Clermont Pip
See also: Pip
Clermont Pépin is a Compositeur Québécois born with Saint-Georges de Beauce the May 15th 1926 and is deceased the September 2nd 2006.
Biography
Born with Saint-Georges-with-Beauce, in 1926, it studied with the Curtis Institute off Music of Philadelphia of 1941 to 1944. Member elect of a grant given by the government of Quebec, it left to study the music in Paris. Of return to Quebec, he taught with the Conservatoire music and of dramatic art of Quebec in Montreal of 1955 to 1964 or he will have like pupils of famous musicians such François Dompierre, André Cagnon, André Prévost and Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux.Pip will be mainly known for its symphonies ( Quasars, the mass on the world, Implosion ) and for its ballets the Bird-phoenix and the Carry-dream . Decorated with the Order of Canada in 1981 then of that of Quebec in 1990, he was the founder, in 1985, of the Contest of Music Clermont-Pip, in order to encourage the development of artists of the area of Beauce.
He died of a cancer in 2006.
Honors
- 1949 - Price of Europe
- 1952 - Price of the Centenary of the University Laval
- 1955 - International prize of composition of Radio-Luxembourg
- 1970 - Price Calixa-Lavallée
- 1981 - Officer of the Order of Canada
- 1990 - Bucket merenti of patria
- 1990 - Officer of the National order of Quebec
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