Background
Provost was born in Saint-Timothée de Beauharnois, Quebec.
Provost was born in Saint-Timothée de Beauharnois, Quebec.
Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
He has been "recognized as one of the most active Quebec composers of his generation."
He also studied the organ with Bernard Lagacé. He is a professor of composition and analysis at the CMQM where some of his notable pupils have included composers Patrick Saint-Denis and Nicolas Gilbert. His second string quartet, Ventis-Arboris-Vocis garnered praise from the international press
He "has also written many articles, particularly for the revue Circuit and the Encyclopédie de la Musique Einaudi.".
He studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM), where he won first prize for composition in 1979 and musical analysis in 1978. He went on to study in France at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won first prize in analysis in 1981. One of his notable works is Le Vampire et la Nymphomane, "an opera for which he received the 1996 Prix Opus".
