Alexandre David is a Quebecois composer, performer, arranger, educator, and producer. His work spans a broad range of projects, collaborating with artists from various cultural backgrounds and artistic disciplines. He is equally active in concert music and electroacoustic music, engaging with the realms of Indonesian gamelan, contemporary classical music, film music, and heavy metal.

His catalog includes over fifty works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, guitar ensemble, soloists, gamelan, and unique ensemble configurations. Known for its richness, imagery, and virtuosity, his music has been performed in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Finland, South Korea, Sweden, Israel, and Croatia. He has collaborated with the Orchestre Métropolitain (direction: Jean-François Rivest), Orchestre de l’Agora (direction: Nicolas Ellis), the Quatuor Bozzini, Orchestre de la Francophonie (direction: Jean-Philippe Tremblay), Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra (direction: Deanna Tham), Bakarlari Collective, Avanti! Ensemble (direction: József Hárs), Meitar Ensemble, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (direction: Fabián Panisello), Quasar ensemble, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Plaisirs du clavecin, the Nelligan Quartet, Land’s End Ensemble, Paramirabo Ensemble, Ensemble Mise-en (direction: Moon Young Ha), Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, ISO Project, Instruments of Happiness, Arkea Ensemble (direction: Dina Gilbert), Choros Ensemble, Giri Kedaton Ensemble (direction: Dewa Made Suparta, Pierre Paré Blais), the Montréal Saxophone Ensemble, Ensemble Kô (direction: Tiphaine Legrand), and soloists Philippe Prud’homme, Claudine Ledoux, Julie Trudeau, Émilie Fortin, Christopher Goddard, and Jean-Guy Boisvert.

In 2015, his piece La grande Rapa won first prize at the Land’s End Ensemble Composers Competition. In 2016, Le silence qui suit received both the Choros Ensemble Composition Competition prize and second place in the Ensemble Prisme Composition Competition. In 2017, he was a finalist in the Accès/Arkea Competition, where his work qui fuit… premiered. The collective work De Natura Sonorum, to which he contributed alongside four other composers, was a finalist for both the 2018 Opus Prizes and the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine. That same year, he won the Montréal Saxophone Ensemble Composition Competition with Seokgamoni Bul, presented at the 18th World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2020, he was again a finalist for the Prix collégien de musique contemporaine with his piece Bahnhofstrasse. His work Ne reviendra, reviendra, jamais earned him the second prize in the Matan Givol International Composers Competition in 2020, and in 2024, his String Quartet was awarded a Special Prize at the Ise-Shima International Composition Competition. He is a recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.

Alexandre David has attended several training programs, including Sävellyspaja (Porvoo, Finland), Nief-Norf Summer Festival (Knoxville, TN, USA), Soundstreams Emerging Composers Workshop (Toronto, ON, Canada), Waterloo Regional Contemporary Music Sessions (Waterloo, ON, Canada), Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME, USA), Orford Musique (Orford, QC, Canada), Incubating 001 (Seoul, South Korea), as well as artist residencies at Playa (Summer Lake, OR, USA), Brush Creek Arts Foundation (Saratoga, WY, USA), and Hellerau — Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden (Dresden, Germany).

Since 2015, Alexandre David has held various teaching positions at the Université de Montréal, including courses on the Gamelan Workshop, music literature, and music programming. He is also a founding member of the progressive rock and heavy metal band Chronochromie, where he performs as guitarist and composer. He holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Université de Montréal, where he studied with François-Hugues Leclair and Denis Gougeon. Throughout his studies, he has benefited from mentorship by composers such as Deqing Wen, Anton Svetlichny, Stefano Gervasoni, Anton Safronov, James Rolfe, David Lang, Edith Canat de Chizy, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Christopher Adler, Alexandre Lunsqui, Jukka Tiensuu, Tomi Räisänen, Ana Sokolović, Jean Lesage, and Nils Vigeland.

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