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Roger Filiatrault. Baritone, teacher, choir conductor, b Montreal 5 Feb 1905, d Lesage, near Montreal, 27 Apr 1973; premier prix voice (Brussels Royal Cons) 1928. He studied piano and violin before taking voice lessons from Salvator Issaurel.

Oliver (Plunkett) Gannon. Guitarist, composer, b Dublin 23 Mar 1943; B MUS (Berklee) 1969. His father, Joe, played jazz piano in Dublin and, after taking the family to Canada in 1957, in Winnipeg.

(Ida Joséphine Phoebe) Eva Gauthier. Mezzo-soprano, teacher, b Ottawa 20 Sep 1885, d New York 26 Dec 1958. She studied piano and harmony with J. Edgar Birch before taking voice lessons with Frank Buels at the age of 13.

Benoît (Fidèle) (b Benjamin) Poirier (b Perry). Organist, composer, b Tignish, PEI, 17 Oct 1882, d Laval, near Montreal, 7 Oct 1965; BA (St-Joseph, NB) 1902, honorary MA (St-Joseph, NB) 1928.

Polson, Arthur (Ludwig). Violinist, composer, conductor, b Vancouver 2 Mar 1934, d there 25 Feb 2003. His father wrote pop songs, including 'The Hope Mountain Waltz' recorded by US bandleader Bob Crosby.

Lyn Vernon. Mezzo-soprano (later dramatic soprano), conductor, teacher, b New Westminster, BC, 19 Aug 1944. She studied piano as a child, then 1962-3 and 1964-6 at the University of British Columbia with Barbara Custance, Kathryn Bailey, and Marshall Sumner. Her voice teacher there was Donald Brown.

Pierre Gautier. Organist, teacher, composer, b Argenton-sur-Creuse, Berry, France, 29 Oct 1863, d Eastview (now Vanier), near Ottawa, 15 Dec 1940. He studied piano, organ, and harmony in his native city, then in Paris at the Institut national des jeunes aveugles.

Jean-Pierre Vetter. Pianist, teacher, b Vevey, Switzerland, 18 Nov 1927, naturalized Canadian 1961, d Montreal 14 May 1987; diplôme de virtuosité (Lausanne Cons) 1948. After his studies at the Lausanne Cons he took further training 1949-50 in Florence with Rio Nardi and in Siena with Guido Agosti.

Gordon (Charles James) Fleming. Organist, pianist, composer, arranger, b Goderich, Ont, 27 May 1903, d Windsor, Ont, 30 Apr 1959. Much of his early life was spent in Galt (renamed Cambridge), Ont.

Le Petit Ensemble vocal. Vocal quartet founded in 1956 and directed by George Little with members of his Montreal Bach Choir to present vocal chamber music from the Middle Ages to our time.

William Henry Warren. Organist, teacher, composer, b USA, d Montreal 19 Dec 1856. He emigrated to Toronto, becoming organist at St James' Cathedral in 1834.

Harry (Marshall) Field.

Jacques (b Gerard) Gérard (b Poisson). Tenor, b Arthabaska, near Drummondville, Que, 26 Jul 1899, d Old Orchard, Me, 12 Aug 1957. He studied with Salvatore Issaurel in Montreal and with Désiré Demest in Brussels. After his debut in Liège in 1927 as Faust, he appeared in several other Belgian cities.

Edwin Gledhill. Composer, teacher, b London 3 Jul 1830, d California Feb 1919. He arrived in New York in 1851 with his father, Robert L. Gledhill, who under the name Signor Salvi appeared as tenor soloist on Jenny Lind's North-American tours of 1851-2.

Jan (Vladimir) Matejcek. Administrator, music editor, critic, b Hamburg, of Czech parents, 29 Dec 1926, naturalized Canadian 1974; DR IURIS (Charles U, Prague) 1951. He studied composition, piano, and musicology in Prague.

Pietro Romano. French hornist, b Naples 30 May 1907, naturalized Canadian 1932, d Montreal 13 Nov 1966. He started to play the french horn at five. Arriving in Canada at 13, he began playing at the Imperial Theatre in an orchestra led by his half-brother, Giulio.

In 1986 Canadians of German descent formed the fifth largest ethnic group in Canada - after French, English, Scottish, and Irish. In 1986 the figure was approximately 900,000 of German origin and an estimated 1,700,000 with German-speaking ancestors from various parts of Europe.

Jean-Paul Major. Flutist, teacher, born Ville St-Laurent (Montréal) 28 Apr 1929; died at Montréal, 11 Apr 2011. First Prize winner for flute by the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMM), 1950. Major played in a brass band before entering the CMM in 1944.

Marina Piccinini. Flutist, b Madison, Wisc, 10 Mar 1963; B MUS (Juilliard) 1985, M MUS (Juilliard) 1985. She grew up in St John's, Nfld, and then studied at the University of Toronto with Jeanne Baxtresser for two years. In 1980 she studied in Zurich with Günther Rumpel for 6 months.

(Jean-Baptiste) Stanislas Drapeau. Printer, publisher, journalist, b St-Roch (later a part of Quebec City), 28 Jul 1821, d Pointe-Gatineau, Que, 21 Feb 1893. He was a typographer 1837-8 in the printing shop of Le Fantasque founded by Napoléon Aubin.