Myke Roy (born 2 July 1950) is a Canadian

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and

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. An associate of the

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and a member of the

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, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of

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, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre. In 1976 he was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award/Fellowship by the

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for his works ''Sveln'' (piano and synthesizer), ''Dra-men Dzunkt'' (8 performers or more) and ''Tsé Tnant/Te Deum'' (17 amplified instruments and tape). In 1987 he won the Robert Fleming Prize.

Education

Born in

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, Roy began his musical education at the École supérieure de musique de Nicolet where he studied from 1970 to 1972. He pursued further studies at the

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where he earned a

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in 1975, a

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in 1980, and a

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in 1989. One of his principal teachers at the UM was

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Career

Roy began his career as a recording engineer in 1972. In 1974-1975 he worked with

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and Mario Bertoncini at

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's Electronic Music Studio. He was also employed at the Université de Montréal as a technician from 1974 to 1977. While there he notably worked on the Grand prix du disque de l'Académie Charles-Cros winning LP ''Games and Songs''. In 1983 Roy joined the faculty of the

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where he taught courses in acoustics, electroacoustics and aural perception and served as the head of the school's electroacoustic music laboratory through 1986. In 1987 he returned to the Université de Montréal to become coordinator of the electroacoustic department, He served as vice-president of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community from 1987 to 1989. Roy has also worked as a sound technician for concerts presented by the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec and the

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. He has also occasionally contributed articles on electronic music to music publications, including the 1989 article 'Le Statut de professionnel pour le compositeur/diffuseur d'électroacoustique' in ''

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'' magazine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Myke 1950 births Living people Canadian audio engineers Canadian composers Canadian male composers Université de Montréal alumni Academic staff of the Université de Montréal Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières