Michel Corriveau (born June 29, 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores from

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

. He has received multiple nominations and awards throughout his career for Canadian and international films and TV productions

Biography

Based in

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

, Michel Corriveau was raised in Grand-Mère,

."« Omnitudes », le nouvel album de Michel Corriveau est déjà en vente"
''Lien Multimédia'', May 5, 2018. His maternal grandfather, Philippe Filion, was an orchestral conductor for whom the main concert hall at the Centre des arts de Shawinigan in

Shawinigan Shawinigan (; ) is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,620 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) ...

is named, and served as lieutenant chief of music for the Department of National Defense. His musical career started in 1986 when he joined Luba's band as a keyboardist and accordionist. At the same time, he worked on multiple projects with keyboardist Jean-Alain Roussel, including albums by

Céline Dion Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the " Queen of Power Ballads", Dion's powerful, technically skilled vocals and commercially successful works have had a significant impact on popular musi ...

, Corey Hart and Martine St-Clair. Over the years, he composed the music for international advertising campaigns, including for

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation, doing business as McDonald's, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain. As of 2024, it is the second largest by number of locations in the world, behind only the Chinese ch ...

, and for over 50 Canadian and international movies and television series. He has received multiple nominations for his work at the

Genie GEnie (General Electric Network for Information Exchange) was an online service provider, online service created by a General Electric business, GEIS (now GXS Inc., GXS), that ran from 1985 through the end of 1999. In 1994, GEnie claimed around ...

and Canadian Screen Awards, the Quebec Cinema (Jutra/Iris) Awards, the

Gemini Awards The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's English-language television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in th ...

and the Prix Gémeaux, as well as winning awards from the Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du QuébecDaniel Lemay
"La SPACQ honore espoirs et bâtisseurs"
'' La Presse'', September 24, 2014. and the

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 175,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collect ...

."Gala de la SOCAN: Robert Charlebois recevra deux prix spéciaux"
'' La Presse'', September 27, 2017. He now works with his son, Jérémie Corriveau. In addition to his work in film and television, he has also released two albums as a composer of

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a Music genre, genre of Western art music in which composers use recording technology and audio signal processing to manipulate the timbres of Acoustics, acoustic sounds in the creation of pieces of music. It originated a ...

, ''Omni'' (2014) and ''Omnitudes'' (2018)."« Omnitudes », le nouvel album de Michel Corriveau est déjà en vente"
''Lien Multimédia'', May 5, 2018.

Filmography

Films

Series

Awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Corriveau, Michel 1962 births Living people Canadian accordionists 20th-century Canadian keyboardists 20th-century Canadian composers 21st-century Canadian composers Canadian film score composers Canadian television composers Canadian male composers Musicians from Quebec People from Shawinigan Canadian rock keyboardists