Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (born August 9, 1938 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré , Québec , † February 2, 1985 in Montreal ) was a Canadian composer .

Coulombe Saint-Marcoux studied piano and harmony with François Brassard from 1956 to 1958 and piano with Yvonne Hubert from 1960 to 1963 , music theory with Françoise Aubut and composition with Claude Champagne at the École Vincent-d'Indy . Then she was a student of Gilles Tremblay and Clermont Pépin .

In 1967 she was awarded for the composition Modulaire a Prix d'Europe and lived 1968-70 in Paris, where she electronic music with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of ORTF studied and classes with Pierre Schaeffer at the Conservatoire de Paris took. She also had private lessons with Gilbert Amy and Jean-Pierre Guézec .

Together with five musicians, Coulombe Saint-Marcoux founded the Groupe international de musique électroacoustique de Paris (GIMEP), with which she went on concert tours through Europe, South America and Canada until 1973. Two of her compositions, Bernavir and Trakadie , were premiered by GIMEP in 1970.

After her return to Québec, she founded the ensemble Polycousmie with the percussionists Guy Lachapelle , Pierre Béluse and Robert Leroux , which was dedicated to the combination of electronic music, percussion and dance. With the group she took on a program for the series Sons et images of the CBC , another appeared the following year with Jean Laurendeau at the Ondes Martenot . Her composition Ishuma , a commission from the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec , was broadcast by the CBC in 1976.

Coulombe Saint-Marcoux taught at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec from 1971 to 1984 . She was also on the board of the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC), the Canadian Music Center and the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ). She was recognized by the Canadian Music Council in 1985 for her work and contribution to the musical life of Canada.

Works

• Suite Doréane for piano, 1961
• Chanson d'automne (after Paul Verlaine ) for soprano, flute, violin and piano, 1963
• Variations for piano, 1963
• Kaleidoscope for piano, 1964
• Modulaire for orchestra and Ondes Martenot, 1967
• Hétéromorphie for orchestra, 1969
• Luminance for orchestra, 1978
• Evocations doranes for flute piccolo, three flutes, oboe and clarinet, 1964
• Sonata for flute and piano, 1964
• Wing Tra La for choir and six actors, 1964
• String Quartet , 1966
• Equation I for two guitars, 1968
• Séquences for two Ondes Martenot and percussion, 1968
• Assemblages for piano, 1969
• Trakadie for percussion and tape, 1970
• Bernavir , 1970
• Arksalalartôq; Contrastances; Moustières , 1971
• Makazoti (after Noël Audet and Gilles Marsolais ) for eight voices, four wind instruments, two strings and percussion, 1971
• Zones , 1972
• Episode II for three percussionists, 1972
• Soundtrack for Tel qu'en Lemieux , 1973
• Alchera (after Nicole Brossard ) for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, percussion, harpsichord, tape and light, 1973
• Ishuma (based on Inuit texts and Paul Chamberland ) for soprano, trombone, violin, double bass, three percussionists, Ondes Martenot, Hammond organ and synthesizer, 1974
• Genesis , wind quintet, 1975
• Miroirs for harpsichord and tape, 1975
• Moments for soprano, flute, viola and cello, 1977
• Regards for three wind instruments, harp, piano, percussion, three strings and tape, 1978
• Mandala I for flute, oboe, cello, piano and percussion, 1980
• Mandala II for piano, 1980
• Intégration I for cello, 1980
• Intégration II , for violin, 1980
• Constellation I , 1980
• Composition I for horn, 1981
• Horizon I for flute, 1981
• Horizon II for oboe, 1981
• Gésode I for soprano and piano, 1981
• Gésode II for tenor and piano, 1981
• Étreinte for four Ondes Martenot, 1983
• Comment Wang-Fö fut sauvé , music for a puppet show, 1983
• Transit , musical theater, 1984

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