Eric Morin

Education

University of Toronto. Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.

Career

He has been commissioned to write works by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Born in Montreal, Morin is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Gilles Tremblay, He pursued graduate studies at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 1998 where he earned a Master of Music in composition and was a student of Gérard Grisey. He then entered the doctoral music composition program at the University of Toronto in the Fall of 1998.

After completing his degree, he studied at the IRCAM where he took courses in musicology and 20th-century music

Morin was appointed composer-in-residence of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in May 2000, a position he held for two years. In September 2000 he joined the faculty of Université Laval where he is currently a professor of music composition and orchestration.

Achievements

• He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his Doctorate"un Château l"autre and the Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio National Competition for Young Composers which he won twice.