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Boucher, Richard (-Gaudreault). Composer, b Montreal 8 Nov 1946, d Greenfield Park, near Montreal, 7 Jan 1987.

Denis Bédard. Organist, harpsichordist, composer, b Quebec City 13 Jan 1950; deuxième prix harmony (CMQ) 1966, premier prix counterpoint (CMQ) 1970, premier prix fugue (CMQ) 1971, premier prix organ (CMQ) 1972, premier prix harpsichord, premier prix chamber music (CMQ) 1973.

Juliette Bourassa-Trépanier (b Bourassa). Musicologist, teacher, b Saint-Raymond de Portneuf, near Quebec City, 22 Feb 1918. B.A. (Laval) 1938, B MUS (Laval) 1965, D MUS (Laval) 1972.

Brandon University Trio (formerly Halifax Trio). One of Canada's longest-lived chamber ensembles.

Jan Cherniavsky. Pianist, b Uman, Ukraine, 25 Jun 1892, naturalized Canadian 1922, d Vancouver 8 Jan 1989.

Chamber music performance. Early evidence of the cultivation of classical chamber music in Canada, mainly by amateur performers, both as an edifying leisure activity and in public concerts, dates from the period 1790-1820.

Eugène Chartier. Violinist, violist, conductor, teacher, b Montreal ca 1893, d Beaconsfield (Montreal) 1 Nov 1963. He studied violin with Oscar Martel and Alfred De Sève.

Gwendda (Dorothy Owen) Davies. Pianist, teacher, b Kettleburgh Rectory, Wickham Market, Suffolk, England, 5 Aug 1896, d Winnipeg 4 Jul 1988; LRAM 1912, ARCM 1912.

Warren Chiasson. Vibraphonist, percussionist, pianist, composer, b Cheticamp, Cape Breton, NS, 17 Apr 1934. Raised in Sydney, NS, he studied at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish and at the Maritime Conservatory of Music in Halifax.

Monique Desroches. Ethnomusicologist, teacher, b Grand-Mère,near Trois-Rivières, Que, 18 Mar 1948; B MUS (Sherbrooke) 1974, MA musicology (Montreal) 1977, PH D musicology (Montreal) 1987.

Mary Bothwell. Soprano, painter, b Hickson, near Woodstock, Ont, 28 Nov ca 1900, d Switzerland, mid-1970s. At the Canadian Academy of Music, Toronto, she studied singing with Otto Morando and piano with Peter C. Kennedy.

Tim (Timothy Wesley John) Brady. Composer, guitarist, b Montreal 11 Jul 1956; BFA (Concordia) 1978, M MUS jazz performance and composition (New England Conservatory) 1980.

Gordie (Gordon Edward) Brandt. Guitarist, b Regina 20 Jun 1924, d Saskatoon 31 Jul 1983. Raised in Saskatoon, Brandt began playing guitar at 12.

Robert Charlton Bayley. Educator, organist, choir conductor, composer, b Buctouche, near Moncton, NB, 4 Apr 1913; B SC (New Brunswick) 1934, LTCL 1935, L MUS (McGill) 1938, B ED (New Brunswick) 1970. His teachers included Sister M.

Lord, an orphan from Haiti, arrived in Canada at an early age, adopted by a Québec family. She began piano lessons at seven, studied violin as a teenager and graduated from Marcelle-Mallet private secondary school in Lévis.

Jacques Blanchet. Singer-songwriter, b Montreal 11 April 1931, d there 9 May 1981.

Jean (Robert Gérard Joseph) Bonhomme. Tenor, b Ottawa 14 Feb 1937, d there19 Jun l986; BA (Ottawa) 1957. He studied 1961-4 with Raoul Jobin privately and 1962-4 with George Lambert at the RCMT, winning the top vocal award in the 1964 CBC Talent Festival.

She appeared in Eric Till's television drama Glory Enough for All (1988) and continued her studies at the University of Toronto, the Williamstown Theatre in Williamstown, Mass., and the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City.

Jean (Bernard) Beaudet. Pianist, composer, b Ottawa 1 Jun 1950. His father, Rémi, was a professional violinist during the 1930s in Detroit. His mother, the mezzo-soprano Louise Bray, sang in Ottawa and Montreal. Beaudet began playing piano at 10.