Charles-Vincent Lemelin

Montreal-based, Quebecer composer and orchestrator Charles-Vincent Lemelin holds an undergarduate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal and pursues a master’s degree under the direction of Ana Sokolović. His music is inhabited by the nature and territory of his country: the St-Lawrence river, its winters and springs. His writing is characterized by slowness, micropolyphony and the use of sound masses. He is interested in the ties between politics and aesthetics in a perspective of "emancipatory carnivalisation". He is currently working on a “jig-ballet” for chamber orchestra which depicts the Mi-Carême —a Quebecer and Acadian carnivalesque masked tradition—, in which Quebec’s jig (contemporary as well as traditional) is featured as a musical instrument. ‌