Nicole Carignan

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Nicole Carignan (born 1952) is a Canadian composer and music educator living in Quebec.[1][2] She is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Early life and education

Carignan was born in Plessisville[1] and earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal.[3]

Career

Carignan has written articles about music education,[4] and has led seminars and workshops on composition in South Africa, Europe, Russia and the United States. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Université de Montréal, the Department of Education of UQAM and at Cleveland State University.[5]

Carignan taught music for the

Commission scolaire de Laval and also taught composition at the Akademi Musik Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Java. She was a professor at Cleveland State University and is currently a professor in Intercultural Education at UQAM.[5][6] She has also taught at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa.[7]

Carignan worked on a project called Music Box of Productions Pandore Inc., a

Alliance for Children and Television.[5]

Carignan created a number of musical works, including pieces for solo instruments and orchestral works. Over fifty of her compositions have premiered in locations around the world.[5]

She has earned honourable mentions from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for two of her projects: Intercultural encounters between immigrants learning French and pre-service teachers at UQAM and the development of a teacher's guide for the DVD A lesson in discrimination[7]

Selected compositions

  • "Quiebra" (1994)[8]
  • "Time, Space and Context: The Last 23 Days"[9]

References

  1. ^ a b ""By a Canadian Lady" Piano Music 1841 - 1997". Carleton University.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8161-0580-9
    . p. 122.
  3. ISBN 978-0-9697776-2-5
    . p. 37.
  4. ^ "Musicanada 2000: A Celebration of Canadian Composers (review)". CAML Review, R Elliott - 2002
  5. ^ a b c d "Nicole Carignan". Composer Showcase. Canadian Music Centre.
  6. ISBN 978-2-7116-2314-3
    . p. 47.
  7. ^ a b "Nicole Carignan, Ph. D." Centre d'études ethniques des universités montréalaises.
  8. ^ IAWM Journal. Vol. 7-8. The Alliance; 2001. p. 48.
  9. ^ "Association of Canadian Women Composers/Association des femmes compositeurs canadiennes". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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