GASNIER'S ORGANIC
"Music making for me is an extension of who we are and that will definitely reverberate to the ears of the listener.
An essential and sacred daily work is activated while never forcing anything; listen to and decode the morning music that hovers all around and inside. Instrumental or vocal music, scripted images are immediately put into construction to give a logical and artistic common thread to finally become a story. Lyricism, the fantastic, the sacred, the history and the languages of the peoples nourish and fascinate me, coming to life with harmony in a simple and true musical language.
Normand Gasnier, composer
Composer born in Alma, Quebec, Canada. From a musician father coming from popular and folk music, with the classical and lyrical music he worked on, all these influences have forged his musical universe.
He studied music at Cégep d'Alma (guitar, piano and violin) then composition with François Morel and orchestral conducting at Laval University in Quebec as well as Gregorian chant and sacred music in England and in France.
An eclectic composer, since 1998 he has made albums of world music, popular music and sacred music. It was in 2007 that he decided to devote himself above all to conducting and composing orchestral, choir and opera music.
He was notably founder and musical director of the Société Harmonique de Québec from 2007-2010 (name of the first orchestra in Canada founded in 1820 by his German ancestor Frédéric Glackmeyer) and in 2011 of the Kosmopolite Orchestra of Paris. In 2012 he was the founder and conductor of the Choeur Fidélys d'Alma and directed in 2013-2015-2017 the great choir of La Gaillarde, Alliance des chorales, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (150 to 250 choristers). Totally devoted to the creation of operas, he composes the music, writes the libretto, directs the stage and conducts the music. .In 2015 he produced his first opera Rabb i and The New World in 2017. The year 2019 was marked by the successes of vinland and the return of Rabbi in an international version at the Festival Opéra de Saint-Eustache with the lead role of baritone Hugo Laporte as Jesus, soprano Chantal Dionne as Marie and mezzo Armine Kassabian as Marie-Madeleine.
His music is a flood of images describing the inspiration of the subject treated with emotions and harmonies, a universal cinematic style.