Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal

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Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal
AbbreviationCMQM
Formation1943
TypeConservatory
Legal statusactive
PurposeProfessional training in music
Location
Region served
Montreal, Quebec
Official language
French
Director
Manon Lafrance
Parent organization
Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec
Websitehttp://www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca

The Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM) is a

Saint-Jérôme, Sherbrooke, and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. The school is the first of nine conservatories in Quebec which form the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (CMADQ). The current director is Manon Lafrance.[1] In addition to practice rooms, classrooms and rehearsal halls, the conservatory contains 85 teaching studios, a 225-seat theater, a concert hall of 225 seats, a recital hall with 100 places, and a large music multimedia center with a recording studio. The conservatoire is also home to a substantial musical library.[2]

History

Claude Champagne (left) and Wilfrid Pelletier (right) at the opening of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal in 1943.

In the 1940s a report examining music education in Europe and in Canada, compiled by Canadian

Legislative Assembly of Quebec which allocated a $30,000 budget to form the CMADQ's first school, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMQM).[1]

The Conservatoire opened its doors in January 1943; at the time it was the first

percussionist Saul Goodman; trombonist Charles Gusikoff; and violinists Noël Brunet, Albert Chamberland, Camille Couture, Maurice Onderet, and Ethel Stark.[6]

music dictation were led by professors Gabriel Cusson, Alfred Mignault, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Isabelle Ria Lenssens among others. Clermont Pépin oversaw the music composition program and Jean Vallerand served on both the faculty and as general secretary. Pépin was later appointed the school's third director in 1967.[1] The violist Louis Bailly was also on the faculty and he founded Quatuor du Conservatoire in 1944, a string quartet in-residence at the CMQM during the mid-1940s.[1]

Originally the CMQM was entirely an instrumental program, but the school added a vocal music program in 1951 with courses in opera and choral music. Roger Filiatrault was appointed the vocal program's first director, and teachers included Rachele Maragliano-Mori, Dick Marzollo, and Martial Singher. Around this same time the Orchestre du Conservatoire, a 65-player student orchestra, was formed. Among its directors have been conductors Raymond Dessaints, Charles Houdret, Roland Leduc, Rémus Tzincoca, and, since 1980, Raffi Armenian, the school's current director.

In 1956 the school moved to facilities on

Palais de justice de Montréal, at 100 Notre-Dame Street which housed two electroacoustic studios, three rehearsal rooms, 11 practice studios, and 38 teaching studios. The building also contained two performance halls where the school's ensembles, students, and faculty performed public concerts: the Salle Gabriel-Cusson which seats approximately 200 people and the Salle Germaine-Malépart which seats 125.[1] By 1991 the Conservatoire's music library contained more than 56,000 books and scores, 111 current periodicals, and over 10,000 audiovisual documents.[1]

Cellist Yuli Turovsky taught at the Conservatoire in the 1970s.[7] In 1986 the school formed a chamber orchestra and in 1989 a wind orchestra was established under the direction of Alain Cazes.[1] In autumn 2001, the CMQM moved to its current location at 4750 avenue Henri-Julien. A major fire on December 7, 2005 seriously damaged the conservatory's facilities. The Government of Quebec restored the facilities at a cost of 46 million dollars, and the new premises opened in the summer of 2008.

List of directors

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Conservatoire de musique du Québec". The Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. ^ Fontes Artis Musicae. Vol. 34. Kassel und Bärenreiter-Verlag. 1987. p. 188.
  3. ISBN 978-1-55488-363-9
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  4. ^ "La mezzo-soprano québécoise Huguette Tourangeau s’est éteinte ". Le Devoir, Sylvain Cormier, 25 April 2018
  5. ISBN 978-0-7735-3391-2
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  6. ^ "Ethel Stark, créer son orchestre pour pouvoir tenir la baguette". Le Devoir, Christophe Huss, 4 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Montreal cellist Yuli Turovsky dies at 73". CBC News. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Lewis Furey brings Brahms back to life". Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette, October 23, 2016
  9. ^ National Library of Canada (1997). National Library News: Nouvelles de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Vol. 29. National Library of Canada.
  10. ^ "Composer Gilles Tremblay has died at 85". Montreal Gazette. July 29, 2017
  11. ^ "Why Quebec composer Claude Vivier was ahead of his time". The Globe and Mail]. April 13, 2018, by Catherine Kustanczy
  12. ^ Hélène Plouffe (December 16, 2013). "Arthur Romano". The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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