Marcelle Deschênes

Marcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price (b. 2 March 1939) is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer.

Life

Marcelle Price was born near Rimouski, Quebec. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Montreal, studying from 1963-67 with Jean Papineau-Couture and Serge Garant. She continued her education in France with François Bayle, Henri Chiarucci, and Guy Reibel of the Groupe de Recherches musicales de Paris. She also studied audio-visual techniques at the Pierre Schaeffer's Conservatoire and analysis at the École César-Franck with Olivier Alain. At the University of Pairs, she studied with Daniel Charles, Claude Laloum and Jean-Étienne Marie.^[1]

After completing her studies, Deschênes returned to Canada in 1971 and took a teaching and research position at the electronic music studio of Laval University, where she helped organize a sound library. in 1979 she founded the electroacoustic studio Bruit Blanc, and in 1980 she took a position as professor at the University of Montreal.^[2]

Honors and awards

• First prize for mixed-media music at the sixth Concours international de musique électroacoustique in Bourges in 1978
• Gold medal at the Multi-Images international competition in Munich (1989)^[3]

Works

Deschênes composes multimedia works and film soundtracks. Selected works include:

• Amertube film soundtrack (1973)
• Le Phasé mou film soundtrack (1973)
• Le Port de Montréal film soundtrack (1975)
• 1 1/2 (1966)
• Voz (cantate mitrailleuse) (1968)
• 7+7+7+7 ou aussi progressions sur la circonférence du jaune au rouge par l'orange ou du rouge au bleu par le violet, ou même embrassant le pourtour total (1968)
• Talilalilalilalarequiem (1970)
• Moll, Opéra-Lilliput pour six roches molles (1976)
• OPÉRAaaaAH! (1983)
• L'Écran humain, (1983)
• deUSirae (1985)
• Lux (1985) in collaboration with Renée Bourassa
• Big Bang (1987)
• Noël réinventé (1988)
• Ludi (1990), opera-theatre work with Renée Bourassa

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Big Bang II (1990)
• Halogènes (1991)

References

1. ^ Proctor, George Alfred (1980). Canadian music of the twentieth century. 
2. ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. 
3. ^ Daunais, Paule; Plouffe, Hélène. "Deschênes, Marcelle". http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000940. Retrieved 6 December 2010. 

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Name	Deschenes, Marcelle
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Short description	Composer
Date of birth	2 March 1939
Place of birth	[Rimouski]], Quebec, Canada
Date of death
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