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Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado. Singer, songwriter, b Victoria, BC, 2 Dec 1978. Furtado grew up in a working-class Portuguese household, and the sounds of her ethnic heritage had a strong influence on her even when she was listening to hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B, rock, Brazilian and Indian music.
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Fusion 5
Fusion 5. Chamber ensemble formed in the summer of 1980 by participants in the Advanced Studies in Music Winter Cycle program at the Banff SFA. Common interests in the performance of contemporary music led composer and pianist Robert J.
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G. Herald Keefer
G. Herald Keefer. Organist, organ builder, composer, b Vancouver 12 Apr 1919; honorary PH D (Somerset, England) 1985. He received his early choir training in Vancouver under Frederick Robinson.
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G. Roy Fenwick
G. (George) Roy Fenwick. Educator, writer, adjudicator, broadcaster, b Hamilton, Ont, 11 May 1889, d Ottawa 8 Jul 1970; LTCM 1911, B MUS (Toronto) 1927, D MUS (Montreal) 1950. His mother was Maggie Barr, a Scottish soprano.
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G. Welton Marquis
G. (George) Welton Marquis. Musicologist, administrator, b Walla Walla, Wash, 4 Mar 1916, d Ashland, Ore, 22 Feb 1985; MA (Whitman) 1942, PH D (Southern California) 1950.
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Gabor Szilasi
Long recognized as an exceptional documentary photographer for his distinctive views of Québec culture, his initial success followed the completion of 2 important series, Charlevoix (1970) and La Beauce (1973).
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Gabriel Arcand
Gabriel Arcand, actor (b at Montréal 4 Jun 1949). His family, originally from the village of Deschambault (Portneuf County), settled in Montréal in 1952.
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Gabriel Charpentier
Gabriel Charpentier, composer, poet, artistic adviser (b at Richmond, Qué 13 Sept 1925). He studied piano with Jean PAPINEAU-COUTURE, the Benedictine monks in Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, and in France with Norbert Dufourcq, Annette Dieudonné and Nadia Boulanger.
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Gabriel Charpentier
Gabriel (Moïse) Charpentier. Composer, poet, artistic consultant, teacher, b Richmond, near Sherbrooke, Que, 13 Sep 1925. He studied piano with Estelle Letarte in Richmond and J.
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Gabriel Cusson
Gabriel Cusson. Composer, teacher, b Roxton Pond, near Granby, Que, 2 Apr 1903, d Montreal 18 Apr 1972; B MUS (Montreal) 1924.
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Gabriel Kney
Gabriel Kney. Pipe organ builder, b Speyer, Germany, 21 Nov 1929. He started his apprenticeship in his hometown with Paul Sattel, then spent four years as assistant to Franz Nagel while studying church music at the Bischöfl Institute.
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Gabrielle Bernier
Gabrielle Bernier. Pianist, b Quebec City, November 1906. She studied piano with her father, Joseph-Arthur, and she continued her instrumental studies at Laval University. She gave a performance of a Mozart concerto with the Cercle philharmonique de Québec 25 Nov 1938.
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Gabrielle Lavigne
Gabrielle Lavigne. Mezzo-soprano, b Montreal 16 Mar 1940. She graduated from the Montreal School of Fine Arts in 1961 and pursued her musical studies 1961-9 at McGill University with Ria Lenssens (voice) and at the CMM with Dick Marzollo (repertoire) and Pierre Héral (stage skills).
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Gaby Haas
Gaby (Gabriel) Haas. Accordionist, composer, b Frantiskovy Lázne, Czechoslovakia, 7 Nov 1920, naturalized Canadian 1943, d Edmonton 22 Nov 1987. He moved to Saskatoon at 18 and began playing accordion at local dances and on CFQC radio.
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Gaelyne Gabora
Gaelyne Gabora (b Craig). Soprano, teacher, b Regina 1931, d White Rock, BC, 1 Feb 2001. She studied at Notre Dame Academy in Charlottetown, at the GSM, England, 1953-6, and graduated with honours from the Vienna Academy 1956-9.
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