Maxime Goulet (1980) is a Canadian composer, who writes concert music for orchestra and scores for video games.

Early life and education 
Maxime Goulet was born and raised in Montreal, Canada to a French speaking family. He studied music composing at Université de Montréal with Alan Belkin. He earned his B. Mus. in 2005 and his Master's degree in 2007. Later, he attended several trainings and master classes, namely at the Festival international du film d'Aubagne in 2007, and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles in 2009.

Career

Concert music 
The concert music of Maxime Goulet has been performed by a wide range of ensembles and musicians in countries around the world, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Houston Symphony , Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

Maxime Goulet's works often explore themes of daily life and playfulness: Symphonic Chocolates evokes various chocolate flavours  , Checkmate! is structured as a chess match between a piano and an orchestra, Symphonic Aerobic Dance is a workout for orchestra, On Halloween Night evokes creatures associated with Halloween, A Bassoon Circus is composed as circus acts and Fishing Story evokes a fishing trip. 

His other works are often inspired by historical events: Ice Storm Symphony commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 1998 historical ice storm in Canada, United Anthems celebrates the 150th anniversary of Canada , Symphonic Factory celebrates the 375th anniversary of the City of Montreal, and Citius, Altius, Fortius! celebrates the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Video game music 
Between 2007 and 2013, Maxime Goulet has been staff composer for Gameloft. During his tenure, he wrote music for video games such as Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War, The Amazing Spiderman, Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, Dungeon Hunter 4, Order & Chaos Online, Wild Blood, Shrek Forever After and Iron Man 2.

Since 2013, Maxime Goulet has been working as a freelance video game composer. He has composed music for games such as Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, Roller Coaster Tycoon World and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.

In 2017, along with Orchestre Métropolitain and conductor Dina Gilbert, he created The Montreal Video Game Symphony, a multimedia concert that features music of games developed in the city of Montreal

List of works 
List of concert music composition by Maxime Goulet.

Orchestral works
2007: A Puppet Parade
2008: Citius, altius, fortius!
2012: Symphonic Aerobic Dance
2012: Symphonic Chocolates
2014: On Halloween Night
2017: United Anthems
2017: Symphonic Factory
2017: Beach Ball Games for Orchestra
2023: Ice Storm Symphony

Concertante
2014: Fishing Story for Clarinet and String Orchestra
2016: Beatles Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
2017: A Bassoon Circus for Bassoon and Orchestra
2018: Checkmate! for Piano and Orchestra

Operas
2012: Bungalopolis (collective work)
2020: The Flight of the Hummingbird

Chamber music
2004: Watercolour for Piano
2005: The Wool-Spinning Devil for Narrator, Clarinet, Cello and Piano
2006: On a Tightrope for String Quartet
2011: What a Day for String Orchestra
2014: Concertized Introductions for String Orchestra
2015: Level Up! for Keyboard and String Orchestra
2020: Micro météo for Tenor and Piano

Discography 

 Chocolats Symphoniques, Prague Filmharmonic, 2014. 
 Au grand orgue Pierre-Béique, Jean-Willy Kunz, ATMA Music, 2017. 
 Les plaisirs coupables, Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, 2017.
 Canada Mosaic - Sesquies, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 2018.
 Maxime Goulet: Symphonie de la tempête de verglas, Orchestre Classique de Montréal, ATMA Music, 2023.

List of game music 
List of video games for which Maxime Goulet has composed music (as main composer or as additional music composer).

References

External links 
 Official website
 Symphonic Chocolates
 Montreal Video Game Symphony
 The Flight of the Hummingbird

1980 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian composers
Video game composers
Academic staff of the Université de Sherbrooke
Musicians from Montreal
Canadian classical composers
Université de Montréal alumni