Michel Longtin is a Canadian composer

Composer

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 and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre

Canadian Music Centre

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 and a member of the Canadian League of Composers

Canadian League of Composers

The Canadian League of Composers is an organization formed in 1951 of Canadian composers primarily interested in raising awareness and acceptance of Canadian music. The activities of the League are overseen and directed by an executive and a National Council...

, he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music

Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music

The Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music is a Canadian contemporary classical music award given to composers in recognition of quality new works of chamber music. Granted annually since 1978 , the prize is won through a competition administered by the Canadian Music Centre...

 in 1986 for Pohjatuuli.

Born in Montreal

Montreal

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, Longtin began his professional studies in the theatre arts, earning a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the Collège des Eudistes in 1967. During the summers of 1963-1964 he also studied theatre at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He then pursued studies in computer science, stage directing, and music at the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 (UM) from 1968–1973, ultimately earning a Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Music is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree; the majority of work consists of prescribed music courses and study in applied music, usually requiring a...

 in composition. His mentor at the school was composer André Prévost. In the summer of 1971 he studied for a short time with Samuel Dolin

Samuel Dolin

Samuel Joseph Dolin was a Canadian composer, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers , he served as the CLC's vice president in 1967-1968 and president from 1969-1973...

 at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

From 1971-1975 Longtin worked at the electronic music

Electronic music

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 studio of McGill University

McGill University

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 with Paul Pedersen

Paul Pedersen (composer)

Paul Richard Pedersen is a Canadian composer, arts administrator, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he is particularly known for his works of electronic music; a number of which utilize various forms of multi-media...

, Bengt Hambraeus

Bengt Hambraeus

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, and Alcides Lanza

Alcides Lanza

Alcides Emigdio Lanza is a Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator of Argentinian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1976. As both a composer and performer he is known as an exponent of contemporary classical music and avant-garde music...

. He later taught on the faculty of that school. He continued studies in the graduate composition program at the UM with Prévost and Serge Garant

Serge Garant

Serge Garant, OC was a Canadian composer, conductor, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966 he cofounded with Jean Papineau-Couture, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson the Société de musique...

, earning a Master of Music

Master of Music

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 in 1975 and a Doctor of Music

Doctor of Music

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 in 1982. He also con-currently worked on the music faculty of the UM from 1973-2008.

Source

• Michel Longtin at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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