ÉDITH CANAT - FRANCE
BORN 26 MARCH Edith Canat de Chizy was born in Lyon and now based in Paris. She was the first female composer to be elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Edith studied art, archeology and philosophy at the Sorbonne University in parallel with music at the Paris Conservatoire with Maurice Ohana - an important influence - and Ivo Malec. She continued her studies at the Paris Conservatoire, where she obtained first prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, analysis, orchestration and composition. She also studied electroacoustics and worked with Guy Reibel at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Her instrument is the violin, and she has written extensively for string instruments.
After completing her studies, Canat de Chizy worked as a music educator, becoming the director of the Erik Satie conservatory in the 7th arrondissement of Paris until 2006 when she joined the staff of the Regional Conservatory of Paris (CRR de Paris) where she teaches composition. She was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2005.
Many of her works are state commissions, written for ensembles including the virtuoso vocal ensemble Musicatreize directed by Roland Hayrabedian, IRCAM, French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the national orchestras based in Paris and Lyon. Her music is published by Editions Henry Lemoine. She is co-author with François Porcile of a book on Maurice Ohana published by Fayard in 2005.
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MADELEINE DRING - UK
DIED 26 MARCH
A highly talented British composer, singer, stage actress and artist, Madeleine Dring studied at the Royal College of Music where her teachers included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, and Gordon Jacob.
Dring avoided large-scale works. Most of her output was in shorter forms; she wrote a good deal of solo piano, songs with piano, and some chamber music, including pieces for piano, piano duo, flute, oboe, harmonica, recorder, and clarinet many of which are pedagogical works. She completed a one-act opera, Cupboard Love (published in 2017) with her friend D.F. Aitken, and a dance drama entitled The Fair Queen of Wu, which was broadcast on BBC Television in 1951. She was commissioned to write music for "The Real Princess," a ballet and for several stage plays in London given from 1946 to 1971. She often collaborated with Felicity Gray, choreographer, and D.F. Aitken, librettist.
Simon William Lord, Dring's grandson, used some of her compositions for tracks on his solo 'Lord Skywave' album.
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Song of a Nightclub Proprietess by Madaleine Dring
Song of a Nightclub Proprietess by Madaleine Dring
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