Maxime Goulet (composer)

The concert music of Maxime Goulet has been performed by a wide range of ensembles and musicians in countries around the world, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,[5] the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,[6] the Vancouver Opera,[5] the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Houston Symphony,[7] the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,[8] the Orchestre Régional de Basse Normandie,[9] the National Art Center Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec,[10] the Orchestre Métropolitain,[11] the Pacific Opera Victoria,[12] the Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel,[13] Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà.[14]

Some of Goulet's works entered David Daniels' Orchestral Music Handbook.[15]

In 2008, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissions him the overture Citius, Altius, Fortius![16][17] to celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2017, the work is featured on the album Les plaisirs coupables of the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra, as well as on the album Jean-Willy Kunz: Au grand orgue Pierre-Béique, published at ATMA Classique.[18]

In 2011–2012, as part of the Brott Music Festival, he was Composer-in-Residence for the National Academy Orchestra of Canada.[19] During his residency, he composed Symphonic Chocolates, an orchestral suite meant to accompany chocolate tasting.[20] In 2014, the work is recorded by the Prague FILMharmonic orchestra and released on the album Chocolats symphoniques.

In 2013–2014, he was Composer-in-Residence for McGill Chamber Orchestra.[21] During his residency, he composed the clarinet concerto Fishing Story.[22]

In 2017, he composed a movement of the collective work La Symphonie d'Hochelaga, commissioned for the 375th anniversary of Montreal and premiered by Orchestre Métropolitain.[23]

That same year, he was also commissioned, for the 150th anniversary of Canada, to compose United Anthems, an orchestral mashup of 35 national anthems from around the world, as part of a Canada-wide project launched by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.[24][25][26][27]

In 2018, he composed a piano concerto titled Checkmate and inspired by the legendary 1996 match, in which IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was commissioned and premiered by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and pianist Lara Downes.[28][29]

His opera The Flight of the Hummingbird, on a libretto by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Barry Gilson, commissioned by the Vancouver Opera and the Pacific Opera Victoria, was premiered in 2020.[30]

In 2020, he published the song cycle Micro Meteo as a series of short videos[31]

Between 2007 and 2013, Maxime Goulet has been staff composer for Gameloft.[32] During his tenure, he wrote music for video games such as Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War,[33] The Amazing Spiderman, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, Dungeon Hunter 4[34], Order & Chaos Online, Wild Blood, Shrek Forever After and Iron Man 2.

Since 2013, Maxime Goulet has been working as a freelance video game composer. He has composed music for games such as Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, Roller Coaster Tycoon World and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.

In 2017, along with Orchestre Métropolitain and conductor Dina Gilbert, he created The Montreal Video Game Symphony, a multimedia concert that features music of games developed in the city of Montreal[35][36]