Florence M. Tremblay is a composer, cellist and singer from Rimouski, currently based in Montreal. She holds a bachelor's degree in cello from the Conservatoire de musique de Rimouski, where she studied with James Darling, and a master's degree in instrumental composition from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where she studied with Nicolas Gilbert.
In her creative work, she is interested in interactions, principles of gamification, and the transfer of models and processes borrowed from different disciplines. Her interest in interdisciplinary collaborations has led her to work with poets, visual artists, an herbalist, and dancers. In 2022, she received the Grand Prize of the SOCAN Foundation Young Canadian Composer Award. Since then, she has received commissions from Concerts aux Îles du Bic, New Music Concerts (Toronto), the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra, Quasar saxophone quartet, ArtChoral ensemble, the Orchestre symphonique de l'Estuaire, and the wind quintet 5ilience. In 2024, she received the Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation Career Development Grant.
In 2021, she co-founded the Société régionale des musiques rares, an organization supporting and producing new music in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. As a performer, she sings with the ArtChoral ensemble and plays cello with the Orchestre symphonique de la Côte-Nord. She also conducts creative workshops at the Camp musical Père Lindsay and as part of the Espace Transition program, in collaboration with Sainte-Justine Hospital and the Orchestre de l'Agora.
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Florence M. Tremblay is a composer, cellist and singer from Rimouski, currently based in Montreal. In her creative work, she is interested in interactions, principles of gamification, and the transfer of models and processes borrowed from different disciplines. In 2022, she received the Grand Prize of the SOCAN Foundation Young Canadian Composer Award. Since then, she has received commissions from Concerts aux Îles du Bic, New Music Concerts (Toronto), the Drummondville Symphony Orchestra, Quasar saxophone quartet, ArtChoral ensemble, the Orchestre symphonique de l'Estuaire, and the wind quintet 5ilience. Outside of her work as a composer, she co-founded the Société régionale des musiques rares in 2021, she performs as a chorister with the ArtChoral ensemble and as a cellist with the Orchestre symphonique de la Côte-Nord.