Alice Vinette

{{Short description|Canadian composer, organist and nun (1894–1989)}}

Alice Vinette (24 April 1894 - 17 March 1989) was a Canadian composer, organist,{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Susan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725|title=Women composers : a handbook|date=1978|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-1138-3|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=3844725}} and nun.{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}} Her religious name was Sister Marie-Jocelyne.{{Cite book|last=Drone|first=Jeanette Marie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62858081|title=Musical AKAs : assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music|date=2007|isbn=978-0-8108-5739-1|location=Lanham, Maryland|oclc=62858081}}

Vinette was born in Saint-Urbain, Quebec. She studied piano with Romain Octave Pelletier I, organ with Raoul Paquet, composition with Rodolphe Mathieu and Auguste Descarries, and singing with Fleurette Contant. Vinette joined the Sisters of Saint Anne in 1917 as Sister Marie-Jocelyne, a contemporary of composer Lydia Boucher (Sister Marie-Therese). She taught theory, voice, piano, and organ at the school run by the Sisters of Saint Anne.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|date=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}

Vinette's compositions include: