Composers

Ann Southam

Ann Southam

(4.02.1937 - 25.11.2010)
Country:Canada
Period:Contemporary classical music
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Biography

 Ann Southam, CM (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian electronic and classical music composer and music teacher. She is famous for her minimalist, iterative, and lyrical style, for her long-term collaborations with dance choreographers and performers, for her large body of work, and for "blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field."[1]

She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1937, and lived most of her life in Toronto, Ontario. She died, aged 73, on 25 November 2010.[2]

She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010.

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Composers

Ann Southam

Ann Southam
4.02.1937 - 25.11.2010
Country:Canada
Period:Contemporary classical music

Biography

 Ann Southam, CM (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian electronic and classical music composer and music teacher. She is famous for her minimalist, iterative, and lyrical style, for her long-term collaborations with dance choreographers and performers, for her large body of work, and for "blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field."[1]

She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1937, and lived most of her life in Toronto, Ontario. She died, aged 73, on 25 November 2010.[2]

She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010.

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