Serge Garant, OC

Order of Canada

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 (September 22, 1929 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian

Canada

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, conductor

Conducting

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, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966 he cofounded with Jean Papineau-Couture

Jean Papineau-Couture

Jean Papineau-Couture, was a Canadian composer and academic.Born in Montreal, Papineau-Couture is the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. As a child he studied piano with his mother...

, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier

Wilfrid Pelletier

Joseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier , CC was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, serving as the orchestra's first artistic director and conductor from 1935-1941...

 and Hugh Davidson

Hugh Davidson (composer)

Hugh Hanson Davidson is a Canadian composer, music critic, radio producer, writer, and arts administrator. His compositional output includes works for piano, ballets, chamber music, vocal art songs, choral works, and incidental music for the theatre.Davidson is a graduate of The Royal Conservatory...

 the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

.The Prix Serge-Garant was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan. Among his notable pupils were Ginette Bellavance, Walter Boudreau

Walter Boudreau

Walter Boudreau is a Québécois 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...

, Marcelle Deschênes

Marcelle Deschênes

Marcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer.-Life:Marcelle Price was born near Rimouski, Quebec. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Montreal, studying from 1963-67 with Jean Papineau-Couture and Serge...

, Denis Gougeon

Denis Gougeon

Denis Gougeon is a Canadian composer and music educator. His more than 80 compositions encompass a wide variety of genres, including orchestral works, chamber music, opera, ballet, and pieces for solo instruments and voice...

, Richard Grégoire, Anne Lauber

Anne Lauber

Anne Lauber is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator of Swiss birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she has been commissioned to write works by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian...

, Michel Longtin

Michel Longtin

Michel Longtin is a Canadian composer and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 1986 for Pohjatuuli....

, Myke Roy

Myke Roy

Myke Roy is a Canadian composer and recording engineer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of electroacoustic music, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre...

, and François Tousignant.

Distinctions

• 1971 - Canada Council of Music Medal
• 1979 - Prix Calixa-Lavallée from the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montréal
• 1979 - Officer of the Order of Canada
  Order of Canada
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• 1980 - Prix Jules-Léger for new music
• 1984 - The Canada Council for the Arts music prize
• 1986 - Member of the Royal Society of Canada
  Royal Society of Canada
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Selected works

• Concerts sur terre
• Caprices
• Nucléogame
• Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes
• Musique pour la mort d'un poète
• Ouranos

External links

• Serge Garant at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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• Serge Garant at the Canadian Music Centre
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See also

• Music of Canada
  Music of Canada
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• List of Canadian composers