Nicole Carignan

Nicole Carignan (born 1952) is a Canadian composer and music educator living in Quebec.^[1][2] She is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Early life and education

Carignan was born in Plessisville^[1] and earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal.^[3]

Career

Carignan has written articles about music education,^[4] and has led seminars and workshops on composition in South Africa, Europe, Russia and the United States. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Université de Montréal, the Department of Education of UQAM and at Cleveland State University.^[5]

Carignan taught music for the Commission scolaire de Laval and also taught composition at the Akademi Musik Indonesia in Yogyakarta, Java. She was a professor at Cleveland State University and is currently a professor in Intercultural Education at UQAM.^[5][6] She has also taught at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa.^[7]

Carignan worked on a project called Music Box of Productions Pandore Inc., a CD-ROM series which explores the world's musical culture. In 1997, the project received the Award of Excellence from the Alliance for Children and Television.^[5]

Carignan created a number of musical works, including pieces for solo instruments and orchestral works. Over fifty of her compositions have premiered in locations around the world.^[5]

She has earned honourable mentions from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for two of her projects: Intercultural encounters between immigrants learning French and pre-service teachers at UQAM and the development of a teacher's guide for the DVD A lesson in discrimination^[7]

Selected compositions

• "Quiebra" (1994)^[8]
• "Time, Space and Context: The Last 23 Days"^[9]