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

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and music educator who played an important role in the

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

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, she was commissioned to write works by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and the Quebec Contemporary Music Society.

Life and career

Born in La Doré, Quebec, Saint-Marcoux studied at the

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, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM), and the Conservatoire de Paris. Her teachers included Gilbert Amy,

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, Claude Champagne, Jean-Pierre Guézec, Yvonne Hubert, Clermont Pépin, Pierre Schaeffer, and Gilles Tremblay. In 1967 she was awarded the

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for composition with ''Modulaire'' for orchestra. In 1969 she co-founded the Groupe international de musique électroacoustique de Paris and in 1971 she was a co-founder of the Montréal percussion group Ensemble Polycousmie. From 1971 until her death in Montréal in 1984 she taught on the faculty of the CMQM.

References

1938 births 1985 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal École de musique Vincent-d'Indy alumni Canadian music educators Canadian women music educators Musicians from Quebec 20th-century Canadian composers Canadian women in electronic music 20th-century Canadian women musicians 20th-century classical composers {{Electronic-musician-stub