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Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada
About Jacques Larocque
- Jacques Larocque is a Canadian saxophonist, arranger, music educator, and university administrator.
- He has authored and published numerous transcriptions and arrangements for saxophone quartet; some of which have been recorded by ensembles like the Alliage Saxophone Quartet and the American Saxophone Quartet.
- He has appeared numerous times on CBC Radio as a soloist and chamber musician and has been a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières among others.Larocque studied the saxophone at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Arthur Romano and Pierre Bourque.
- In 1967 he was awarded the Prix d'Europe and to this date is the only saxophonist to have received that honour.
- That prize enabled him to pursue further studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in France. After returning to Canada, Larocque became a member of the renowned Pierre Bourque Saxophone Quartet in 1971 with whom he spent the next several years touring internationally and recording.
- From 1971–1990 he served as the director of the Module de musique program at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
- He has since taught on the music faculty at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
- In 1995 he founded the saxophone septet Septune of which he remains Artistic Director.
- He is also the current Music Director of both Saxophone Andran and the trio Zeugma, and is a member of the Saxium Saxophone Quartet.
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