221000619. ISSN 0040-2982.
  12. "Keiko Devaux". SMCQ. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  13. "Concert gala des Prix Azrieli de musique 2020". Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (in French). 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  14. "La musica del futuro immaginata dai compositori chigiani". Siena News (in Italian). 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  15. "Cendrillon à Berlin". SMCQ. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  16. "Beim Jupiter! Musica Assoluta startet in die Saison". NP - Neue Presse (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-26.
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