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Caroline Charrière
Caroline Charrière (26 December 1960 – 1 October 2018) was a Swiss composer, conductor, flautist and educator. From 2000 on she concentrated on composing, creating chamber music, choral music and orchestral pieces. In 2001, she established her reputation as a composer with the oratorio ''Le livre de Job'' (The Book of Job) for mixed choir, bass, soprano and orchestra. Her works have since been performed widely in Switzerland and abroad. Biography Born in Fribourg, Charrière studied transverse flute at the Lausanne Conservatory under Pierre Wavre, earning diplomas in teaching (1982) and concert performance (1984). She also began studying orchestration and composition in Lausanne under Jean Balissat, followed by post-graduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. She received her orchestral conducting diploma from the Lausanne Conservatory in 1994. Charrière taught the flute at the Fribourg Conservatory, established the "Choeur de Jade", a fema ...
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21st-century Swiss Classical Composers
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