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Gabriel Thibaudeau |
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Gabriel Thibaudeau was born in Beauharnois, Québec, in 1959. He studied piano at the Vincent d'Indy school of music and composition at the music faculty of the Université de Montréal. He also participated in several summer workshops at the Orford Arts Centre where he worked with composers Iannis Xenakis, Micheline Coulombe-Saint-Marcoux and Nil Parent. Appointed composer and pianist at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, he ranks as one of the great specialists in silent film accompaniment in Canada. Having acquired an international reputation, he has frequently been invited since the beginning of the 1990's in Italy, the United-States and Finland.
In 1990, he composed his first score for silent films, commissioned by the Cinémathèque Québécoise for Julian Rupert's film The Phantom of the Opera. The premiere was held at Place des Arts in Montreal in November of that year. This symphonic score as well as its piano octet version was performed in Europe, the United-States and in Canada. The Victoria Symphony Orchestra (B.C.) programmed it for tis 2005-2006 season. Other scores for a variety of instrumentations were written for such films as John Ford's Straight Shooting, John Epstein's La chute de la maison Usher, Wallace Worsey's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Eric von Stroheim's Foolish Wives.
In 1998, during the Cannes Film Festival, the famous Director's Fortnight commissioned an original score from him for Paul Leni's film The Man Who Laughs. After the prestigious evening in Cannes, he embarked on a world tour with the Octuor de France traveling through such great cities as Tokyo, New York, Bologna, Athens, Paris, Boston, Barcelona, Rome, Minsk and Montreal.
His recent works for silent films include chamber music scores for The Iron Mask by Allan Dwan (in 2003) and for Julien Duvivier's Poil de Carotte (in 2004), presented in Tours (France) during the De l'Encre à l'Écran festival. He composed a work for Angèle Dubeau and la Piétà to accompany D.W. Griffith's film Broken Blossoms, presented at the Théâtre Saint-Denis in Montreal in December 2000. He also composed a work for octet, piano, percussion and soprano for Julien Duviver's film Au bonheur des Dames which won him the Château-Pape-Clément prize, the Coup de c?ur International historical film festival held in Pessac, France. In september 2005, for the Toronto Film Festival, Thibaudeau created a new score for Nanook of the North, featuring a flute quartet, percussion, soprano, bass singers and 2 Inuits throat-singers. The french newspaper L'Humanité qualified the evening of "unforgettable".
His ballet for symphony orchestra based on the Tchaïkovsky opera La Dame de Pique, performed by the Montreal Grands Ballets Canadiens since October 2001, was received with great acclaim and success notably in New York, Europe, Mexico, and of course Montreal.
During the spring of 2003, Musica Camerata of Montreal premiered Les Bijoux, a work written for piano, string trio and narrator. In September of that same year, he conducted the McGill Chamber Orchestra in a performance of his Requiem for string orchestra and soprano.
