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Larry Beauregard | |
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 Larry Beauregard atIRCAM, 1984 | |
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| Born | (1956-10-14)October 14, 1956 Brampton, Ontario, Canada |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | September 4, 1985(1985-09-04) (aged 28) Toulouse, France |
| Genres | Contemporary classical |
| Occupation | Flautist |
Lawrence Michael "Larry"Beauregard (October 14, 1956 – September 4, 1985) was a Canadianflautist. He is best known for his work as first flute in theEnsemble InterContemporain, and for his work atIRCAM in the early 1980s, especially his collaboration withBarry Vercoe on the Synthetic Performer project.
Larry Beauregard was born inBrampton, Ontario, Canada, the third of six children of Jean-Pierre Beauregard, a French-Canadian aerospace engineer, and Irish-Canadian Michaela Moloney. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Montreal. He took up flute in his early teens, and was a private student of Abe Kestenberg (who also taught at the McGill Conservatory of Music), and Gail Grimstead at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Hull from which he graduated with a Premier Prix in 1977. In 1977, he moved to Paris to study underAlain Marion at theConservatoire de Paris.
Upon leaving theConservatoire de Paris in 1980, Beauregard joined theEnsemble InterContemporain underPierre Boulez as first flute. He also performed and recorded solo works for flute. His performance ofEdgard Varèse'sDensity 21.5 is included on Sony Classical'sFlute – Greatest Hits CD.
He also performed the live solo part ofSteve Reich's "Vermont Counterpoint", accompanied by amultitrack recording of himself playing the other parts. After Beauregard's death in 1985, friend and fellow flautistPierre-André Valade [fr] recorded the solo part and included the completed work on his CD (ADDA 581075), as did Claire Marchand on her CD20th Century Works for Solo Flute (ATMA Classique ACD22175).
In the early 1980s, Beauregard was deeply involved in computer music research at the recently establishedIRCAM, modifying a flute with optical switches so that it could interface with the4X computer-based audio synthesis and processing system. This eventually culminated in his work withBarry Vercoe on theSynthetic Performer, which was demonstrated at theICMC in 1984.
Beauregard taught at severalmaster classes, includingDomaine Forget in his native Quebec.
In May 1985, he was diagnosed with late-stagecolon cancer, and died on September 4, 1985. In his memory, the Lawrence Beauregard International Flute Competition was established; winners of the competition include Nina Perlove, Kaoru Hinata, and Myung Joo Ahn. Works composed in his memory includePierre Boulez'Mémoriale (1985) for flute and ensemble,Philippe Manoury'sJupiter (1987) for flute and electronics,[1] andTim Brady'sRequiem 21.5 (2009) for solo violin and orchestra.
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