A Short Answer
Trio for alto saxophone, cello and piano

Composer: Robert Lemay
Performers: Wind, String, and Hammer (Christopher Curry, saxophone, Conrad Sobieraj, cello, and Nicholas Ma, piano)

Recorded in February 2025 in the Multimedia Media Room (MMR, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building) at McGill University in Montreal. Sound engineer: Rebecca Lee.

A Short Answer Trio for alto saxophone, cello and piano Composer: Robert Lemay Performers: Wind, String, and Hammer (Christopher Curry, saxophone, Conrad Sobieraj, cello, and Nicholas Ma, piano) Recorded in February 2025 in the Multimedia Media Room (MMR, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building) at McGill University in Montreal. Sound engineer: Rebecca Lee.

A Short Answer

Robert Lemay has composed many works and received numerous international awards. Among recent honors include the second prize from the International Competition Prize Luxembourg 2007 and the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006. Other international prizes include the first prize from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium. In addition, Lemay received three prizes from the CAPAC (presently SOCAN).

His music draws its inspiration primarily from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, political or social events and includes two series of tributes; one to filmmakers and another to abstract painters. 

Lemay has been performed in Canada, the United States, Asia (Japan, South Korea and Thailand), Europe (Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Poland, Belgium and Scotland), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela), Mexico,  Israel & Australia. Many of his pieces have been broadcast on Société Radio-Canada, CBC, Bavarian State Radio, European Broadcasting Union (Luxembourg), Polish National Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Autria and ABC Classic FM (Australia). Twenty of his pieces appear on 18 different CDs in Canada, Europe and USA.

Lemay holds a doctorate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal a master’s degree from Université Laval. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has worked with David Felder and taken part in seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. In France, he worked with François Rossé in Bordeaux and Georges Apergis at the ATEM in Paris.

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Robert Lemay has composed many works and received numerous international awards. Among recent honors include the second prize from the International Competition Prize Luxembourg 2007 and the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006. Other international prizes include the first prize from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium. In addition, Lemay received three prizes from the CAPAC (presently SOCAN). His music draws its inspiration primarily from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, political or social events and includes two series of tributes; one to filmmakers and another to abstract painters. Lemay has been performed in Canada, the United States, Asia (Japan, South Korea and Thailand), Europe (Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Poland, Belgium and Scotland), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela), Mexico, Israel & Australia. Many of his pieces have been broadcast on Société Radio-Canada, CBC, Bavarian State Radio, European Broadcasting Union (Luxembourg), Polish National Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Autria and ABC Classic FM (Australia). Twenty of his pieces appear on 18 different CDs in Canada, Europe and USA. Lemay holds a doctorate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal a master’s degree from Université Laval. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has worked with David Felder and taken part in seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. In France, he worked with François Rossé in Bordeaux and Georges Apergis at the ATEM in Paris.

Robert Lemay has composed many works and received numerous international awards. Among recent honors include the second prize from the International Competition Prize Luxembourg 2007 and the second prize from the Kazimierz Serocki 10th International Composers’ Competition 2006. Other international prizes include the first prize from the 2004 Harelbeke Muziekstad Wind Ensemble Competition in Belgium. In addition, Lemay received three prizes from the CAPAC (presently SOCAN).

His music draws its inspiration primarily from poetry, literature, cinema, visual arts, political or social events and includes two series of tributes; one to filmmakers and another to abstract painters. 

Lemay has been performed in Canada, the United States, Asia (Japan, South Korea and Thailand), Europe (Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Poland, Belgium and Scotland), South America (Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela), Mexico,  Israel &amp; Australia. Many of his pieces have been broadcast on Société Radio-Canada, CBC, Bavarian State Radio, European Broadcasting Union (Luxembourg), Polish National Radio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) in Autria and ABC Classic FM (Australia). Twenty of his pieces appear on 18 different CDs in Canada, Europe and USA.

Lemay holds a doctorate degree in composition from the Université de Montréal a master’s degree from Université Laval. He also studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has worked with David Felder and taken part in seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, Louis Andriessen, and Donald Erb. In France, he worked with François Rossé in Bordeaux and Georges Apergis at the ATEM in Paris.

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