Jean Joseph Clermont Pépin

Canada
Canada
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesLondon 1948
Year of Birth1926

Biography

Clermont Pépin was a Canadian composer, pianist and music educator. He studied with influential Canadian composers Claude Champagne (Montréal) and Arnold Walter (Toronto), and at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from 1941-44. In 1949 he won the Prix d'Europe as a pianist and lived in Paris until 1955, where he took piano and composition lessons. In 1955-73 and 1977-87 Pépin taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music, but in the interim he worked for the Ministry of Culture in Canada.

Elements of jazz were noticeable in his ballets and theatre music from the 1950s. In 1972 Pépin wrote Monade III, a bravura piece for violin and orchestra for the Montréal International Music Competition. In 1983, at the 50th anniversary of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, they performed his symphony Implosion.

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