Renée Morisset
Renée Morisset , OC , CQ (born June 13, 1928 in Saint-Damien-de-Bellechasse , Québec , † May 3, 2009 in Québec) was a Canadian pianist and music teacher.
Morisset had piano lessons from 1932–33 at the Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours convent . From 1937 to 1944 she was a student of Henri Gagnon in Québec. She then studied piano with Germaine Malépart , chamber music with Louis Bailly and John Newmark and music theory with Georges-Émile Tanguay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec .
She gave concerts and radio recordings and appeared as a soloist with the Orchester Symphonique de Québec in 1950 . In the same year she married the pianist Victor Bouchard , with whom she went to Paris for further studies and received international recognition as a piano duo in the following years. The couple performed in Canada, Belgium, Holland, Italy and the USA and received a. a. the Prix Calixa-Laballée (1964), the Prix Pierre-Mercure (1966) and the Prix de la Fondation of the Québec Symphony Orchestra (2004). Composers such as Clermont Pépin , Roger Matton and Jacques Hétu wrote works for her. Both became members of the Order of Canada in 1981 and officers in 1985 .
From 1955 to 1966 Morisset taught at the Orford Arts Center of the Jeunesses musicales du Canada . She worked as a jury member a. a. at the Montreal International Music Competition 1968, the International Bach Piano Competition 1985 and the Canada Council .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morisset, Renee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Damien-de-Bellechasse , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2009 |
| Place of death | Quebec |