Pierre Desmarais

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Pierre Desmarais is an active composer and performing musician based in Montreal, Quebec. The exact Spotify artist 29caEVdpIh3BWQvgFUeZSn aligns with his artist-controlled website and Bandcamp catalog, Apple Music artist 1531777653, MusicBrainz artist a54a9791-c7be-4e87-9c75-4bcec5f1d2f3, and Wikidata item Q117808379. Desmarais studied music at Bishop's University and completed a master's degree in music composition at Université de Montréal. His work includes music for dance, theatre, short films, television, documentary projects, and contemporary concert settings. I Musici de Montréal performed his string-orchestra composition The Scream. Screen credits documented by his official biography include Fais ça court!, Fréquences, Tagliani: The Man The Athlete, Rogue Earth 2, and Sophie Dupuis's short film Félix et Malou. That short received the CEV prize at Prends ça court! and a Jutra nomination, while the short film La lettre carried his music to the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. He has also composed for Kino Montréal and worked as a bassist and backing singer with Cécile Doo-Kingué, Miron Noir, Anique Granger, Psychocaravane, and Atréal. His collision-reviewed principal Spotify catalog in Canada contains five albums from September 15, 2020 through March 10, 2026: Cellules, Possible, Passages, Mandalas, and ZiP. Artist-controlled Bandcamp lists those releases alongside earlier screen and instrumental projects and currently identifies Montreal, Quebec. ZiP and the current Bandcamp catalog confirm continuing activity in 2026. Public professional inquiries route through his official website; MusicList does not reproduce direct contact details or social handles. Spotify media is live provider-attributed content with a monogram fallback.