Charles-Amador Martin
Charles-Amador Martin (7 March 1648 – 19 June 1711) was a priest, singer and composer of sacred music in New France. He was the second priest to be ordained in what is now Canada,Sir James MacPherson Le Moine. Quebec, Past and Present: A His ...
(1648–1711)
Classical
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Joseph Quesnel
Joseph Quesnel (15 November 1746 – 2 or 3 July 1809) was a French Canadian composer, poet, playwright and slave-trader. Among his works were two operas, ''Colas et Colinette'' and ''Lucas et Cécile''; the former is considered to be the first ...
(1746–1809)
Romantic
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Stephen Codman
Stephen Codman (c. 1796 – 6 October 1852) was a Canadian composer of English descent. His known compositions all date from before 1835 and his output mainly consists of works for solo voice or vocal ensembles.
Early life and education
Codm ...
(c. 1796–1852)
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James P. Clarke
James Paul Clarke (August 18, 1854 – October 1, 1916) was a United States Senator and the 18th Governor of Arkansas as well as a white supremacist.
Biography
Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. His father died when Clarke was seven ye ...
Jean-Baptiste Labelle
Jean-Baptiste Labelle (September 1825 – 9 September 1898) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and conducting, conductor. He is best known for composing the music to the song ''Ô Canada! mon pays, mes amours'' (words 1834, music befor ...
(1825–1898)
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Ernest Gagnon
Ernest Gagnon (7 November 1834 – 15 September 1915) was a Canadian folklorist, composer, and organist. He is best known for compiling a large amount of French Canadian folk music which he published as ''Chansons populaires du Canada'' in 186 ...
(1834–1915)
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Adélard Joseph Boucher
Adélard Joseph François-Arthur Boucher (28 June 1835 – 16 November 1912) was a Canadian publisher, importer, choirmaster, organist, conductor, writer on music, composer and numismatist. In 1865 he founded the A.J. Boucher Co. in Montreal ...
(1835–1912)
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Frantz Jehin-Prume
Frantz Jehin-Prume (18 April 1839 – 29 May 1899) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. He began his career as a highly successful concert violinist in Europe. From 1865 on he lived and worked mainly in Mon ...
(1839–1899)
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Calixa Lavallée
Calixa Lavallée (December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War. He is best known for composing the music for "O Canada," which officially became the n ...
(1842–1891)
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Gustave Gagnon
Gustave Adolphe Mathurin Gagnon (6 November 1842 – 19 November 1930) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator.
Family background and education
Born in Louiseville, Gagnon was from a prominent family of musicians in Québe ...
(1842–1930)
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Romain-Octave Pelletier I
Romain-Octave Pelletier I (sometimes spelled Peltier) (9 September 1843 – 4 March 1927) was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, writer on music, and music educator.
Early life and career
Born in Montreal, Pelletier was a member of a prom ...
(1843–1927)
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Joseph-A. Fowler
Joseph-A. Fowler (14 November 1845 – 4 January 1917) was a Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster, pianist, and music educator. His compositional output mainly consists of sacred music, although he did compose some secular songs for voice and ...
(1845–1917)
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Guillaume Couture
Guillaume Couture (January 14, 1618 – April 4, 1701) was a citizen of New France. During his life he was a lay missionary with the Jesuits, a survivor of torture, a member of an Iroquois council, a translator, a diplomat, a militia captain, a ...
(1851–1915)
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J. E. P. Aldous
John Edmund Paul Aldous (8 December 1853 – 23 January 1934) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output includes many short pieces for piano, organ, choir, and voice. He also co ...
(1853–1934)
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Alexis Contant
Joseph Pierre Alexis Contant (12 November 1858 – 28 November 1918) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. Trained as a pianist, he became one of the first Canadians to compose large-scale choral and orchestral works, i ...
(1858–1918)
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Alfred De Sève
Alfred De Sève (May or June 1858 – 25 November 1927) was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Sc ...
(1858–1927)
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W. O. Forsyth
Wesley Octavius Forsyth (January 26, 1859 – May 7, 1937) was a Canadian pianist, composer and music educator based in Toronto, Ontario. Most of his compositions were written for the piano and voice.
Early life and education
Forsyth was born i ...
Humfrey Anger
Joseph Humfrey Anger (3 June 186211 June 1913) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth. His compositional output consists mainly of church music and works for solo piano and organ. Some of his ...
(1862–1913)
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Charles A.E. Harriss
Charles Albert Edward Harriss (16 or 17 December 1862 – 31 July 1929) was an English then Canadian composer, impresario, educator, organist-choirmaster and conducting, conductor.
Early life and education
Harriss was born in London, England, a ...
(1862–1929)
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Achille Fortier
Achille Fortier (23 October 1864 – 19 August 1939) was a Canadians, Canadian composer and music educator. His compositional output includes a modest amount of choir, choral and chamber music, chamber works, several songs and motets, and a small ...
(1864–1939)
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Clarence Lucas Clarence Lucas (October 19, 1866 – July 2, 1947), was a Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor.
Lucas was born at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and was a student of Romain-Octave Pelletier I. He taught at the Toronto Coll ...
(1866–1947)
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Paul Ambrose
Paul Ambrose (11 October 1868 – 1 July 1941) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator who was primarily active in the United States. His compositional output includes more than 200 songs, choral pieces, and works for s ...
(1868–1941)
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Frédéric Pelletier
Frédéric Pelletier (1 May 1870 – 30 May 1944) was a Canadian choir conductor, music educator, composer, music critic, journalist, civil servant, military officer, and physician. He was one of the principal music critics in Montreal ...
(1870–1944)
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W. H. Hewlett
William Henry Hewlett (16 January 1873 – 13 June 1940) was a Canadian organist, conductor, composer, and music educator of English birth.
Early life and education
Born in Batheaston, Hewlett was a treble in the choir at Bath Abbey as a boy. ...
(1873–1940)
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Joseph Allard
Joseph Allard (December 31, 1910 – May 3, 1991) was a professor of saxophone and clarinet at the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, and the Manhattan School of Music. He also held adjunct positions at many other schools. He succeed ...
(1873–1947)
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Romain Pelletier
Romain Pelletier (sometimes spelled Peltier) (22 August 1875 – 24 November 1953) was a Canadian organist, choir conductor, composer, and music educator. His compositional output consists entirely of works for solo organ and motets. He was ...
(1875–1953)
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Donald Heins
Donald Heins (19 February 1878 – 1 January 1949) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, organist, composer, and music educator of English birth. He notably founded the first professional orchestra in Ottawa, the Ottawa Symphony Orchest ...
(1878–1949)
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Henri Miro
Henri Enrique Miro (13 November 1879 – 19 July 1950) was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and his works were performed in all of Montrea ...
(1879–1950)
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Healey Willan
James Healey Willan (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and ...
(1880–1968)
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Robert Nathaniel Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Black Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music professor. Born and raised in Canada until ...
(1882–1943)
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Alfred La Liberté
Alfred La Liberté (10 February 1882 – 7 May 1952) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. He was a disciple and close personal friend of Alexander Scriabin. He was also an admirer of Marcel Dupré and Nikol ...
(1882–1952)
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W.H. Anderson
William Henry Anderson (21 April 1882 – 12 April 1955) was a composer, choir director, tenor, and voice teacher of English birth. He produced a large amount of vocal music, including more than 150 songs and 40 anthems as well as a significant a ...
(1882–1955)
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Robert Graham Manson Robert Graham Manson (11 June 1883 – 14 February 1950) was a British-born musician.
He was born in London, one of four sons of James Alexander Manson (born 1852), a journalist and author. One of his brothers was James Bolivar Manson (1879 - 1 ...
(1883–1950)
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J.-J. Gagnier
Jean-Josaphat Gagnier (2 December 1885 – 16 September 1949) was a Canadian conducting, conductor, composer, clarinetist, bassoonist, pianist, arts administrator, and music educator. His compositional output mainly consists of works for orchestr ...
(1885–1949)
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Albertine Morin-Labrecque
Albertine Morin-Labrecque (sometimes Labrecque-Morin) (8 June 1886 – 22 or 25 September 1957) was a Canadian pianist, soprano, composer, and music educator. Her compositional output includes 4 ballets, 2 comic operas, the Chinese Opera ' ...
(1886 or 1890–1957)
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Albert Chamberland
Albert Chamberland (12 October 1886 – 4 April 1975) was a Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, music producer, and music educator. As a violinist he performed as a chamber musician with a number of ensembles, including the Beethove ...
(1886–1975)
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Frank Marsales
Frank Alfred Marsales (31 August 188614 August 1975) was a Canadian composer best known for his work scoring many classic animated films by Warner Bros. Cartoons in the 1930s. He also worked with Walter Lantz Studios in the mid to late 1930s. ...
(1886–1975)
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Henri Gagnon
Henri Gagnon (6 March 1887 – 17 May 1961) was a Canadian composer, organist, and music educator. He spent 51 years playing the organ at the Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral of Quebec City where, according to music historian François Brassard, h ...
(1887–1961)
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Allard de Ridder
Allard de Ridder (3 May 1887 – 13 May 1966) was a Dutch–Canadian conductor, violist, and composer. He was notably the first conductor of both the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the latter of which he found ...
(1887–1966)
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Rodolphe Mathieu
Joseph Rodolphe Mathieu (10 July 1890 – 29 June 1962) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' states, "Considered too avant-garde for his time because of Debussy's influence on his ...
(1890–1962)
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Lydia Boucher
Lydia Boucher (28 February 1890 – 5 March 1971) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and nun. She was active as a composer from 1923 to 1971, producing several choral works and pieces for solo piano and organ. Most of her works are sacre ...
(1890–1971)
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Claude Champagne
Claude Champagne (27 May 1891 – 21 December 1965) was a French Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, and violinist.
Early life and education
Born as Joseph-Arthur-Adonaï Claude Champagne in Montreal, Quebec, Champagne began piano and theo ...
(1891–1965)
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Alexander Chuhaldin
Alexander Gregorovitch Chuhaldin (russian: Александр Григорьевич Чухалдин) (27 August 1892 – 20 January 1951) was a Russian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator who later emigrated to Canada. He spen ...
(1892–1951)
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René Gagnier
René Gagnier (30 May 1892 – 25 May 1951) was a Canadian conducting, conductor, composer, euphonium player, violinist, and music educator. His compositional output includes several march (music), marches, waltzes, works for solo violin, and ...
(1892–1951)
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Omer Létourneau
Joseph Hercule Omer Létourneau (13 March 1891National Library of Canada. Nouvelles de la Bibliothèque Nationale'. Vol. 15-16. National Library of Canada; 1983. – 14 August 1983) was a Quebec, Québécois pianist, organist, composer and orches ...
Ernest MacMillan
Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan, (August 18, 1893 – May 6, 1973) was a Canadian orchestral conductor, composer, organist, and Canada's only "Musical Knight". He is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-eminent musician, from the ...
(1893–1973)
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Alfred Mignault
Alfred Joseph Édouard Mignault (8 December 1895 – 10 July 1961) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. A largely self-taught composer, his compositional output includes both vocal and instrumental works such as songs, wor ...
(1895–1961)
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Joseph Beaulieu
Joseph Beaulieu (21 May 1895 – 1 October 1965) was a Canadian composer, folklorist, and music educator. He traveled extensively throughout Canada collecting folk songs, which he compiled in several published books. As a composer, his works ref ...
(1895–1965)
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Amice Calverley
Amice Calverley (9 April 1896 – 10 April 1959) was an English-born Canadian Egyptologist who was instrumental to the recording and publication of the decoration in the temple of King Sethos I at Abydos. During and after World War II she engage ...
(1896–1959)
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Eugène Lapierre
Eugène Lapierre (8 June 1899 – 21 October 1970) was a Canadian organist, composer, journalist, writer on music, arts administrator, and music educator. He was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935 and the King George VI Corona ...
(1899–1970)
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Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (russian: Софи Кармен Экхардт-Граматте; in Moscow, Russia – 2 December 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany) was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist.
Biography ...
(1899–1974)
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Leila Fletcher
Leila Fletcher (August 12, 1899 – April 9, 1988) was a Canadian pianist, composer, publisher, music editor and educator.
Early years
She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Her parents provided her piano lessons from a local teacher. After high sch ...
(1899–1988)
Modern/Early postmodern
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Colin McPhee
Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali, and developing American gamelan along ...
(1900–1964)
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Hector Gratton
Joseph Thomas Hector Gratton (13 August 1900 – 16 July 1970) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator. As a composer his music is written in an essentially folkloric and popular style which avoids harmonic sophi ...
(1900–1970)
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Isabelle Delorme
Isabelle Delorme (4 November 1900 – 20 February 1991) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. As a composer, her works are lyrical in nature and follow more traditional ideas of harmony as opposed to the avant-garde music that was ...
(1900–1991)
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Lionel Daunais
Noël Ferdinand Lionel Daunais, (December 31, 1901 – July 18, 1982) was a French Canadian baritone and composer.
Life
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Daunais studied singing with Céline Marier and harmony and composition with Oscar O'Brien ...
(1901–1982)
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Gabriel Cusson
Gabriel Cusson (2 April 1903, Roxton Pond, Quebec - 18 Apr 1972, Montreal) was a Canadian composer and music educator. As a composer, his music was heavily influenced by the style of early 20th-century French composers. Most of his work remains u ...
(1903–1972)
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Morris Davis
Morris Durham "Moe" Davis (born July 31, 1958) is an American retired U.S. Air Force colonel, attorney, educator, politician, and former administrative law judge.
Davis was appointed the third Chief Prosecutor of the Guantanamo military commiss ...
(1904–1968)
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Allan McIver
Joseph Allan McIver (17 January 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Canadian composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor. As a pianist he performed with orchestras in the Quebec region in his early career and was the longtime accompanist and arrang ...
(1904–1969)
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Conrad Bernier
Conrad Bernier (9 May 1904 – 7 November 1988) was a French-Canadian organist, composer, conductor and teacher. For many years he was a professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Early life and education
Born into a fa ...
(1904–1988)
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Charles Houdret
Charles Houdret (6 July 1905 – 1965) was a Canadian conductor, cellist, radio producer, and composer. He began his career in Belgium and was highly active as a conductor throughout Europe during the 1940s. In 1952 he immigrated to Canada where ...
(1905–after 1964)
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Bruce Holder Bruce Edward Holder Sr. (January 8, 1905 – August 27, 1987) was a Canadian composer, conductor, and violinist. He helped to conduct, teach, and found many music groups, including Symphony New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra,
(1905–1987)
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Albertine Caron-Legris
Albertine Caron-Legris (1906–1972) was a Canadian pianist, composer and music educator. Many of her manuscripts and personal papers are held in the collection at the Library and Archives Canada.
Early life
Born Albertine Caron in Louiseville, Q ...
(1906–1972)
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Murray Adaskin
Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band, he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of ...
(1906–2002)
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Boris Berlin
Boris Berlin (27 May 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer of Russian birth. He is primarily remembered for his work within the field of piano pedagogy, having published an extensive amount of mate ...
(1907–2001)
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Lucien Martin
Lucien Martin (30 May 1908 – 29 October 1950) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer. Only one of his compositions was published, the art song ''La Chanson des belles'', which was performed by Jeanne Desjardins in its premiere on t ...
(1908–1950)
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Jean Coulthard
Jean Coulthard, (February 10, 1908 – March 9, 2000) was a Canadian composer and music educator. She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet ...
(1908–2000)
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Jean Deslauriers
Jean Deslauriers (24 June 1909 – 30 May 1978) was a Canadian conducting, conductor, violinist, and composer. As a conductor he had a long and fruitful partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; conducting orchestras for feature fi ...
(1909–1978)
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Walter MacNutt
Walter Louis MacNutt (2 June 1910 – 10 August 1996) was a Canadian organist, choir director, and composer. His compositional output includes numerous choral works, songs, pieces for solo organ, and works for orchestra, many of which have bee ...
Keith Bissell
Keith Warren Bissell (12 February 1912 in Meaford, Ontario – 9 May 1992 in Newmarket, Ontario) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, conducting, conductor, and music educator. He was particularly known for his choral music, which often impleme ...
(1912–1992)
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Graham George
Graham Elias George (11 April 1912 – 9 December 1993) was a Canadian composer, music theorist, organist, choir conductor, and music educator of English birth. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consists larg ...
(1912–1993)
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Johana Harris
Johana Harris (31 December 1912 – 5 June 1995) was a Canadian pianist, composer, and music educator. She had highly successful career as a concert pianist, making numerous recordings and appearing as a soloist with almost every major American sy ...
(1912–1995)
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Barbara Pentland
Barbara Pentland C.M. (2 January 1912 – 5 February 2000) was one of the pre-eminent members of the generation of Canadian composers who came to artistic maturity in the years following World War Two.
Life and career
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba ...
(1912–2000)
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Lucio Agostini
Lucio Agostini (Fano, Italy, 30 December 1913 – Toronto, 15 February 1996) was an Italian-born composer, arranger, and conductor who established his career in Canada.
Life
At age three, Agostini moved with his family to Montreal, Quebec, Cana ...
(1913–1996)
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Violet Archer
Violet Louise Archer (24 April 191321 February 2000) was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa o ...
(1913–2000)
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John Weinzweig
John Jacob Weinzweig, (March 11, 1913 – August 24, 2006) was a Canadian composer of classical music.
Weinzweig was born in Toronto. He went to Harbord Collegiate Institute, and studied music at the university. In 1937, he left for the United ...
(1913–2006)
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Henry Brant
Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.
Biography
Brant was born ...
(1913–2008)
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Hugh Le Caine
Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder.
Le Caine was brought up in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) in northwestern Ontario. At a young age, he began making musical instruments. In yo ...
(1914–1977)
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Émilien Allard
Émilien Allard (12 June 1915 – 18 November 1976) was a Canadian carillonneur and composer. He composed more than 50 works for carillon and made more than 700 transcriptions of carillon music; many of which are still performed in Europe and ...
(1915–1977)
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Ricky Hyslop
Ricky Hyslop (26 April 1915 – 2 June 1998) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger. He was commissioned to write works
by the Buffalo Philharmonic (the symphonic poems ''Toronto 1830'' and ''Mizu Uni''), clarinetist Avr ...
(1915–1998)
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Alexander Brott
Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),
(1915–2005)
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James Gayfer
James McDonald Gayfer (26 March 1916 – 7 April 1997) was a Canadian bandmaster, clarinetist, composer, conductor, organist, military officer, and music educator. His compositional output encompasses several orchestral works, including two symp ...
(1916–1997)
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Jean Papineau-Couture
Jean Papineau-Couture, (November 12, 1916August 11, 2000) 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. He fir ...
(1916–2000)
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Gaston Allaire
Joseph Georges-Émile Gaston Allaire (18 June 1916 – 15 January 2011) was a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist, composer, and music educator of American birth."Gaston Allaire, un musicologue qui pursuit son oeuvre à 72 ans", Montrea ...
Herbert Belyea
Warren Herbert Belyea (22 December 1917 – 4 August 2001) was a Canadian composer, choir conducting, conductor, poet, and music educator. As a composer he was commissioned to write works by the Manitoba Arts Council, the city of Winnipeg, and sev ...
(1917–2001)
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Samuel Dolin
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bi ...
(1917–2002)
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Robert Farnon
Robert Joseph Farnon CM (24 July 191723 April 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music genre), he was commissioned by film and ...
(1917–2005)
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Oskar Morawetz
Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer.
Biography
Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeov ...
(1917–2007)
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Godfrey Ridout
Godfrey Ridout (6 May 1918 in Toronto – 24 November 1984 in Toronto) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and writer.
Life and career
Ridout was a descendant of Thomas Ridout (politician), Thomas Ridout, the first Su ...
(1918–1984)
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Gordon Delamont
Gordon Arthur Delamont (27 October 1918 – 16 January 1981) was a Canadian music educator, author, composer, and trumpeter. He is best remembered for his work as an educator, having helped shape the talents of dozens of notable musicians in Toro ...
(1918–1981)
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Lorne Betts Lorne Matheson Betts (August 2, 1918 – August 5, 1985) was a Canadian composer, conductor, organist, and music critic. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, many of his original scores and wri ...
(1918–1985)
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Louis Applebaum
Louis Applebaum (April 3, 1918April 19, 2000) was a Canadian film score composer, administrator, and conductor.
Early life
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Leo Smith and the University o ...
(1918–2000)
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Gerald Bales
Gerald Albert Bales, (May 12, 1919 – July 4, 2002) was a Canadian organist and composer.G ...
István Anhalt
István Anhalt, (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer.
Anhalt served as a professor of music at McGill University and founded the McGill University Electronic Music Studio. He also served as head of music at ...
(1919–2020)
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Udo Kasemets
Udo Kasemets (November 16, 1919 – January 19, 2014) was a Canadian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works. He was one of the first composers to adopt the methods of John Cage, and was also a conductor, lect ...
(1919–2014)
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Neil Chotem
Neil Chotem (9 September 1920 – 21 February 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator.
Works
Chotem's compositional style is tonal, and often incorporates elements of jazz and popular music. He comp ...
Howard Cable
Howard Reid Cable (December 15, 1920March 30, 2016) was a conductor, arranger, music director, composer, and radio and television producer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Biography
Cable received an Associate diploma (ATCM) from The R ...
Kelsey Jones
Herbert Kelsey Jones (June 17, 1922 – October 10, 2004) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, pianist, harpsichordist, and music teacher.
Early life
Jones was born in South Norwalk, Norwalk, Connecticut, Norwalk, Connecticut; he grew up in Portlan ...
(1922–2004)
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Harry Freedman
Harry Freedman (''Henryk Frydmann''), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as '' T ...
(1922–2005)
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Jocelyne Binet
Jocelyne Binet (27 September 1923 – 13 January 1968) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada.
Biography
Binet was born in East Angus ...
(1923–1968)
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Kenneth G. Mills
Kenneth George Mills (January 25, 1923 – October 8, 2004) was a Canadian metaphysical/philosophical speaker and author. An exponent of the oral tradition, he gave spontaneous lectures and poetry for over 37 years. At the same time, he became not ...
(1923–2004)
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Jack Kane
John Thomas Kane (23 July 1908 – 27 October 1988) was an Australian politician. Born in Burraga, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools in Lithgow, after which he became a coalminer. He was Vice-President of the Transport Work ...
(1924–1961)
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Mort Garson
Morton Sanford Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as '' Mother Earth's Plantasia'' (1976), He also ...
(1924–2008)
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Harry Somers
Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer. Possessing a charismatic attitude and rather dashing good looks, as well as a genuine talent for his art, Somers earned the unofficial title ...
(1925–1999)
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Pierre Brabant
Pierre Brabant (26 August 1925 – 28 August 2014) was a Canadian composer and pianist. He appeared in concerts and recitals throughout Canada and performed numerous times on Canadian television and radio. He wrote music for a number of program ...
(1925–2014)
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Gérald Gagnier
Gérald Gagnier (14 October 1926 – 14 January 1961) was a Canadian bandmaster, composer, and trumpeter. His compositional output includes the symphonic poem ''Polyphème'', a ''Prélude'' for piano, a ''Suite romantique'' for strings, and '' ...
(1926–1961)
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Victor Bouchard
Victor Bouchard OC CQ (April 11, 1926 – March 22, 2011) was a Canadian pianist and composer.
Bouchard received his first musical training from 1941 to 1946 at the ''Collège de Lévis'' with Father Alphonse Tardif. Then he studied at the ''Co ...
(1926–2011)
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Alan Detweiler
Alan Gregory Detweiler (15 June 1926 – 25 February 2012) was a Canadian composer, author, and patron of the arts. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He obtained degrees in philosophy at the ...
(1926–2012)
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Raymond Daveluy
Joseph Eugène Raymond-Marie Daveluy (23 December 1926 – 1 September 2016) was a Canadian composer, organist, music educator, and arts administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consisted mainly ...
(1926–2016)
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François Morel
François Morel (14 March 1926 – 14 January 2018) was a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded t ...
(1926–2018)
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Clermont Pépin
Clermont Pépin (May 15, 1926 – September 2, 2006) was a Canadian pianist, composer and teacher who lived in Quebec.
Early life and education
Jean Joseph Clermont Pépin was born in Saint-Georges, Quebec in 1926. Pépin studied with influe ...
(1926–2006)
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Pierre Mercure
Pierre Mercure (21 February 1927 – 29 January 1966) was a Québécois composer, TV producer, bassoonist, and administrator.
Mercure was born in Montreal. As a student at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, he earned ho ...
Dolores Claman
Dolores Olga Claman (July 6, 1927July 17, 2021) was a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for having composed the 1968 theme song for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) ''Hockey Night In Canada'' show, known simply as "The ...
(1927–2021)
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Carleton Elliott
Carleton Weir Elliott (15 March 1928, Welland, Ontario24 August 2003, Fredericton, New Brunswick) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, Music theory, music theorist, choir conductor and music educator.
Early life and education
Elliott was the so ...
(1928–2003)
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Lloyd Blackman
Lloyd Jason Blackman (born 24 September 1983) is an English retired semi-professional footballer who is assistant manager of Tonbridge Angels. As a player, he played as a forward in the Football League for Brentford and after his release in 2 ...
(1928–2014)
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André Mathieu
André Mathieu (18 February 1929 – 2 June 1968) was a Canadian pianist and composer.
Life
Mathieu was born René André Rodolphe Mathieu on 18 February 1929 in Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the parish of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur ...
(1929–1968)
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Serge Garant
Albert Antonio Serge Garant, (September 22, 1929 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of ''Musique de notre siècle'' on Radio-Canada.
Alcides Lanza
Alcides Emigdio Lanza (born 2 June 1929) is a Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, and music educator of Argentinian birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1976. As both a composer and performer he is known as an exponent of conte ...
(born 1929)
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Roger Matton
Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June 2004) was a Canadian composer,Begins with the Oboe: A History of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra'. University of Toronto Press; 2002. . p. 80, 104. ethnomusicologist, and music educator. As a composer his wo ...
(1929–2004)
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Ron Collier
Ron Collier, (July 3, 1930 – October 22, 2003) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. He performed in and led a number of jazz groups, and created orchestrations for and recorded with Duke Ellington.
Early life and educati ...
(1930–2003)
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Gustav Ciamaga
Gustav Ciamaga (April 10, 1930 – June 11, 2011) was a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he was best known for his compositions of electronic ...
Ruth Lomon
Ruth Lomon (7 November 1930 – 26 September 2017) was a Canadian classical composer.
A native of Montreal, Canada, she was born in Montreal and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended le Conservatoire de Quebec and McGill University. Sh ...
F. R. C. Clarke
Frederick Robert Charles Clarke, known largely by his initials F. R. C. Clarke (August 7, 1931 – November 18, 2009) was a Canadian musician and composer who spent most of his musical career in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Clarke was born in Van ...
(1931–2009)
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Derek Holman
Derek Holman, (16 May 1931 – 20 May 2019) was a choral conductor, organist and composer.
Life and work
Born at Illogan, Cornwall, UK, Holman attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1948 to 1952 and studied with Sir William McKie, Er ...
(1931–2019)
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Rudolf Komorous
Rudolf Komorous (born 8 December 1931, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born Canadian composer. His works include ''Twenty-Three Poems about Horses'' (1978), based on the poetry of Li Ho
Li He ( – ) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dyn ...
(born 1931)
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Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (; né Gold; September 25, 1932October 4, 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann ...
(1932–1982)
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Michael Colgrass
Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American-born Canada-based musician, composer, and educator.
Life and career
Colgrass was born in Brookfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His musical career began in Chicag ...
Walter Buczynski
Walter Joseph Buczynski (born 17 December 1933) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist.R. Murray Schafer
Raymond Murray Schafer (18 July 1933 – 14 August 2021) was a Canadian composer, writer, music educator, and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book ''The Tuning of the ...
(born 1933)
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Ben McPeek
Benjamin Dewey McPeek (28 August 1934 – 14 January 1981) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, arranger,Jeanette Leech. Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk'. Jawbone Press; 2010. . p. 80–. conducting, conductor, and ...
(1934–1981)
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Srul Irving Glick
Srul Irving Glick (September 8, 1934 – April 17, 2002) was a Canadian composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto 1955, and a Masters of Music ...
(1934–2002)
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Norma Beecroft
Norma Marian Beecroft (born 11 April 1934) is a Canadian composer, record producer, producer, Radio personality, broadcaster, and arts administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she ...
(born 1934)
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Jack Behrens
Jack Behrens (born 25 March 1935) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and writer of American birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music has been performed throughout North Ame ...
(born 1935)
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John Arpin
John Francis Oscar Arpin (3 December 1936 – 8 November 2007) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, recording artist and entertainer, best known for his work as a virtuoso ragtime pianist.
Born in Port McNicoll, Ontario, Port McNicoll, Ontario A ...
(1936–2007)
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Milan Kymlicka
Milan Kymlicka (Czech: Milan Kymlička; 15 May 1936 – 9 October 2008) was a Czechoslovak and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor. He was known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television ...
(1936–2008)
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Léon Bernier
Léon Bernier (6 September 1936, Hull, Quebec (now Gatineau, Quebec) - 11 October 2011, Longueuil) was a Canadian composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, accompanist, and music pedagogue. He composed and arranged music for numerous programs on Can ...
(1936–2011)
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Malcolm Forsyth
Malcolm Forsyth, (December 8, 1936 – July 5, 2011) was a South African and Canadian trombonist and composer. His daughter is former National Arts Centre Orchestra principal cellist Amanda Forsyth.
Life and career
Forsyth was born in Piete ...
(1936–2011)
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Hagood Hardy
Hugh Hagood Hardy, (February 26, 1937 – January 1, 1997) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He played mainly jazz and easy listening music. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming" from his album of the same na ...
(1937–1997)
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Ann Southam
Ann Southam, (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian electronic and classical music composer and music teacher. She is known for her minimalist, iterative, and lyrical style, for her long-term collaborations with dance choreogra ...
(1937–2010)
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Michael Conway Baker
Michael Conway Baker (born March 13, 1937) is a Canadians, Canadian composer and music educator of American birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1970 and has lived more or less continuously in the Vancouver area since.
Life and care ...
(born 1937)
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Diana McIntosh
Diana Maud McIntosh (March 4, 1932 Calgary, Alberta – Dec 22, 2022 Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a contemporary classical music, contemporary Canadian classical music, Canadian composer and pianist who was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hailed by the ''C ...
(born 1937)
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Jacques Hétu
Jacques Hétu (August 8, 1938 – February 9, 2010) was a Canadian composer and music educator.
Biography
Jacques Hétu was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec; he began his professional training at the University of Ottawa where he was a pupil ...
(1938–2010)
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Alain Gagnon
Alain Gagnon (22 May 1938 − 26 March 2017) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Laval, Quebec. His compositions have been performed by ensembles throughout Canada.
Early life and education
Gagnon was born in Trois-Pistoles, Queb ...
Victor Davies
Victor Albert Davies is a Canadian composer, pianist, and conductor, best known for his opera ''Transit of Venus'' and '' The Mennonite Piano Concerto''.
Biography
Davies was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939. As a child and teenager, he st ...
(born 1939)
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Bruce Mather
Bruce Mather (born May 9, 1939) is a Canadian composer, pianist, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music. One of the most notable composers of microtonal music, he was awarded the Jules Léger ...
John Wyre
John Harvey Wyre (17 May 1941 – 31 October 2006) was a United States, U.S.-born Canadians, Canadian percussionist, composer, and music educator. He worked as percussionist with a number of important orchestras in North America, notably serving f ...
(1941–2006)
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Brian Cherney
Brian Cherney (born 1942) is a Canadian composer currently residing in Montreal, Quebec.
Cherney was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwi ...
(born 1942)
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José Evangelista
José Evangelista (5 August 1943 – 10 January 2023) was a Spanish composer and music educator who was based in Montreal, Canada. He was professor of composition at the Université de Montréal from 1979 to 2009. A member of the Canadian Leagu ...
John Mills-Cockell
John Mills-Cockell (born 19 May 1943) is a Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist, perhaps best known for his ground-breaking work with progressive / avant garde Canadian groups Intersystems and Syrinx, and for his numerous works for radio, ...
John Hawkins
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
(1944–2007)
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John Fodi
John Fodi (22 March 1944 – 2 November 2009) was a composer and music librarian. Born in Hungary, he became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1961. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was a founding member of ARRAYMUSIC, an organizatio ...
(1944–2009)
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Bruce Carlson
Bruce Allen Carlson (born October 3, 1949), was the 17th Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He is a former four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the sixth Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright ...
(born 1944)
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Raynald Arseneault
Raynald Arseneault (9 June 1945 – 27 January 1995) was a Canadian composer and organist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consists of more than 50 works. His style was particularly influenced by Ivan Wysc ...
(1945–1995)
Contemporary/Postmodern
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Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Douglas Cockburn ( ; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics including human rights, environmental issues, po ...
Yves Daoust
Yves Daoust (born 10 April 1946) is a Canadian composer who is particularly known for his works of electroacoustic music. He currently resides in Montréal.
Life
Born in Longueuil, Quebec, Daoust began his musical studies at the age of seven ...
(born 1946)
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René Dupéré
René Dupéré (born 1946) is a Canadian composer from Mont-Joli, Québec, Canada.
Biography
Dupéré is best known as the composer and arranger of music for contemporary circus productions by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil ...
Michel Longtin
Michel Longtin (born 20 May 1946) is a Canadian composer and music educator based in Montreal. 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 19 ...
(born 1946)
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Nikolai Korndorf
Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf (russian: Николáй Серге́евич Корндóрф, January 23, 1947 – May 30, 2001) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouve ...
(1947–2001)
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Walter Boudreau
Walter Boudreau, (born 1947 in Sorel) is a Canadian 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 m ...
(born 1947)
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Clifford Ford
Clifford Robert Ford (born 30 May 1947) is a Canadian composer,
Carl Morey. Music in Canada: A Research and Information Guide'. Routledge; 26 November 2013. . p. 30. editor, music educator, and author. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he ...
(born 1947)
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Steven Gellman
Steven Gellman (born 16 September 1947) is a Canadian composer and pianist. He has been commissioned to write works for the Besançon International Music Festival, the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic, McGill University, Musica ...
(born 1947)
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Peter Paul Koprowski
Peter Paul Koprowski (born 24 August 1947, in Łódź) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist of Polish descent. He became a Canadian citizen in 1976. As a composer he is chiefly known for his large output of symphonic wo ...
(born 1947)
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Gene Martynec
Eugene "Gene" Martynec (born 28 March 1947) is a Canadian musician, composer and record producer.
Career
Martynec first came to prominence as a guitarist in Toronto group Bobby Kris & The Imperials in August 1965. He left the group in May 1967 ...
(born 1947)
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Claude Vivier
Claude Vivier ( ; baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian contemporary composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin. After studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Vivier became an i ...
Jim Hiscott
James Michael Hiscott (born 4 December 1948) is a Canadian composer, radio producer, and accordionist. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositions are characterized by their strong ...
(born 1948)
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Lubomyr Melnyk
Lubomyr Melnyk (born December 22, 1948) is a composer and pianist of Ukrainian origin.
Melnyk is noted for his ''continuous music'', a piano technique based on extremely rapid notes and complex note-series, usually with the sustain pedal held ...
(born 1948)
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Marjan Mozetich
Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet ...
(born 1948)
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Chan Ka Nin
Chan Ka Nin (born 3 December 1949) is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned to write works for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orc ...
(born 1949)
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David Foster
David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...
(born 1949)
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Fariborz Lachini
Fariborz Lachini ( fa, فریبرز لاچینی; born August 25, 1949) is an Iranian film score composer.
Career
He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attent ...
(born 1949)
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Alexina Louie
Alexina Diane Louie, (born July 30, 1949) is a Canadian composer of contemporary art music. She has composed for various instrumental and vocal combinations in a variety of genres. She has fulfilled a number of commissions, and her works, whic ...
(born 1949)
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Denis Bédard
Denis Bédard (born 1950)L'Orgue'. Vol. Issues 281-284. Librairie Floury; 2008. p. 54. is a Canadians, Canadian composer of pipe organ, organ works (solo, duet, and with other instruments)Organists' Review'. Vol. 91, Issues 257-360. Incorporated ...
(born 1950)
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Christian Calon
Christian Calon (born 5 September 1950) is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Counc ...
(born 1950)
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Stephen Chatman
Stephen Chatman (born 28 February 1950) is an American-born Canadian composer residing in Vancouver. His compositions have been performed across Canada and in the United States.
Early life and education
Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota ...
Lisle Ellis
Lisle Ellis, (born November 17, 1951) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics.
Biography
Ellis was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. Ellis began playing electric bass in ...
(born 1951)
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Denis Gougeon
Denis Gougeon (born November 16, 1951) is a Canadians, 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 instrumen ...
Jacques Faubert
Jacques Faubert (born 30 May 1952) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator, known for founding the Mont-Royal Symphony Orchestra.
Early life and education
Faubert earned premiers prix in harmony, counterpoint, and fugue from the ...
Christos Hatzis
Christos Hatzis ( el, Χρήστος Χατζής; born 1953) is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.
Early ...
(born 1953)
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Scott Irvine
James Scott Irvine (born 30 December 1953) is a Canadians, Canadian composer, arranger, and tuba player based in Owen Sound, Ontario. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he has been commissi ...
(born 1953)
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Robin Minard
Robin Minard (born 1953) is a Canadian composer and installation artist.
Minard was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He began his studies of composition at the University of Ontario, then at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, ...
(born 1953)
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Gary Kulesha
Gary Kulesha (born 22 August 1954) is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (1988 ...
(born 1954)
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Denys Bouliane
Denys Bouliane (born May 8, 1955) is a Canadian composer and conductor. He is a Professor of Composition at McGill University.
Early life and education
Bouliane was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec. He is a graduate of Laval University (B.Mus 19 ...
(born 1955)
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Eleanor Joanne Daley
Eleanor Joanne Daley (born April 21, 1955) is a Canadian composer of choral and church music, a church choir director, choral clinician and accompanist. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Among her best-known works are ''The Rose Trilo ...
(born 1955)
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Jean Derome
Jean Derome (born June 29, 1955) is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal ''musique actuelle'' (new music) scene, Derome has been a member of experimental, jazz, and rock groups, and ...
(born 1955)
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William Beauvais
William Eugene Beauvais (born October 9, 1956) is a Canadian classical guitarist and composer who has performed in the United States, Europe, and across Canada.
Early life
Beauvais completed a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance at the Universi ...
(born 1956)
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Timothy Brady
Timothy Wesley John Brady (born 11 July 1956) is a Canadian composer, electric guitarist, improvising musician, concert producer, record producer and cultural activist. Working in the field of contemporary classical music, experimental music, a ...
(born 1956)
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Paul Dolden
Paul Dolden (born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada), is an electroacoustic music composer, currently living in Montréal, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic ...
(born 1956)
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Larysa Kuzmenko
Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956) is a Juno Awards-nominated Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. She currently teaches on the music faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto.
Early life
Kuzmenko was ...
(born 1956)
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Linda Bouchard
Linda Bouchard (born 21 May 1957) is a Canadian composer and conductor. She is also an active conductor, teacher and producer.
Biography
Bouchard was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. She has a BA in music (Bennin ...
(born 1957)
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René Lussier
René Lussier (born April 15, 1957) is a jazz guitarist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a composer, guitarist, bass guitarist, percussionist, bass clarinetist, and singer. Lussier has collaborated with Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Jean Dero ...
(born 1957)
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Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television film score, scores. He won both the Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe and Academy Awards, Oscar for Academy Award for Best Original Score, Best Original Score f ...
(born 1958)
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Colin Eatock
Colin Eatock is a Canadian composer, author and journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Life and career
Eatock was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1958, and attended the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and The University of Tor ...
(born 1958)
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Andrew Paul MacDonald
Andrew Paul MacDonald (born 30 November 1958) is a Canadian classical composer, guitarist, conductor, and music educator. His compositions have been performed in many countries and recorded by well-known musical ensembles.
Early life and educat ...
(born 1958)
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John Abram
John Abram (born 1959) is an Anglo-Canadian composer
Born in England, Abram became interested in music when he was six; he began composing in his teenage years. He took composition lessons with Roger Marsh and Peter Dickinson at Keele Universit ...
(born 1959)
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James Gelfand
James Gelfand (born April 3, 1959) is a Canadian jazz pianist who has written scores for film and television.
Early life
Gelfand was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a large Jewish family. He is the great-grandson of Jacob Pascal, founder ...
(born 1959)
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James Keelaghan
James Keelaghan (born October 28, 1959) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Keelaghan is now based in Perth, Ontario. Many of the lyrics in his songs display a concern about social problems and justice in society. E ...
(born 1959)
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Omar Daniel
Omar Daniel (born 1960) is a Canadian composer and pianist, and an associate professor of composition at the University of Western Ontario, Western University.
Early life and education
Daniel was born in Toronto, Ontario, of Estonian descent. H ...
(born 1960)
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Amin Bhatia
Amin Bhatia (born 10 July 1961, London, England) is a Canadian-British recording artist, film, and television music score composer and producer. In 1981, his compositions won the Roland Corporation International Synthesizer competition for two con ...
(born 1961)
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John Burge
John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (198 ...
(born 1961)
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Andrew Ager
Andrew Ager (born 12 February 1962) is a Canadian composer of symphonies, operas, chamber, and solo music. He lives in Ottawa, where he composes full-time.
Early life
Andrew Ager was born to a musical family. His maternal grandfather, Charles A ...
(born 1962)
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Ned Bouhalassa
Ned Bouhalassa (born 25 August 1962 in Le Mans, France) is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been living in Montreal since 1967.
In 1993, he began composing tele ...
(born 1962)
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Arne Eigenfeldt
Arne Eigenfeldt (born 1962) is a Canadians, Canadian composer and creator of interactive and generative music systems based in Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia. Both his music and his research into intelligent systems have been presented int ...
(born 1962)
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Alain Lefèvre
Alain Lefèvre, (born July 23, 1962) is a French Canadian pianist and composer. He is one of the Québécois pianists who have sold the greatest number of musical recordings.
In 2009, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. He w ...
(born 1962)
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Leo Marchildon
Leo Marchildon (born May 30, 1962) is a Canadian organist,
(born 1962)
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Allison Cameron
Allison Cameron, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ''House'', portrayed by American actress Jennifer Morrison. An immunologist, Cameron was a member of Dr. Gregory House's team of handpicked specialists at Princeton-Plains ...
(born 1963)
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Veronika Krausas
Veronika Judita Krausas (born 1963) is a Canadian composer who lives and works in the United States.
Biography
She was born in Sydney, Australia but grew up in Canada after the age of four. Her diplomas in music education and performance were co ...
(born 1963)
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Edwin Orion Brownell
Edwin Orion Brownell (born November 30, 1964 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian musician and author. He is a neo-classical composer and concert pianist whose original music has been described as highly melodic; exhibiting an improvisational blue ...
(born 1964)
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Benoît Charest
Benoît Charest (; born in 1964) is a Canadian guitarist and film score composer from Quebec. He is best known for the soundtrack of the animated film ''The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville)'' (2003), for which he won a César ...
(born 1964)
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Jeff Danna
Jeff Danna is an award-winning Canadian film composer. He has composed or co-composed scores for a wide range of films and television, including ''The Boondock Saints'' (1999), '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' (2004), ''Silent Hill'' (2006)'', The I ...
(born 1964)
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Brent Lee
Brent Lee (born 1964, Wynyard, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor. Growing up, he studied guitar and saxophone. He received a Bachelor's (1986) and Master's (1990) degree in Music ...
(born 1964)
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Allan Gilliland
Allan Gilliland (born 1965 in Darvel, Scotland) is a contemporary Canadian composer.
Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies (trumpet) from Humber College, and degrees in perfor ...
John Estacio
John Estacio (born April 8, 1966) is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music.
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Life and career
Estacio was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio t ...
(born 1966)
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Melissa Hui
Melissa Hui is a Chinese-Canadian composer and pianist. She was born in 1966 in Hong Kong and currently resides in Montreal where she has been a faculty member at McGill University since 2010. Notable works by this artist include ''and blue sparks ...
(born 1966)
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David Kristian
David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician and film score composer and sound designer.
David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first started work as an animation and experimental fil ...
(born 1967)
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André Éric Létourneau
André Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, researcher, author, musician, composer, curator and professor based primarily in Montreal and Saint-Alponse-Rodriguez, Québec, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most ...
(born 1967)
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Lesley Barber
Lesley Barber (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of music for film, theatre, chamber and orchestral ensembles and she is also a conductor, pianist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Barber is best known for composing the film scores for '' Ma ...
(born 1968)
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Éric Morin
Éric Morin (born December 20, 1969) is a Canadian composer. He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his ''D'un Château l'autre'' and the CBC Radio National Competi ...
(born 1969)
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Jocelyn Morlock
Jocelyn Morlock (born 1969) is a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver. Her piece ''My Name is Amanda Todd'' won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.
Early life and education
Morlock was born in Saint B ...
(born 1969)
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Desmond Gaspar
Desmond Gaspar is a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer and songwriter who works as a freelance concert artist and ballet pianist who won the Associateship and Fellowship diplomas of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in consecu ...
(born 1970)
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Chris Harman
Chris Harman (8 November 1942 – 7 November 2009) was a British journalist and political activist, and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (UK), Socialist Workers Party. He was an editor of ''International Soc ...
(born 1970)
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Analia Llugdar
Analia Llugdar (born 1972) is an Argentine composer living and working in Montreal, Quebec since 1999. She has created both instrumental and vocal compositions, and has won several music competitions.
Early life and education
Llugdar was born in A ...
(born 1972)
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Emily Doolittle
Emily Lenore Doolittle (born 16 October 1972) is a Canadian composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Her music, frequently inspired by ...
(born 1972)
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Derek Charke
Derek Charke (; born 1974) is a Canadian classical composer and flutist.
Career
In 2012, Derek Charke won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year, Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his work, "Sepia Fragments." The ...
(born 1974)
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Kati Agócs
Kati Ilona Agócs (born January 20, 1975) is an American-Canadian composer and a member of the composition faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Education
Agócs attended the Juilliard School in New York wher ...
(born 1975)
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Jimmie LeBlanc
Jimmie LeBlanc (born 1977) is a Canadian composer specializing in instrumental and mixed music. His music has been performed throughout his native country and internationally, including by the Ensemble Contrechamps, Hwaum Chamber Ensemble, Kor ...
(born 1977)
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Andrew Staniland
Andrew Staniland (born 1977) is a Canadian composer and guitarist. He is currently a professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Biography
Andrew Staniland was born in Red Deer, Alberta, in 1977. H ...
(born 1977)
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Aaron Gervais
Aaron Gervais is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music who lives in San Francisco.
He studied jazz performance at Grant MacEwan College and the University of Toronto, and composition at the University of Alberta, the University of ...
(born 1980)
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Christopher Mayo
Christopher Mayo (born 1980) is a Canadians, Canadian composer of contemporary classical music.
Born in Toronto, Mayo studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough ...
(born 1980)
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Samuel Andreyev
Samuel Andreyev (born Samuel Curnoe Andreeff; 15 April 1981) is a Canadian composer, singer-songwriter, poet and educator who has resided in France since 2003. As of 2021, he had completed about 30 works, nearly all of which have been recorded co ...
(born 1981)
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Kyle Bobby Dunn
Kyle Bobby Dunn (born February 27, 1986) is a Canadian composer, arranger, and live performer of modern compositional and guitar based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 200 ...
(born 1986)
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Sarah Davachi
Sarah Davachi (born 1987 in Calgary) is a Canadian experimental musician and composer of electroacoustic and minimalist music. She is a pianist and organist.
She is a graduate of the University of Calgary and holds a master's degree in electronic ...
(born 1987)
Jazz and other composers (listed alphabetically)
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Moe Koffman
Morris "Moe" Koffman, Order of Canada, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadians, Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s, Koffman was one of Cana ...
(1928–2001)
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Phil Nimmons
Phillip Rista Nimmons, (born June 3, 1923) is a Canadian jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and educator. Nimmons is known for playing in a "Free Jazz" and mainstream styles. As well as playing jazz, Nimmons also played other genres, notab ...
(born 1923)
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Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955) is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer.
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle De ...
(born 1955)
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Oscar O'Brien
Oscar O'Brien (7 September 1892 – 20 September 1958) was a Canadian folklorist, composer, pianist, organist, music educator, and Roman Catholic priest. A large portion of his compositions were based in folklore and he also arranged and harm ...
(1892–1958)
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Michael Oesterle
Michael Oesterle (born 1968) is a German-born Canadian composer currently living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French a ...
(born 1968)
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John Oliver
John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is a British-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Oliver started his career as a stand-up comedian in the United Kingdom. He came to wider attention ...
Owen Pallett
Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their erstwhile moniker of Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album ''He Poos Clouds''. Pallet ...
(born 1979)
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Donald Patriquin Donald Patriquin (born October 21, 1938 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian composer, organist, and choral conductor. Known internationally for choral and instrumental arrangements of folk music, Patriquin was a member of the Faculty of Music of Mc ...
(born 1938)
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Trevor W. Payne
Trevor Winston Payne, (born 21 December 1948) is a Canadians, Canadian musician and member of the Order of Canada (1996). He is the founder of the Montreal Black Comunity Youth Choir, as well as the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir.
Early lif ...
(born 1948)
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Kenneth Peacock
Kenneth Howard Peacock (7 April 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist. He was a leading authority in Canadian enthnomusicology, and his research and publications in that field had a profound impact on t ...
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, ...
(1925–2007)
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Michel Perrault
Michel Brunet Perrault (born 20 July 1925) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and percussionist. As a composer, his work largely pulls on Canadian folk melodies and his compositions include classical of harmony and counterpoint. ...
(born 1925)
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Jean Piché
Jean Piché (born 1951 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a Canadian composer and video artist.
Piché studied electroacoustic and computer music at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He has ...
(born 1951)
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Dave Pierce
Dave Pierce (born October 24, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer and arranger. Pierce was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, for which he received an Emmy ...
(born 1972)
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Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters (born 28 December 1959) is a Canadian composer who is known for his output of roughly 100 film scores made mostly for Canadian films.
Early life and education
Peters was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He graduated from the Universit ...
(born 1959)
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Benoît Poirier
Benoît Fidèle Poirier (17 October 1882 – 7 October 1965) was a Canadian organist,Brian Christopher Thompson. Anthems and Minstrel Shows: The Life and Times of Calixa Lavallée, 1842-1891'. MQUP; May 2015. . p. 19–. composer, and mus ...
(1882–1965)
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Paul Pratt
Paul Pratt (25 November 1894 – 8 May 1967) was a Canadian clarinetist, pianist, conductor, music educator, composer, and public administrator. His compositional output includes marches, waltzes, a ''Fantaisie-Impromptu'' for band, and so ...
(1894–1967)
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Albert Pratz
Albert Pratz (13 May 1914 – 28 March 1995) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal in 1967. His compositional output was modest and consists of only instrumental works. ...
Donald Quan
Donald Quan (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and world music, best known for writing the scores to television shows '' Relic Hunter'' and '' Mutant X''.
Career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, and schooled at the Berklee College of Music in ...
Imant Raminsh
Imant Karlis Raminsh ( Latvian: Imants Kārlis Ramiņš, born 18 September 1943) is a Canadian composer of Latvian descent, best known for his choral compositions. He resides in Coldstream, British Columbia.
Early life and education
Born in ...
(born 1943)
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Jan Randall
Jan Randall is a Canadian composer, singer songwriter and professional musician. He has had an extensive career composing sound tracks, performing original songs, and improvising music for comedy theatre.
He currently plays regularly with his ba ...
(born 1952)
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Eldon Rathburn
Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada. Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers",< ...
(1916–2008)
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Elizabeth Raum
Elizabeth Raum (born 13 January 1945) is a Canadian oboist and composer.
Biography
Elizabeth Raum was born in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1945, but became a Canadian citizen in 1985. She studied oboe performance with Robert Sprenkle at the Eastma ...
Doug Riley
Douglas Brian Riley, CM (April 12, 1945 – August 27, 2007) was a Canadian musician, also known as Dr. Music. He spent two decades with the Famous People Players as its musical director, besides his participation on over 300 album projects ...
(1945–2007)
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André Ristic
André Ristic (born December 19, 1972) is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work ''Catalogue de bombes occident ...
(born 1972)
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Normand Roger
Normand Roger (born 1949 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian composer, sound editor and sound designer. He is particularly known for his work as a composer of soundtracks for animated films, having composed more than 200 such works since 1970. He ...
(born 1949)
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Stan Rogers
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
Rogers was noted for his rich, baritone voice and his traditional-sounding songs which were frequently inspired by Canadian history and th ...
(1949–1983)
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James Rolfe
James D. Rolfe (born July 10, 1980) is an American YouTuber, online personality, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retrogaming web series '' The Angry Video Game Nerd'' (2004–present). His spin-of ...
(born 1961)
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Ivan Romanoff
Ivan Romanoff (8 March 1914 – 14 March 1997) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, arranger, and composer. For three decades he led the "Ivan Romanoff Orchestra and Chorus" on a variety of radio and television programs for the Canadian Broad ...
(1914–1997)
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Clark Ross
Clark Winslow Ross is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and music educator of Venezuelan birth. A composer of mainly works for orchestra and chamber music, he has won first prize in composition competitions held by the Hamilton Philharmonic (1993, ...
(born 1957)
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Myke Roy
Myke Roy (born 2 July 1950) 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 electroa ...
Welford Russell
Welford Russell (30 October 1900 – 1975) was a Canadian composer based in Toronto, Ontario. He is particularly remembered for his output of choral works.James Neufeld. Lois Marshall: A Biography'. Dundurn; 5 April 2010. . p. 232.
Early life a ...
(c.1901–1975)
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Jeffrey Ryan
Jeffrey Ryan (born 1962) is a Canadian composer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. His compositional style ranges from opera, art song, and choral music to chamber ensemble and orchestral works. Ryan has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orche ...
(born 1962)
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Marc Sabat
Marc Sabat (born 22 September 1965) is a Canadian composer based in Berlin, Germany, since 1999.
Works
He has made concert music pieces, works with video, and installations with acoustic instruments and, in some recent pieces, computer-generate ...
(born 1965)
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Charles Wugk Sabatier
Charles-Désiré-Joseph Wugk Sabatier (1 December 1819 – 22 August 1862) was a Canadian pianist, organist, composer, and music educator of French birth.
Early life and career in Europe
Born Charles Wugk in Tourcoing, Sabatier was the son of ...
(1819–1862)
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Patrick Saint-Denis
Patrick Saint-Denis (born 1975) is a Canadian composer based in Montreal. His works have been performed at music festivals in North America, Europe, and Asia. His composition, ''Les dits de Victoire'', was awarded first prize in the SOCAN young ...
(born 1975)
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Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (9 August 1938 – 2 February 1985) was a Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid-19 ...
(1938–1985)
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Herbert Sanders
Herbert Sanders (20 September 1878 – 18 May 1938) was a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer, music writer, and music educator of English birth. His compositions include numerous sacred songs, anthems, and organ works. He twi ...
(1878–1938)
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Armando Santiago
Armando Santiago (born 18 June 1932) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and university administrator of Portuguese birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers, his compositional output includes a considerable amount of or ...
(born 1932)
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Charles Sauvageau
Michel-Charles Sauvageau (October or November 1807 – 16 June 1849) was a Canadian conductor, composer, and music educator. He is believed to be the first native of Quebec to devote his entire life to music. An August 1844 article in the per ...
(1807–1849)
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Oliver Schroer
Oliver Schroer (June 18, 1956 – July 3, 2008) was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer.
Early life
Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small farming community near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey Highl ...
(1956–2008)
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Ernest Seitz
Ernest Joseph Seitz (29 February 189210 September 1978) was a Canadian composer, songwriter, pianist, and music educator. He published some of his work under the pseudonym "Raymond Roberts" because he did not wish to be associated with popular m ...
(1892–1978)
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Paul Shaffer
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader, and sidekick on the entire run of both '' Late ...
(born 1949)
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Rodney Sharman
Rodney Sharman (born 24 May 1958) is a Canadian composer and flutist based in Vancouver. His music has been performed in over 30 countries worldwide. He has won several international and national awards, including First Prize in the 1984 CBC Compe ...
(born 1958)
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'' film trilogies. ...
(born 1946)
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Anita Sleeman
Anita Sleeman (née Andrés) (December 12, 1930 – October 18, 2011) was a Canadian contemporary classical music composer. She was also a conductor, arranger, educator, and performer.
Biography
Life
Born Anita Andrés December 12, 1930, in San ...
(1930–2011)
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Linda Catlin Smith
Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a Canadian composer based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.
Smith studied composition and theory with All ...
Paul Steenhuisen
Paul Steenhuisen (born 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer working with a broad range of acoustic and digital media. His concert music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, and often includes live electr ...
(born 1965)
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Ben Steinberg
Ben Steinberg (22 January 1930 – 10 February 2023) was a Canadian composer,Jack Wertheimer. The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed'. Cambridge University Press; 13 February 2003. . p. 402–.Fred Rosenbaum. Visions of reform: Congreg ...
(born 1930)
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Donald Steven
Donald Steven (born 26 May 1945) is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University ...
(born 1945)
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Fred Stone
Fred Andrew Stone (August 19, 1873 – March 6, 1959) was an American actor. Stone began his career as a performer in circuses and minstrel shows, went on to act in vaudeville, and became a star on Broadway and in feature films, which earned h ...
(1935–1986)
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Timothy Sullivan
Timothy Daniel Sullivan (July 23, 1862 – August 31, 1913) was a New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery and Lower East Side districts as a prominent leader within Tammany Hall. He was known euphemistically as "Dry Dollar", as the ...
(born 1954)
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Norman Symonds
Norman Alec Symonds (23 December 1920Clifford Ford. Canada's music: an historical survey'. GLC Publishers; 1982. p. 233. – 21 August 1998) was a Canadians, Canadian composer, clarinetist, and saxophonist who lived and worked in Toronto, Ontari ...
(1920–1998)
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Boleslaw Szczeniowski
Boleslaw Szczeniowski (20 July 1898 – 1985) was a Canadians, Canadian aeronautical engineer and composer of Polish descent. A graduate of the school of engineering at Lviv Polytechnic, Szczeniowski made a living as an engineer in Montréal. H ...
Georges-Émile Tanguay
Georges-Émile Tanguay (5 June 1893 – 24 November 1964) was a Canadian composer, organist, pianist, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output is relatively small; consisting of 4 orchestral wor ...
(1893–1964)
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Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann
Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (ca. 1855 – 30 March 1946) was a German-Canadian composer of operettas, conductor and educator, and violinist best known for his operetta ''Leo, the Royal Cadet''.
Early life
Telgmann was born in Mengeringhausen (now ...
(1855–1946)
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Steve Tittle
Steve Tittle (born May 20, 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian composer and music educator.
Biography
Tittle was born in Willard, Ohio. He studied composition at Kent State University with Harold Miles (composer), Harold Miles, John White (American c ...
(born 1935)
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Peter Togni
Peter Anthony Togni (born September 12, 1959) is a freelance Canadian composer and broadcaster based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Togni's music is deeply felt, simply put, well-crafted and irradiated by a personal sense of the divine."
Biography
To ...
Jerry Toth
Jaroslav "Jerry" Toth (15 November 1928 – 31 March 1999) was a Canadian saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, arranger, composer, and record producer.
Life and career
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Toth was the son of violinist and cimbalom maker Car ...
(1928–1999)
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Rudy Toth
Rudy Toth (16 December 1925 – 9 July 2009) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and cimbalom player of Czech birth. As a composer he wrote works mainly for television and the radio, working frequently for the Canadian ...
(1925–2009)
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Bramwell Tovey
Bramwell Tovey (11 July 1953 – 12 July 2022) was a British conductor and composer.
Life and career
Tovey was educated at Ilford County High School, the Royal Academy of Music and the University of London. His formal music education was as ...
Amédée Tremblay
Pierre-Joseph Amédée Tremblay (14 April 1876 – 14 July 1949) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. A largely self-taught composer, his output includes several motets, two masses, a few patriotic songs, works for solo orga ...
(1876–1949)
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George Tremblay
George Amédée Tremblay (14 January 1911 – 14 July 1982) was a Canadian (and later, naturalized American citizen) pianist, composer, and author who was active in the United States. Although his works display a broad range of stylistic influence ...
Barry Truax
Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes.
He is credited with developing the first ever implementation of real-time granular s ...
(born 1947)
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Ian Tyson
Ian Dawson Tyson (September 25, 1933 – December 29, 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who wrote several folk songs, including "Four Strong Winds" and " Someday Soon", and performed with partner Sylvia Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia.
Ear ...
(born September 25, 1933)
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Owen Underhill
Owen Underhill (born January 26, 1954) is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor to the new music scene on the West Coast, a ...
(born 1954)
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Jean Vallerand
Jean Vallerand, National Order of Quebec, CQ (December 24, 1915 – June 24, 1994) was a composer, music critic, violinist, conductor, arts administrator, writer, and music educator from Quebec. As a composer he was active from 1935 to 1969. An a ...
(1915–1994)
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Stéphane Venne
Stéphane Venne (born July 2, 1941 in Verdun, Quebec) is a French-Canadian songwriter and composer. He also worked as head of production for the Canadian arm of Barclay Records and as a radio station executive. He composed music for several film ...
(born 1941)
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Benoît Verdickt
Benoît Verdickt (27 September 1884 – 28 April 1970) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth.Leen D'Haenens. Images of Canadianness'. University of Ottawa Press; 1998. . p. 82–. His compositional out ...
(1884–1970)
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Joseph Vézina
François-Joseph Vézina (June 11, 1849 in Quebec City – October 5, 1924 in Quebec City) was a Quebec conductor, composer, organist and music professor. Vézina is buried in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont in Sainte-Foy.
Early life
V ...
(1849–1924)
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Albert Viau
Albert Viau (6 November 1910 – 27 June 2001) was a Canadian baritone, folksinger, composer, and music educator. After beginning his career as a musician in the classical repertoire, he specialized in folk music and traditional songs. He ...
Calvin Vollrath
Calvin Vollrath (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian fiddler and composer and is one of the few European-Canadian fiddle players playing professionally in the Métis style. He lives in St. Paul, Alberta.
Vollrath won the Grand North American O ...
(born 1960)
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Arnold Walter Arnold Maria Walter, OC (August 30, 1902 – October 6, 1973) was a Canadian musicologist, educator, composer and writer. He founded the Canadian Opera Company, and was Director of Music at University of Toronto.
Early years
Arnold Maria Walter wa ...
(1902–1973)
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Ruth Watson Henderson
Ruth Louise Watson Henderson (born 23 November 1932) is a Canadian composer and pianist. She was the accompanist for the Festival Singers of Canada under Dr. Elmer Iseler for many years, where she developed her ear for composing mixed-choral wor ...
(born 1932)
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Frank Welsman
Frank Squire Welsman (20 December 1873 – 2 July 1952) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer and music educator. He began his career as a concert pianist, but ultimately earned his place in Canadian history for establishing Toronto's fir ...
(1873–1952)
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John Welsman
John Joseph Welsman (born 1955) is a Canadian composer known for his work in film and television. He has written film and television scores for production companies in both Canada and the United States. Some of the films he has worked on are '' ...
(born 1955)
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Hildegard Westerkamp
Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher and sound ecologist of German origin.Kirk MacKenzie. "Westerkamp, Hildegard." ''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Oxford ...
(born 1946)
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Dinuk Wijeratne
Dinuk Wijeratne (born 1978) is a conductor, composer and pianist, living and working in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His work ''Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems'' won both the 2016 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year and the 2016 East Co ...
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Eric Wild
Eric Wild (6 November 1914 – 10 August 1991) was Bishop of Reading from 1972 to 1982.
Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1938. His first post was as a Curate at ''St Anne, Stanley, Liverpool''. ...
Kathleen Yearwood
Kathleen Yearwood is a Canadian experimental singer-songwriter and author, born in 1958.
From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:
:This powerful and very radical Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as ...
(born 1958)
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Gayle Young
Gayle Young (born 22 Mar 1950) is a Canadians, Canadian composer and author. Young is an adherent of microtonality who has invented a number of musical instruments and musical notation, notational systems.
Early life and education
Young was born ...
(born 1950)
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Maurice Zbriger Maurice Zbriger (July 10, 1896, Kamenets-Podolskiy, Ukraine – April 5, 1981, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Canadian violinist, composer and conductor. He began learning violin as a child, and continued his studies at the conservatory in St. Pet ...
(1896–1981)
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Rui Shi Zhuo
Rui Shi Zhuo (, born 1956) is a Chinese-born Canadian composer, based in British Columbia. He has been commissioned by the Canada Council, and has written music for an animated film. He has been composer-in-residence for the Vancouver Chinese ...
(born 1956)
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Joel Zimmerman
Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (stylized as deadmau5; pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He mainly produces progressive house music, though he also produces ...
(born 1981)
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León Zuckert
León Zuckert (4 May 1904 – 29 May 1992) was a Canadian composer, conductor, arranger, violinist, violist and radio pioneer of Ukrainian descent. He was married to the poet Ella Bobrow, with whom he collaborated on many songs.
Early life and ...
(1904–1992)
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List of Canadian composers
This is a list of composers who are either native to the country of Canada, are citizens of that nation, or have spent a major portion of their careers living and working in Canada. The list is arranged in alphabetical order:
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