Concert MusicDeeply fascinated and inspired by the connections between different forms of artistic expression, Maxime Goulet works within various realms of musical creation. His concert music, includes prodjects such as Citius, Altius, Fortius!, an olympic-themed orchestral opening, performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Art Center Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony, as part of the Symphony Splash 2010; Bungalopolis, a cabaret-oepra based on a comic book by Jean-Paul Eid, performed by Prana, and produced by Codes d'Acces; A Puppet Parade, an orchestral suite inspiered by the marionnettes of Micheline Legendre, peformed by the Ensemble Euterpe and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada, in part of the Brott Music Festival; The Devil at the Spinning Wheel, a musical tale with narrator, peformed throughout Canada, as part of a Jeunnesses musicales of Canada tour.
Maxime Goulet is currently working on a instrumental piece for chamber orchestra commissioned by the McGill Chamber Orchestra.
Music for MediaMaxime Goulet also eagerly composes for different media. Intrigued by the potential of interactive music, he is currently employed by Gameloft, a video game company for whom he pens a number of scores such as Brothers in arms 2: Global Front (iPhone/iPod), Ghost Mansion Party (Nintendo Wii), Battle Tanks (Play Station 3), Prince of Persia Zero (mobile), Dungeon Hunter (iPhone/iPod), Legend of Exidia (Nintendo DSi) et Siberian Strike (iPhone/iPod). Furthermore, he has scored many films and theatre projects, such as the music of the movie Leap, directed by Dan Gaud and produced by Arsenic Films; and the music for the movie Running, recorded by the Victoria Symphony, in part of the New Currents Festival of Music and winner of the Reel Music 2008. As an arranger and orchestrator, he has worked for film-composer Robert Marcel Lepage. In the course of their most recent collaboration, Maxime Goulet orchestrated a piece that was performed by the CBC Radio Orchestra, conducted by Alain Trudel, and broadcast by Radio-Canada.
EducationWith musical versatility as his foremost concern, Maxime Goulet has sought to acquire a solid yet broad and diversified musical foundation. Along this path, he has studied instrumental composition, film-score writing, guitar and jazz arrangement under the tutelage of James Gelfand, Denis Gougeon and Alan Belkin at the Cégep de Marie-Victorin (D.E.C.) and at the University of Montreal (BMus and MMus). As a part of his ongoing development, Maxime Goulet participated in the Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop, directed par Gary Kulesha, in addition to master classes at the Festival international du film d'Aubagne in France, at the Orchestration for Film Workshop in New York with Scott Smalely, and at the 2009 ASCAP Flim Scoring Workshop in Los Angeles where he recorded his music with the Hollywood Studio Symphony.
