Anne Lauber (born 28 July 1943 in

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) is a Canadian

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, conductor, and

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. A member of the

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and an associate of the

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, she has been commissioned to write works by the

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, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Music Competitions, the Canada Council, and the

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featured her in the school's Women in Music Festival. Her son Tristan Lauber is a successful concert pianist.

Education and work as a teacher

Born in Zürich, Switzerland, Lauber studied the

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and

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privately before entering the

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in 1964 on a scholarship from the Association des musiciens suisses. She studied there through 1967 where she was a pupil of Andras Kovach and Zoltán Kodály. At the same time she studied

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privately with

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and Darius Milhaud. In 1967 Lauber came to Canada to pursue studies in music composition privately with André Prévost. She eventually enter the graduate music composition program at the

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(UM) where she continued studies with Prévost and

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. From the UM she earned a Master of Music in 1982 and a Doctor of Music in 1986, both in composition. In 1980 she studied conducting privately with Jacques Clément. Lauber is a former faculty member of the

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and the Université de Montréal. She served as the vice-president of the Quebec region of the Canadian Music Centre in 1987, and then was president from 1988 until 1992.

References

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