Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: biography
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal, Québec, 1975)
• residence: Huddersfield, England, UK
• composer • performer (electric bass)
Introduced in his childhood to classical guitar and sight singing, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay will plunge body and soul into composition and bass guitar in his teenage. It is in the teeming cultural Montreal of the nineties that the young composer will forge a personal language, under the good guidance of Jean-Guy Larin, Michel Tétreault, Michel Donato and Marcelle Deschênes, to complete his bachelor degree in composition at the Université de Montréal in 1998.
Pierre Alexandre will then pursue his musical path under the supervision of Jonty Harrison in the creative England of the beginning of the millennium, obtaining his Ph.D. in electroacoustic composition from the University of Birmingham in 2005. Since then, he lectures composition at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
In parallel to this academic path, he will form in 1996 the contemporary jazz ensemble [iks], that he still leads, and with whom he will tour Europe, America and Africa. With this ensemble that has six album to date, he practices improvisation on his instrument and, more recently, on real-time processing devices. He is also frequently in studio for collaboration with popular music artists, as producer as well as session bassist.
With these aesthetic approaches that he considers complementary, Pierre Alexandre now seek to hybrid them in a single coherent poetic language. He spends his spare time (sic) reading, taking pictures and with his family. Founding member of the no-tv collective, he does not own a working television set.
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
