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Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux

Country: Canada

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (1938-1985) was a Quebec composer and teacher born in Notre-Dame-de-la-Doré, near Roberval. She studied in Montreal with Gilles Tremblay and Clermont Pépin, then in Paris with the Groupe de recherches musicales and Pierre Schaeffer. Her music joins acoustic instruments, percussion, voice and electronics, and in 1967 she won the Prix d'Europe for composition. Coulombe Saint-Marcoux won the Prix d'Europe with the orchestral piece Modulaire.

Ishuma / Chant D'Amours (LP)
1976 LP on Radio Canada's "Transcription" contemporary and electronic music series performed by the Ensemble De La Société De Musique Contemporaine De Québec. Never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Impulsion
The tape works of Québec composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, made between 1970 and 1981 at the GRM in Paris, in Bourges and at Simon Fraser University, from the vocal vertigo of Arksalalartôq to the eighteen-minute Constellation I.