Ginette Bellavance

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Ginette Bellavance (born June 30, 1946 in Lévis ) is a Canadian composer, singer and actress.

Ginette Bellavance studied composition with Serge Garant at the University of Montreal . She taught electroacoustics and incidental music at the Université du Québec à Montréal and from 1969 to 1974 she directed the experimental music group YUL , for which she also composed. In the early 1970s she composed a number of stage music for performances at the Théâtre populaire du Québec , the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and the Nouvelle compagnie théâtrale .

From 1974 to 1988 she worked on various radio and television productions for the CBC and composed the music for several films. In 1980 she appeared as a singer in the premiere of Walter Boudreaus composition Coffre I on. Since the early 1980s she has produced shows for the French television program of the CBC in which she appeared as a singer and actress. She also recorded several LPs.

Works

  • Match en coordonnées for two percussionists, two guitars and tape, 1971
  • Incidental music for Tirso de Molina's Le Timide au palais , 1971
  • Incidental music for Molières Don Juan , 1972
  • Incidental music for Marcel Godin's Julien, Julien , 1973
  • Incidental music for Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac , 1974
  • Incidental music for Luc Durand's Le Mode d'emploi , 1979
  • Étude I and II for guitar, 1980
  • Soundtrack for Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography , 1981
  • Soundtrack for Le Futur Interieur , 1984
  • Soundtrack for Le Sourd dans la ville , 1987
  • Film music for La Peau et les os , 1988

Discography

  • Bellavance , LP, 1980
  • Conte du pays de Zizanie , LP, 1982