Pierick Houdy

Pierick Houdy (1929-2021) was a French-Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher, born in Rennes. Trained at the Paris Conservatoire, he moved to Quebec City in 1971 and taught there for two decades. He is best known for his choral music, above all the Messe québécoise for voices, violin, double bass and spoons, and for his Sonata for harp. Pierick Houdy studied in Paris with teachers including Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger, and won a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1953 and a first prize in composition in 1954.