Nicole Rodrigue

Nicole Rodrigue (29 September 1943 – 16 April 2010) was a Canadian composer and film editor{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y40HAQAAIAAJ&q=nicole+rodrigue+composer |title=New Canadian Film |date=1973 |publisher=Cinémathèque québécoise. |language=en}} who was the first woman to earn a composition degree from McGill University.{{Cite web |title=Nicole Rodrigue - Composer - Musica International |url=https://www.musicanet.org/bdd/en/composer/18450-rodrigue--nicole |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.musicanet.org}}{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-0-0 |pages=591, 1124 |language=en}}

Life and career

Rodrigue was born in Montreal, Canada, the youngest of 11 children.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Nicole Rodrigue |url=https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nicole+rodrigue |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.youtube.com}} She began studying piano when she was 10 years old, and went on to earn degrees from the Ecole de Musique Vincent d'Indy and the University of Montreal. In 1974, she became the first woman to earn a master's degree in composition from McGill University. Her teachers included Istvan Anhalt, Francoise Aubut-Pratte, J. P. Couture, Alcides Lanza, Bruce Mather, Paul Pedersen, A. Prevost, and Serge Garant. Rodrigue participated in the Jeunesses Musicales International in Belgium and also studied in Darmstadt, Germany, where her composition Nasca premiered.{{Cite web |title=Nicole Rodrigue |url=http://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?component=AAIL&record=b57202c2-900d-4348-8cd3-a94578b23de7 |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Canadian Music Centre {{!}} SydneyEnterprise (Final) |language=en}}

Rodrigue was interested in electronic music and experimented with Music Mouse, software created by the American composer Laurie Spiegel. In 1973, she edited the short film Quoi de Neuf a Pie IX? From 1970 to 1998, Rodrigue taught at the School Commission of Montreal and wrote a pedagogical guide.

Rodrigue's compositions were recorded by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC QC 1274){{Cite web |last=Halen |first=Edit Van |date=2015-08-10 |title=WAVE EDGE: CAPAC - Musical Portrait series |url=https://wave-edge.blogspot.com/2015/08/capac-musical-portrait-series.html |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=WAVE EDGE}} and printed by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC). Her papers are archived at the University of Calgary{{Cite web |title=Rodrigue, Nicole - Archives |url=https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/rodrigue-nicole |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=searcharchives.ucalgary.ca}} and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.{{Cite web |title=Advitam - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |url=https://advitam.banq.qc.ca/notice/678955 |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=advitam.banq.qc.ca}} Her works include:

Chamber

Desastre

Fission (two percussion)

Le Moqueur (violin, cello, piano)

Le Moqueur Polyglotte (flute)

Modules (harp, double bass, seven tam tams)

Nasca (clarinet, cello, piano and vibraphone)

Soufriere (two flutes and two piccolos){{Cite book |last=Boenke |first=H. Alais |title=Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog |date=1988-10-19 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-36831-8 |pages=103 |language=en}}