Walter Boudreau

{{Short description|Canadian musician}}

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| caption =Walter Boudreau at the award ceremony for the National Order of Quebec in June 2013.

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| birth_date = 1947

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| occupation = Quebecois composer, saxophonist and conductor.

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Walter Boudreau, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|CQ}} (born 1947 in Sorel) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist and conductor. In 1969, he founded the group L'Infonie with Raoul Duguay, which dissolved in 1973. Since 1988, he has been the artistic director of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in Montreal. He was a principal collaborator in the Symphonie du Millénaire which took place in Montréal in 2000. In May 2015 Boudreau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.{{cite web|title=Walter Boudreau biography|url=http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2015/boudreau,-walter.aspx?lang=en-CA|website=Governor General's Performing Arts Awards|publisher=Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation|access-date=17 August 2015}}