Antonin Bourgault
Antonin Bourgault is a Montreal-based saxophonist, improviser and composer, active in contemporary and experimental music scenes.
He has performed solo and ensemble works by current composers such as Corie-Rose Soumah, Yulin Yan, Geneviève Ackerman, Jonathan Goulet, Daphné Hejebri, Victor Burton-Dallaire, Jérémie Martineau and Hans Martin. As a chamber musician, he has played with Ensemble Saxologie and Ensemble 333 ToutArtBel.
As a composer/improviser, his work revolves around bringing together the sound worlds of contemporary music, experimental instrumental music, electroacoustics and contemporary jazz. On the Montreal experimental scene, he has played in various formations, notably in the Filion/Bourgault duo with Audréanne Filion, as well as with Preston Beebe, Karl-André Rozankovic, Pablo Jimenez, Salomé Perli, Dominic Jasmin, Victor Burton and Kulusé Souriant.
He holds a master's degree in saxophone performance from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in André Leroux's class. In the field of composition, he holds a certificate in digital music from the Université de Montréal and is currently completing a bachelor's degree in composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the direction of Maxime McKinley.
