Admitted to the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 1983, he continued his college and university studies there, in the clarinet class of Raphaël Masella and received, among other things, a prize in clarinet and chamber music.
Chosen three times as clarinetist for the Orchester Réseau des Conservatoires de Musique du Québec, he perfected the ensemble music there, under the direction of conductors as prestigious as Franz Paul Decker and Raffi Armenian and he performed on the biggest stages. national and American.
It was in 1988, upon entering Notre-Dame College as a clarinet teacher, that Mr. Levasseur was called upon to conduct a wind orchestra with which he had his first successes in provincial competitions.
In 1993, he joined the team at the Joseph-François Perrault school where he founded the Harmonie Option J-F-P. From the fall of 2009 he took the helm of the Orchester à vent JFP and since the fall of 2011 he has been conducting the Orchester symphonique JFP while assuming the position of musical director of the music department.
In 1998, he founded the Symphonie des Vents de Montréal, a senior wind orchestra, and continues to provide musical direction. In the fall of 1999 and 2009, he was invited to lead the Élite Harmony of the Fédération des Harmonies du Québec, as associate conductor.
Since the summer of 2003, he has combined the functions of coordinator and musical director of the wind orchestra workshop at Camp Musical des Laurentides.