Most new music is lucky to be premièred in a beery basement, so an orchestral debut is a special thing for most composers. Not Denis Gougeon, whose note in Wednesday night’s Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s program explained that he is “one of the few who can support himself exclusively by composing, though he also accepted a position in the composition department at his alma mater.” That was nice of them,
since he seems to be a wind specialist.