Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (9 August 1938 - 2 February 1985) was a Canadian composer

Composer

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 and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

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 scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid 1980s. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre

Canadian Music Centre

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, she was commissioned to write works by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

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, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and the Quebec Contemporary Music Society

Quebec Contemporary Music Society

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.

Life and career

Born in La Doré, Quebec

La Doré, Quebec

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, Saint-Marcoux studied at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy

École de musique Vincent-d'Indy

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, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM), and the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

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. Her teachers included Gilbert Amy

Gilbert Amy

Gilbert Amy is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade. His first compositions date from 1955...

, Françoise Aubut, François Brassard

François Brassard

François Joseph Brassard was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, organist, composer and music teacher.Brassard studied piano with Rolland-Georges Gingras, organ with Omer Létourneau and harmony with Robert Talbot. As a scholarship student of the Académie de musique du Québec he was a student of Léo-Pol...

, Claude Champagne

Claude Champagne

Claude Champagne was a Canadian composer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied violin with Albert Chamberland, organ with Orpha-F. Deveaux, and piano with Romain-Octave Pelletier I and Alexis Contant at the Conservatoire national de musique. In 1921 he went straight to Paris to study music...

, Jean-Pierre Guézec, Yvonne Hubert, Clermont Pépin

Clermont Pépin

Clermont Pépin, was a Canadian pianist, composer and teacher.He was born Jean Joseph Clermont Pépin in Saint-Georges, Quebec in 1926. Pépin studied with influential Canadian composers Claude Champagne and Arnold Walter , and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1941 to 1944 with...

, Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

, and Gilles Tremblay

Gilles Tremblay

Gilles Tremblay, is a Canadian composer. He studied at the Conservatories of Montreal and Paris , where his teachers including Olivier Messiaen , Yvonne Loriod , and Maurice Martenot . He also attended Stockhausen's summer courses at Darmstadt, where he became interested in electro-acoustic...

. In 1967 she was awarded the Prix d'Europe

Prix d'Europe

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 for composition with Modulaire for orchestra. In 1969 she co-founded the Groupe international de musique électroacoustique de Paris and in 1971 she was a co-founder of the Montréal percussion group Ensemble Polycousmie. From 1971 until her death in Montréal

Montreal

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in 1984 she taught on the faculty of the CMQM.