Walter Boudreau, (born 1947 in Sorel) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist and conductor. In 1969, he founded the group L'Infonie with Raoul Duguay, which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988, he has been the artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in Montreal. He was a principal collaborator in the Symphonie du Millénaire which took place in Montréal in 2000. In May 2015 Boudreau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. Teachers Serge Garant Mauricio Kagel György Ligeti Bruce Mather Karlheinz Stockhausen Gilles Tremblay Iannis Xenakis Films La Nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970, 1971 L'Infonie inachevée, 1972 Fanfares, 1988 Awards 1982 - Prix Jules-Léger 1998 - Prix Opus : compositeur de l'année 2003 - Molson Prize 2004 - Prix Denise-Pelletier 2013 - Knight of the National Order of Quebec 2013 - Member of the Order of Canada 2015 - Governor General's Performing Arts Award Grants from the Canadian Arts Council National Young Composers Competition (Radio-Canada) See also Music of Canada List of Canadian composers References 21st-century classical composers Canadian classical composers Male conductors (music) Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music winners Prix Denise-Pelletier winners 1947 births Living people People from Sorel-Tracy Canadian saxophonists Male saxophonists Knights of the National Order of Quebec Members of the Order of Canada Canadian male classical composers Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners 21st-century saxophonists 21st-century Canadian conductors (music) 21st-century Canadian male musicians