Biography
I was born 1976 in Québec and lived there for the first 25 years except for two years in Germany (1986-87 and 1993-94). After having obtained a DEC in natural sciences (Petit Séminaire de Québec), I started studying chemistry at the Université Laval while learning music at the Cégep Ste-Foy. In 1999, still at the Université Laval, I obtained a bachelor of music (Honours in Piano Performance) followed two years later by a master of music (Option Musicology). From 2001-2005, I studied in a doctoral program at the Universität Osnabrück, and I obtained a PhD in Musicology (specialization in Music Technology) in 2005. Since then, I split up my time between my job as coordinator of epOs (a publishing house associated to the Universität Osnabrück), piano teaching, the redaction of a book about German culture, translation, research, programming, and various other projects.
I speak and write fluently in french, german and english, and I also master some basics of spanish, russian, danish and serbo-croatian.
My skills in informatics are very solid:
- office software (Latex, MS- and Open Office, Photoshop, Acrobat)
- specialized music software (Finale, Cakewalk, etc.), MIDI
- programming in Java, C/C++, C#, .NET environment, SQL and HTML
- networking
- Windows and Linux
Finally, in my spare time, I play the piano for fun and involve myself in badminton as a player, trainer and referee.
Working experience
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Informatics and administration
- Project manager of the epOs publishing house (Universität Osnabrück, since 2004).
- Technical advisor at VirtUOS for a historical postcards research project (2004, 2005).
- Research assistant at the Musitech project (Universität Osnabrück, 2003).
Translation
- Publicity flyer (german-french) for More2 (2006).
- CD booklet (french-german) of Geneviève Soly: Christoph Graupner, Partitas pour clavecin vol. 5 (AN 2 9118, 2006).
- Asheron's Call 2, internet-based role playing game (english-french) for Jolt Online Gaming (2004-2005).
- Scientific articles (german-english) for the book Mathematische Musik — musikalische Mathematik, edited by Bernd Enders (2004).
- Software localization (french-german) for Atlas Telecom Mobile (2003).
- Web pages (french-german) for Io Media Solutions (1998).
Others
- Accompanist, chamber musician and solist in Osnabrück (since 2001)
Prizes and grants
- FCAR Research grant (27 333 CA$) (1999–2001).
