(1946)
Yves Daoust has studied music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montreal with Gilles Tremblay (composition and analysis) and Irving Heller (piano), supplemented by an technical sound design apprenticeship at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) under the leadership of Maurice Blackburn, then a two-year internship at the International Institute of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges (IMEB, France), led by, among others, the composer Alain Savouret.

Upon his return to Quebec, he first worked as a sound designer at the National Film Board of Canada (1976-1979), then in 1980 he was appointed professor at the Conservatory of Music and Drama in Quebec where he developed an educational program in electroacoustic composition.

Very active on the professional scene, local and international, and one of the pioneers of electronic music in Quebec, he was instrumental in the founding and development of various organizations related to the promotion and dissemination of this music, which ACREQ (Association for electroacoustic creation and research in Quebec), an organization he led for nearly ten years.

Its production is multidisciplinary: film music, stage, performances for young audiences, concert works (electroacoustic music studio, instrumental and mixed music, live electroacoustic music), radio designs.
He was awarded the Golden Euphony Prize(Festival de Bourges 1993) for his work Quatuor, composed in 1979. Opus Award for "Planète Baobab", best show for young audiences in 2000, conducted jointly with Denis Gougeon and Arsenal à Musique.

Recognizing the importance of developing creative sensitivity from a very young age, with colleagues, he designed and built an instrument to create sound, the Musicolateur, which is the joy of children throughout the workshops that are given in elementary and secondary schools in Quebec.

Sources:
http://www.revuecircuit.ca/auteurs/daoust_yv/

Catalog of works and excerpts (MP3):
http://www.electrocd.com/fr/bio/daoust_yv/oeuvres/par_titre/ Musicolateur

The "Musicolateur" machine
http://www.smcq.qc.ca/jeunesse/fr/projets/21976/

Education:
http://www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca/cv/cv.asp?ordre=&idProf=184