Myke Roy

Myke Roy (born 2 July 1950) is a Canadian composer and recording engineer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of electroacoustic music, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre. In 1976 he was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award/Fellowship by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada for his works Sveln (piano and synthesizer), Dra-men Dzunkt (8 performers or more) and Tsé Tnant/Te Deum (17 amplified instruments and tape). In 1987 he won the Robert Fleming Prize. Education Born in Trois-Rivières, Roy began his musical education at the École supérieure de musique de Nicolet where he studied from 1970 to 1972. He pursued further studies at the Université de Montréal where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1975, a Master of Music in 1980, and a Doctor of Music in 1989. One of his principal teachers at the UM was Serge Garant. Career Roy began his career as a recording engineer in 1972. In 1974-1975 he worked with Alcides Lanza and Mario Bertoncini at McGill University’s Electronic Music Studio. He was also employed at the Uni