Biography

Canadian composer and organist, Laurence Jobidon (b. 1992) has written for a variety of ensembles, notably chamber, solo, vocal and orchestral music. Hailed for her inventiveness (Jeu), powerful lyricism (Avant-Scène Opéra) and for the richness of her language (Folia Organologica, Poland), her works have been performed in North America and Europe in venues such as Opéra de Montréal, the Canadian Opera Company noon-concert series, the Canadian International Organ Competition festival (CIOC), the International Review of Composers (Serbia) and the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ). Recognized through many national and international competitions (SOCAN, Ottawa Guitar Society, Graham Sommer, Prix 3 Femmes - Mécénat Musica, New Generation Orchestra...), her works have been published at Productions d'Oz (Ancrages) and New Music Shelf editions (USA - Al claro de luna) and have also been the focus of musicological and stylistical analysis in Mixtures (Québec), L'Orgue Francophone (France) and Folia Organologica (Poland).

She collaborates regularly with Canadian musicians, creators and ensembles, with recent performances and/or commissions by Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal (Vanessa Croome soprano & Florence Bourget mezzo), Les Violons du Roy (dir. Thomas Leduc-Moreau, Nicolas Ellis), Orchestre de l’Agora (dir. Nicolas Ellis), New Generation Orchestra (dir. Alain Aubut), Paramirabo ensemble, Choros woodwind quintet (Geneviève Deraspe, flute, Lindsay Roberts, oboe, David Perreault, clarinet, Katerine Rousseau, bassoon and Laurence Latreille-Gagné, horn), the Graham Sommer Trio (Amy Hillis, violin; Chloé Dominguez, cello and Meagan Milatz, piano), Ensemble 3 Femmes (Suzanne Rigden, soprano, Kristin Hoff, mezzo-soprano and Jennifer Szeto, piano), the Canadian Art Song Project, EarthWorld Collaborative (Adrian Foster & Joel Peters), Adrianne Munden Dixon (violin, USA), Amy Hillis (violin), Louis Brouillette (organ), Raphaël Ashby (organ), Maja Smilianic Radic (organ, Serbia), Myriam Genest-Denis (flute), Jacqueline Woodley (soprano), Elisabeth Boudreault (soprano), Ellen Wieser (soprano), Charlotte Gagnon (mezzo), Lindsay Connolly (mezzo), Vivien Shotwell (mezzo Can/USA), Mishael Eusebio (tenor), Marcel d'Entremont (tenor), Bruno Roy (baritone), Marc-Étienne Leclerc (classical guitar) and Minji Kwon (piano, USA). Other collaborators include Solène Paré (director), Aria Umezawa (director), Tim Albery (director), Alexis Cousineau (performance artist), Bettina Szabo (dance and choreography), Pascale St-Onge (librettist), and Gabriel Jobidon (poet).

Laurence has benefited from the guidance of renowned Canadian composer Andrew P. MacDonald in her compositional journey. Other main teachers have included Dany Bélisle (organ), Pamela Gill Eby (organ), Yannick Plamondon (composition) and Luna Pearl Woolf (composition, through the 2021 inaugural Chung-Wai Chow & John Wright mentorship programme).

Featured organist at the Canadian International Organ Competition in March 2021, she was a finalist at the Claude-Lavoie competition in 2014 and multiple-time National winner at the Canadian Music Competition and she is regularly invited to perform across Quebec. 

 Laurence is an associate composer at the Canadian League of Composers and at the Canadian Music Centre, and has joined the board of both organizations in 2022.

Thanking the Canada Council for the Arts for their support