Canadian composer and musician. Born in 1948, died on September 4 1993 from AIDS. He composed music for several ensembles and musicians such as [[artist:1243983]], [[artist:645741]], [[artist:1590463]] and [[artist:539271]].Michel-Georges Brégent (Canada, 1948-1993) began composing in 1965 with Grande Toccate-Sonate Barbare and the first version of his important biblical fresco Les Testaments. In 1967 he entered the Montréal Conservatory, where he studied with Gilles Tremblay, Jean Laurendeau and Raoul Sosa. Although strongly influenced by serialism, what he retained was not its techniques, but the general principle that “all the emotions can be expressed most precisely with the support of mathematics”. Moreover, he always considered himself as a composer of tonal music, given that his works were constructed according to the natural harmonic series. “Based on this,” Brégent said, “anything is possible when you create multiple levels of tension between the brain and the heart.”

In addition to being a prolific composer, Brégent was also active as a performer, writing and playing rock music mixed with jazz and contemporary elements in the group Brégent with his brother Jacques, in the duo Dionne-Brégent with percussionist Vincent Dionne, and in the multimedia group, L’écran humain.

Atlantide, a many-layered radio work commissioned by Radio Canada, won the network its first Special Distinction at the 1985 Prix Italia competition (an international competition for radio broadcasters). In 1987 Brégent was named composer-in-residence with the Canadian Opera Company, which premiered his chamber opera Réalitillusion, and another work, Trad-Sens Concertio, was commissioned by the Montréal Symphony Orchestra for its 1986-87 season. He was also commissioned by renowned ensembles and musicians such as the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, Duo contemporain (Netherlands), the Arditti Quartet, Pentaèdre, Michael Laucke, Rivka Golani, Christina Petrowska Quilico, l’Orchestre des jeunes du Québec and L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Geste (1970), a work with aleatoric elements, was the first of Brégent’s compositions to be per- formed widely: premiered by his wife, Christina Petrowska Quilico in New York, Paris, the USSR, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto and during a tour of Western Canada and featured on her CD Gems with an Edge (CBC/Welspringe label). Geste was also performed in Boston by the composer. Christina Petrowska Quilico recorded his monumental work “Portraits: Etudes Romantiques” in a 2 CD set for Centrediscs after giving the world premiere of the entire work at a New Music Concerts event in 2004.