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Jean Coulthard was born on 10 February, 1908 in Vancouver, Canada, is a Canadian composer. Discover Jean Coulthard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Occupation composer
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 10 February, 1908
Birthday 10 February
Birthplace Vancouver, Canada
Date of death 2000
Died Place North Vancouver, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1908

Jean Coulthard, (February 10, 1908 – March 9, 2000) was a Canadian composer and music educator.

She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer.

1924

From 1924-1928 she studied the piano with Jan Cherniavsky and music theory with Frederick Chubb.

1925

Beginning in 1925, Coulthard taught the piano privately in her mother's studio, and then as an independent teacher (1935–1947).

1927

The earliest compositions - such as Cradle Song (1927) and Threnody, (1935) - are small-scale vocal pieces, but under the influence and encouragement of Arthur Benjamin, she began to tackle orchestral works from the 1940s, establishing her reputation.

1928

A scholarship from the Vancouver Woman's Musical Club enabled her to pursue studies at the Royal College of Music in 1928-1929 where she was a pupil of Kathleen Long, R.O. Morris, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

1930

She studied in the 1930s and early 1940s with such composers as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schoenberg.

1940

They include the Canadian Fantasy (1940), the ballet Excursion (1940), Ballade (A Winter's Tale) (1940) and Song to the Sea.

From the mid-1940s Coulthard's style became more distinct and personal as she combined traditional forms with more extended harmonies, as in the Piano Sonata No 1 of 1947, her first work to be performed at Carnegie Hall.

The Violin Concerto is another example of this phase in her career.

1944

In 1944-1945, Coulthard worked for an entire academic year with Bernard Wagenaar of the Juilliard School, New York.

1947

In 1947 she joined the fledgling Department of Music in the Faculty of Arts of the University of British Columbia.

1948

In 1948 she met the British composer Elizabeth Poston (who was visiting Canada) and they began a long friendship and an extensive correspondence over the next 30 years.

Her work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Coulthard composed around 350 works throughout her long career in most traditional genres: an opera, four symphonies, a violin concerto, three string quartets and other chamber music, many instrumental sonatas, and songs and choral music to Canadian and other texts.

1949

The head of the department, Harry Adaskin, hired first Coulthard, and then (in 1949) Barbara Pentland, to teach theory and composition.

1950

Her works might be loosely termed "prematurely neo-Romantic", as the orthodox serialists who dominated academic musical life in North America during the 1950s and 1960s had little use for her.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Coulthard was the daughter of Jean Blake Robinson Coulthard, a prominent and influential music teacher in Vancouver.

Through her mother, she received her earliest musical training and was introduced at an early age to the work of French composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, both of whom were lifelong influences.

1952

Among her best-known pieces are: Prayer for Elizabeth for strings, written in 1952 for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and showing the influence of her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963); and the highly regarded Twelve Essays on a Cantabile Theme for string octet (1972).

1956

In 1956-7, she spent a year in Paris and Roquebrune, southern France, beginning an opera and completing several substantial chamber and vocal works.

A later sabbatical in London permitted Coulthard to work sustainably with Gordon Jacob, the British composer and orchestrator.

Coulthard's composition students included Canadian composers Chan Ka Nin, Michael Conway Baker, Sylvia Rickard, Ernst Schneider, Robert Knox, Jean Ethridge, Joan Hansen, David Gordon Duke, Lloyd Burritt, and Frederick Schipizky.

Her opera The Return of the Native was begun while she was in France in 1956, completed in 1979, and finally performed (though only in concert form) in September 1993.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has issued several recordings as transcription discs.

1959

It received its first performance in 1959 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, soloist by Thomas Rolston.

1960

Her style was predominantly romantic and impressionistic, though more experimental material, including electronics, bitonal and quartal harmonies, unusual scales, serialism, and tone clusters, became more common from the 1960s.

Elaine Keillor identifies in her style "both a lyricism expressed within a contemporary musical language and a brooding introspection often associated with the geography of Western Canada".

Her later work, after 1960, includes her most personal, abstract works such as the Third String Quartet

and the octet Twelve Essays on a Cantabile Theme.

1963

It was followed by the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963), which attracted mainstream attention and was later recorded by Robert Silverman with the same orchestra.

1967

Coulthard taught composition in the department, and later (from 1967) in the administratively distinct UBC School of Music (1967–1973).

1972

The Birds of Lansdowne (1972) incorporates recorded birdsong from Vancouver Island.

1978

In 1978, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

1994

In 1994, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.

2000

All three died within weeks of each other in 2000.

2002

The double CD Jean Coulthard: Canadian Composers Portraits, released by Centerdisks in 2002, includes an hour-long documentary alongside recordings of the Piano Concerto, Sketches From The Western Woods, Twelve Essays On A Cantabile Theme and shorter pieces.