École de musique Vincent-d'Indy
Encyclopedia
L'école de musique Vincent-d'Indy is a subsidized private music college
situated in Montreal
(Quebec
, Canada
) in the Outremont
district, that specializes in music education
.
The school also offers extracurricular courses in music to youth in primary and secondary school as well as to adults. It also maintains a resource of approximately 400 affiliated professors throughout Quebec.
The current Director General is Kathleen Caissy.
. In 1932, the foundations were made for the École supérieure de musique d’Outremont, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts at the Université de Montréal
.
.
The Vincent-d'Indy music school offered, up until 1978, a university program in music
.
Music College
Music Colleges were introduced in 2004 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in England. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, music. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Music Colleges will receive extra...
situated in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
(Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
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) in the Outremont
Outremont
Outremont may refer to:*Outremont, Quebec - a borough and former town in Montreal*Outremont - a Canadian federal electoral district*Outremont - a Quebec provincial electoral district...
district, that specializes in music education
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
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Programs
L'école Vincent-d'Indy offers programs that result in students receiving a Diploma of College Studies (often referred to as a DEC - a Diplôme d'études collégiales) in:- Music
- Music and Languages
- Music and Mathematics
- Music and Sciences and Nature
- Music and Human Sciences
- Music and Arts and Letters
The school also offers extracurricular courses in music to youth in primary and secondary school as well as to adults. It also maintains a resource of approximately 400 affiliated professors throughout Quebec.
The current Director General is Kathleen Caissy.
Early 20th century
The school has its origin of program of musical studies begun by Sister Marie-Stéphane (Hélène Côté) in the school of the Congregation of Sisters of the Saints Name of Jésus and Marie (also known as Collège Jésus-Marie) in the 1920s1920s
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. In 1932, the foundations were made for the École supérieure de musique d’Outremont, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts at the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
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Middle and late 20th Century
The school adopted its current name in 1951 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the French composer and pedagogue Vincent d'IndyVincent d'Indy
Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
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The Vincent-d'Indy music school offered, up until 1978, a university program in music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
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Notable faculty
- Jean-Marie BeaudetJean-Marie BeaudetJean-Marie Beaudet was a Canadian conductor, organist, pianist, radio producer, and music educator. He had a long career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, serving variously as a music producer, programing director, conductor, and administrator...
- Yvonne Duckett
- Yvonne Hubert
- Juliette Milette
- Léo-Pol MorinLéo-Pol MorinLéo-Pol Morin was a Canadian pianist, music critic, composer, and music educator. He composed under the name James Callihou, with his most well known works being Suite canadienne and Three Eskimos for piano. He also composed works based on Canadian and Inuit folklore/folk music and harmonized a...
- Frédéric PelletierFrédéric PelletierFrédéric Pelletier was a Canadian choir conductor, music educator, composer, music critic, journalist, civil servant, military officer, and physician. He was one of the principal music critics in Montreal during the first half of the 20th century, having worked in that capacity for every major...
Notable alumni
- Édith Boivin-Béluse
- Jocelyne BinetJocelyne BinetJocelyne Binet was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada.-Biography:...
- Colette BokyColette BokyColette Boky is a French-Canadian operatic soprano, particularly associated with lyric roles in the French, Italian, and German repertories.- Life and career :...
- Renée Claude
- Micheline Coulombe Saint-MarcouxMicheline Coulombe Saint-MarcouxMicheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux was a Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid 1980s...
- Isabelle DelormeIsabelle DelormeIsabelle Delorme was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. As a composer, her works are lyrical in nature and follow more traditional ideas of harmony as opposed to the avant-garde music that was in vogue in her day...
- Marc Durand
- EmmanuëlleEmmanuelleEmmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle...
- Daniel Hétu
- Christopher JacksonChristopher Jackson (keyboardist)Christopher Donald Jackson is a Canadian organist, harpsichordist, and choral conductor. A graduate of the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, he co-founded both the Société des Concerts d'orgue de Montréal and the Studio de musique ancienne de...
- Yves LapierreYves LapierreYves Lapierre is a Canadian composer, arranger, record producer, and singer. He began his career performing and recording with the folk vocal quartet Les Cailloux during the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s he was highly active as a composer, arranger, and record producer for a large number of...