Jacques Hétu
Music Teacher, Composer
1938 – 2010
Who was Jacques Hétu?
Jacques Hétu OC OQ MSRC was a Canadian composer and music educator.
Hétu was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec; he began his professional training at the University of Ottawa where he was a pupil of Jules Martel from 1955 to 1956. In 1956 he entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and studied there for five years with Melvin Berman, Isabelle Delorme, Jean Papineau-Couture, Clermont Pépin, and Georges Savaria; he also studied at the Tanglewood Music Center during the summer of 1959 with Lukas Foss. In 1961 he won several important awards, including the first prize at the Quebec Music Festivals composition competition, a grant from the Canada Council, and the Prix d'Europe. The latter two awards enabled him to pursue studies in France at the École Normale de Musique de Paris from 1961 to 1963 with Henri Dutilleux and at the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen in 1962–1963.
Hétu joined the music faculty at Laval University in 1963, remaining there through 1977. He taught music composition at the University of Montreal in 1972–1973 and 1978–1979.
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1938
Trois-Rivières - Also known as
- Jacques Hetu
- Hétu, Jacques
- Jacques Hétu OC OQ MSRC
- Spouses
- Jeanne Desaulniers
( - 2010/02/09)
- Jeanne Desaulniers
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal
- University of Ottawa
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Died
- Feb 9, 2010
Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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