David Bourque
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David Bourque is a Canadian musician
, who has played clarinet
and bass clarinet
in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
since 1983, has played on numerous film soundtrack
s and teaches in higher education
.
Bourque is a native of Toronto
and is a graduate of the University of Toronto
’ Faculty of Music. Prior to his appointment to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra clarinet section, Bourque played in the orchestras of the Stratford Festival (1978-1983), the Canadian Opera Company
(1977-1983) and the National Ballet of Canada
(1977-1983). He has guested with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. He plays regularly in international chamber music festivals: Festival of the Sound
(1987 onward) and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (from 2002). Bourque is considered one of the finest bass clarinettists in North America
and is Canada's leading basset horn player.
, seven seasons on Road to Avonlea
, "Emily of New Moon
" and numerous episodes of Street Legal
. He is also heard in the Academy Award-winning Norman Jewison
film Moonstruck
, the Dan Aykroyd
- Jack Lemmon
film Getting Away with Murder
, and the miniseries soundtracks Texas and Larry McMurtry
's The Streets of Laredo. Bourque's playing can also be heard in the film score recording of the music for the 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau and many made for TV movies including the CBC docudrama of the Avro Arrow story.
of K. Anh. C. These editions will be identified as first editions in new the Köchel
catalogue of the works of Mozart. The complete Harmoniemusik of K. Anh. C has been recorded by the Festival Winds
for CBC Records
.
He is the author of a DVD tutorial Working The Single Reed and The Bass Clarinettist's Workbook, an annotated guide to orchestral excerpts, and he is published in a number of journals including The Clarinet and the Canadian Music Educator's Journal.
recordings include Mozart's Magnificent Voyage - Classical Kids. His recording credits include numerous recordings with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, compact discs and radio broadcasts for CBC
, the first recording of the Barenreiter edition of Mozart's Serenade in B flat (K. 361, "Gran Partita"), the Canadian Saxophone Quintet's recording Thanks for the Memories, Gary Kulesha
's Third Chamber Concerto for bass clarinet
and winds (Harmonie
) and Mysterium Conjunctionis with clarinettist James Campbell
. The latter are two of the five works that have been composed for Bourque by Gary Kulesha. Bourque, Campbell and Kulesha are mentioned in connection with the Mysterium in The Cambridge Guide To The Clarinet.
Faculty of Music and the University of Western Ontario
. In 2004-2005 he was visiting professor at Mount Allison University
and in the spring of 2008 was an associate professor at the University of Prince Edward Island
.
Bourque is a regular guest instructor at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University where he has taught studio clarinet, given lectures, coached chamber music and given master classes.
Bourque acted as an adjudicator for clarinet and bass clarinet in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra II
He currently teaches clarinet, bass clarinet and coaches the wind players of the orchestra at the University of Toronto. Bourque is a member of the teaching faculty of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, who has played clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
and bass clarinet
Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra based in Toronto, Ontario.-History:The TSO was founded in 1922 as the New Symphony Orchestra, and gave its first concert at Massey Hall in April 1923. The orchestra changed its name to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1927. The TSO...
since 1983, has played on numerous film soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
s and teaches in higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
.
Bourque is a native of Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and is a graduate of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
’ Faculty of Music. Prior to his appointment to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra clarinet section, Bourque played in the orchestras of the Stratford Festival (1978-1983), the Canadian Opera Company
Canadian Opera Company
The Canadian Opera Company is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and the third largest producer of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.-History:For 40 years until...
(1977-1983) and the National Ballet of Canada
National Ballet of Canada
The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The National is regarded as one of the premier classical...
(1977-1983). He has guested with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. He plays regularly in international chamber music festivals: Festival of the Sound
Festival of the Sound
Festival of the Sound is an annual classical music festival that occurs from July to August in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.Established in 1980 by Anton Kuerti, the festival's original artistic director, the annual festival was held in the auditorium of Parry Sound High School until the opening of...
(1987 onward) and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (from 2002). Bourque is considered one of the finest bass clarinettists in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and is Canada's leading basset horn player.
Film and television sound recording
Bourque's work in film and television sound recording includes many episodes of the re-makes of the television series Alfred Hitchcock PresentsAlfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
, seven seasons on Road to Avonlea
Road to Avonlea
Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...
, "Emily of New Moon
Emily of New Moon
Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about the development of a writer. It was first published in 1923.-Plot summary:...
" and numerous episodes of Street Legal
Street Legal (TV series)
Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...
. He is also heard in the Academy Award-winning Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night , The Thomas Crown Affair , Fiddler on the Roof , Jesus Christ Superstar , Moonstruck , The Hurricane and The...
film Moonstruck
Moonstruck
Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It stars Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, and Olympia Dukakis....
, the Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...
- Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
film Getting Away with Murder
Getting Away with Murder (1996 film)
Getting Away with Murder is a 1996 comedy film written and directed by Harvey Miller. The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin and Bonnie Hunt.This was the final project for veteran writer and director Harvey Miller....
, and the miniseries soundtracks Texas and Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas...
's The Streets of Laredo. Bourque's playing can also be heard in the film score recording of the music for the 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau and many made for TV movies including the CBC docudrama of the Avro Arrow story.
Publications
Bourque is the editor of Northdale Music International's first editions of the HarmoniemusikHarmoniemusik
Harmoniemusik is a musical term denoting a form of 18th century chamber music similar to Tafelmusik, but almost exclusively for wind instruments. From 1780 until 1840 harmoniemusik flourished in the courts of Europe...
of K. Anh. C. These editions will be identified as first editions in new the Köchel
Köchel
Köchel, Koechel is surname of:* Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Ritter von Köchel , composer, musicologist, botanist, writer* Köchel catalogue...
catalogue of the works of Mozart. The complete Harmoniemusik of K. Anh. C has been recorded by the Festival Winds
Festival Winds
The Festival Winds is a Canadian Harmonie ensemble. The group appears regularly at the Festival of the Sound, a summer music festival based in the resort town of Parry Sound, Ontario. The ensemble hs been a part of the festival since 1988....
for CBC Records
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
.
He is the author of a DVD tutorial Working The Single Reed and The Bass Clarinettist's Workbook, an annotated guide to orchestral excerpts, and he is published in a number of journals including The Clarinet and the Canadian Music Educator's Journal.
Orchestral and chamber music recording
Bourque is a versatile and extensively recorded instrumental artist. Chamber musicChamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
recordings include Mozart's Magnificent Voyage - Classical Kids. His recording credits include numerous recordings with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, compact discs and radio broadcasts for CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
, the first recording of the Barenreiter edition of Mozart's Serenade in B flat (K. 361, "Gran Partita"), the Canadian Saxophone Quintet's recording Thanks for the Memories, Gary Kulesha
Gary Kulesha
Gary Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company . He was awarded the National Arts Centre...
's Third Chamber Concerto for bass clarinet
Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
and winds (Harmonie
Harmonie
Harmonie is a German word that, in the context of the history of music, designates a band of wind instruments employed by an aristocratic patron, particularly during the Classical era of the 18th century...
) and Mysterium Conjunctionis with clarinettist James Campbell
James Campbell (clarinetist)
James Campbell is a Canadian/American clarinetist. James Campbell has followed his muse to five television specials, more than 40 recordings, over 30 works commissioned, a Juno Award , a Roy Thomson Hall Award, Canada's Artist of the Year and the Order of Canada...
. The latter are two of the five works that have been composed for Bourque by Gary Kulesha. Bourque, Campbell and Kulesha are mentioned in connection with the Mysterium in The Cambridge Guide To The Clarinet.
Teaching
He has taught in higher education since 1979 and has held positions at the University of TorontoUniversity of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
Faculty of Music and the University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
. In 2004-2005 he was visiting professor at Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university situated in Sackville, New Brunswick. It is located about a half hour from the regional city of Moncton and 20 minutes from the Greater Moncton International Airport...
and in the spring of 2008 was an associate professor at the University of Prince Edward Island
University of Prince Edward Island
The University of Prince Edward Island is a public liberal arts university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province. Founded in 1969, it traces its roots back to its two earlier predecessor organizations, St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales...
.
Bourque is a regular guest instructor at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University where he has taught studio clarinet, given lectures, coached chamber music and given master classes.
Bourque acted as an adjudicator for clarinet and bass clarinet in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra II
He currently teaches clarinet, bass clarinet and coaches the wind players of the orchestra at the University of Toronto. Bourque is a member of the teaching faculty of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.