Linda Bouchard

Canadian born Linda Bouchard has lived most of her adult life in the US while carrying an active career on both side of the Atlantic. Linda lived in New York City through the 80s where she composed, led contemporary music groups and opera and made orchestral arrangements for Churches and Ballet companies. She has composed over 90 works in a variety of genres, from orchestral and chamber works to dance scores, concerti, and vocal pieces and multimedia theatrical works. In the early 90s she moved back to Montreal and was composer-in-residence with the National Arts Center Orchestra where she composed several works for the orchestra and organized 20th-Century Music events such as the First Orchestral Workshop and the Summer Music Festival: Atonal Departure. Since 1997, Linda has made San Francisco her home where she lives with her husband and her son. In June 2001, Ms Bouchard was invited to participate at IRCAM’s “Stage d’Informatique Musicale” in Paris. This marks the moment when she started to integrate electronics into her works. In the fall 2005, she founded NEXMAP: New Experimental Music Arts and Performance, a non-for-profit arts organization dedicated to the presentation of international artistic events in the Bay Area