Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé

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Marie Berthe Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé (born December 12, 1907 in Montreal , † March 15, 2007 in Montreal) was a Canadian pianist, music teacher and singer (soprano).

Beauchamp studied piano with Alice McCaughan from 1915 to 1922 , then with Romain-Octave Pelletier and until 1932 with Arthur Letondal and Romain Pelletier , as well as singing with Albert Roberval , theater with Jeanne Maubourg and harmony with Henri Miro and Rodolphe Mathieu .

As a singer, she appeared in productions of the Société canadienne d'opérette . As a pianist, she won prizes from the Canadian Institute of Music in 1930, 1931 and 1932 and a Prix ​​de Paris in 1933 . In Paris in 1933/34 she completed her piano training with Victor Staub , Edith Lang-Laszlo and José Estrada .

On her return to Canada, she appeared as a soloist with the radio orchestras of the CBC and CKAC and played works by Canadian composers such as François Brassard , Alexis Contant , Rodolphe Mathieu , Henri Miro and Georges Savaria , some of which were dedicated to her. In 1945 she was a soloist in a performance of César Franck's Les Djinns with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra . Adrienne Roy-Vilandré accompanied her on the recording of the Popular Songs of French Canada . For many years, Beauchamp taught at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec .

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