Daniel Constantineau
Conductor

Daniel Constantineau began learning music at the age of 12 and has been composing since the age of 16. His first works were created at the Camp musical de Lanaudière and were his gateway to the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, which he attended from 1975 to 1985. There he completed master's degrees in music theory (Magdeleine Martin, Clermont Pépin, Gaston Arel, Gilles Tremblay) and conducting (Raffi Arménian), to which is added the learning of clarinet, piano, singing (Jeanine Lachance) and acousmatic composition (Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux).
From 1985 to 1987, Daniel Constantineau hones his skills in orchestral conducting at the OSM and the SMCQ, with Charles Dutoit and Serge Garant. Fellowship from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Quebec, he participated at the same time in workhops at Tanglewood (Gustav Meier), Domaine Forget (Pierre Dervaux) and the Artsperience Conducting Symposium (Nurhan Arman), in Ontario. Alongside his studies in conducting, he approaches the composition of incidental music - television, radio, theater, cinema - from which emerges for more than 30 years a catalog of works, arrangements and orchestrations which stands out for its diversity and originality.
In September 1996, he founded the Orchestre philharmonique du Grand Montréal, a high-calibre amateur symphony group that met with immediate success until its dissolution in June 2001. He then took over the reins of the music profile of the Program Arts and Letters at Collège de Valleyfield where, from 2000 to 2013, he taught history, music theory, choral singing and computer-assisted music.
In 2003, the hearing of a Beethoven symphony by John Eliott Gardiner's Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra prompted him to join the Tafelmusik ensemble in Toronto in order to receive, in 2004 and 2006, the enlightened opinions of Jeanne Lamon, Ivars Taurins and Bruno Weil in baroque and classical orchestra and choir direction. He perfected this training by attending, in the summer of 2011, the rehearsals and concerts of the Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, an ensemble specializing in the interpretation of classical and romantic symphonic repertoire on period instruments. There he met Philippe Herreweghe and Alexander Lonquich, renowned musicians in the field.
These various experiences prompted him to found Galileo (https://en.orchestregalileo.com - formerly Orchestre symphonique de la Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent), an ensemble that plays classical, romantic and post-romantic repertoires on period instruments whenever it is possible and whose start year, in 2010-2011, was crowned with success. Since then, Galileo has produced about two to four concerts a year. In this context, the release of a first album on the ATMA label — André Gagnon Baroque —, in October 2015, followed by nominations for the Galas de l'ADISQ and Prix Opus, respectively in November 2016, February 2017 and February 2021, as well than two nominations and obtaining an Opus Reward in January 2020, are major achievements.
In addition to his activities as a musician, Daniel Constantineau completed, in 2008, a certificate in journalism at UdeM, in the wake of which he fulfilled the function of supernumerary journalist at the newspaper Le Devoir, as well as that of classical music columnist on the brodcasted show Le 4 @ 6, on CIBL Radio-Montréal, from 2007 to 2009.
The sting of studies and the need to take good care of his business led him to enroll at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Montreal, where he was awarded a Master's degree in management of cultural enterprises with honors, in September 2014.