All works: © Jérôme Blais
Beauséjour (2021), for woodwind quintet. Watch movie by Chris Simpson:
Mouvance (2016-2018) (Multimedia show based on contemporary Acadian texts), for soprano Suzie Leblanc. Premiered January 2019, Halifax, repeated February 2019, Montreal, August 2019, Saint-Jacques, Québec.
In D (2018), for piano trio. Commissioned by the Lunenburg Academy of Musical Performance. Premiere November 2018 by Mark Fewer, violin, Adrian Brendel, cello, Walter Delahunt, piano.
Licks (2018), for orchestra. Commissioned by the Dalhousie Symphony. Premiere December, 2018 by the Dalhousie Symphony, conducted by Leonardo Perez.
Conductus 16 (2018), for large chamber ensemble, open instrumentation (dur. : var.). Premiere: by Quasar Saxophone Quartet and Upstream Saxophone Ensemble (USE), March 2018, Halifax.
Keep me… (2015), for violin, piano and percussion (dur.: var.)
Conductus 4 (2014), for conductor and improvising instrumental ensemble (dur.: var.
Le Miroir d’argent (2012), for soprano and chamber ensemble (dur.: 10 min.)
Soliloque 4.0 (2012), for solo violin (dur.: 8 min.)
Songs for Milena (2008-2011), for soprano and orchestra (dur.: 35 min.)
Conductus 3, for conductor and instrumental/vocal ensemble (dur.: var.)
Dremlen Feygl Oyf Di Tsvaygn (2009) (Yiddish folk song, arrangement, orchestral version) (dur.: 10 min.) Text by Leah Rudnitsky; melody by Leyb Yampolsky (?)
Premiere: by Janice Jackson and Symphony Nova Scotia, conducted by Bernhard Gueller, Halifax, January 7, 2010.
Mouvance (An improvisation and declamation of Gérald Leblanc’s Mouvance) (2009) (dur.: 7 min.)
– Work included on the 2013 East Coast Music Association (ECMA) Award winning Best Classical Recording Between the Shore and the Ships
– Work nominated for 2013 ECMA Best Classical Composition
Premiere: by Helen Pridmore and Wesley Ferreira, Grand Pré National Historic Site, NS, January 2010. [Text excerpted from Géomancie, published by l’Interligne (Ottawa); used with permission]
Blanches, Surtout (2009), for voice (soprano) and gamelan (dur.: circa 12 min.) Text by Léonard Forest. Premiere: by Paula Rockwell and the Mindful Flower Gamelan, Wolfville, January 2010:
Plugged 1.2 (2002), for solo amplified harpsichord (dur.: 10 min.)
Commissioned by the Sound Symposium of Saint John’s, Newfoundland; premiered by Mary O’Keeffe, Saint John’s, Newfoundland, July 2002. Subsequent performances: by Mary O’Keeffe, Saint-John’s, Newfoundland, February 2005; by Cynthia Hiebert, Kitchener-Waterloo, September 2005; by Cy Giacomin, Halifax, September 2007. Radio broadcast: CBC, September 2002.
Plugged 1.1 (2002), for solo amplified marimba (dur.: 10 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by Charles Duquette, Montreal, May 2002. Subsequent performance: by Clare MacDonald, Halifax, September 2007.
Con Stella (2001), for piano, with one or many instrument, ad libitum (dur.: var.)
Premiered by Jérôme Blais, piano and Jean-Marc Bouchard, bass saxophone, Montreal, March 2001. Subsequent performances: by J.B, piano, J.-M.B, bar. sax., Marie-Noël Laporte, violin, Delphine Measroch, cello and Jean-Félix Mailloux, double bass, Montreal, April 2001; by J.B., piano, Bozzini String Quartet and Quasar Saxophone Quartet, Montreal, May 2002; by J.B., piano and J.-M.B., saxophone, Toronto, May 2002; by J.B., piano, Montreal, August 2002; by J.B., piano and J.-M.B., saxophone, Montreal, 2003; by Barbara Pritchard, piano, Saint-John’s, Newfoundland, November 2004; idem, Sackville, NB, January 2005; By Simon Docking, Halifax, December 2005; by Toca Loca ensemble, Toronto, February 2009. Radio broadcast: SRC, October 2002. CD recording: by Barbara Pritchard, Centrediscs label.
Blues for Hank (2000), for one or two harpsichords (dur.: 7 min.)
Commissioned by the symposium The Harpsichord Then and Now; premiered by Hank Knox and Jérôme Blais, Lennoxville, QC, February 2001. Subsequent performances: by H. K. and J. B., Montreal, May 2001; by the Montreal Organ Consort, Montreal, April 2002. Radio broadcast: CBC, May 2002.
Dona Nobis . . . (2000), for two solo voices, children’s (or women’s) choir and percussion (dur.: 12 min.)
Commission by Innovation en Concerts; premiered by the Dalhousie Chamber Choir, Gary Ewer, dir., Halifax, November 2005.
Transfuges (2000), for one or many instruments (dur.: var.)
Premiered by the Jahbar Ensemble (pno, sax., bass), Montreal, May 2000.
Parcours (1999), for piano and one melodic instrument (dur.: 12 -15 min.)
Premiered by Luc Leclerc, piano and Sylvain Houle, alto saxophone, Montreal, May 2003. Subsequent performances: by Luc Leclerc, piano and Érik Boucher, alto saxophone, Montreal, May 2004; by Simon Docking, piano and Wallace Halladay, alto saxophone, Halifax, October 2004; by Erik Ross, piano and Scott Good, trombone, Toronto, March, May 2005; by Erik Ross, piano, and Wallace Halladay, Saxophone, Toronto, November 2005; by the Glenn Gould School Contemporary Music Ensemble, Toronto, March 2008.
Ludi (1998), for bass clarinet, trumpet, percussion, double bass (dur.: 9 min.)
Commissioned and Premiered by the Array Music Ensemble, Toronto, May 1998. Subsequent performance: by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of the University of Montreal, Montreal, April 1999.
Soliloque égaré (1998), for string quartet (dur.: 14 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by the Bozzini String Quartet (formerly Euterpe), Montreal, April 1998. Subsequent performances: Bozzini quartet, Montreal, October 2000; idem, Montreal, December 2000; idem, Montreal, February 2001; idem, Lennoxville, QC, May 2001; idem, Montreal, September 2001; idem, New York City, September 2001. Radio broadcasts: SRC, 2001.
Chanson pour Pépin (1997), for alto saxophone and percussion (dur.: 10 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by Jean-François Guay, saxophone and Julie Béchard, percussion, Quebec City, January 1998. Subsequent performances: idem, Sherbrooke, QC, January 1998; idem, Montreal, February 1998.
Le voyageur insomniaque (1996), for flute, cello and percussion (dur.: 12 min.)
Commission and premiered by the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, March 1997. Subsequent performances: by the ECM, Montreal, March 1997; idem, Montreal, March 1999; by the Continuum ensemble, Toronto, February 2001; by the Scotia Festival of Music, Halifax, June 2006; by Michelle Cheramy, flute, Nathan Cook, cello and Marcus reddick, percussion, Penfield, GA, November 2006.
Le jour transfiguré (1995), for saxophone quartet (dur.: 14 min.)
Commission and premiered by the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, Montreal, April 1996.
Suite Dionysos (1995), for chamber orchestra (dur.: 25 min.)
Premiered by the Musica Nova ensemble, Lennoxville, QC, November 1996.