Ann Southam
| Ann Southam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 February 1937 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Died | 25 November 2010 (aged 73) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Composer |
Ann Southam, CM (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian composer and music teacher. She was born Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937, and lived most of her life in Toronto, Ontario. Her father, Kenneth Gordon Southam, was a great-grandson of newspaper baron William Southam.
She began composing at age 15 after attending a summer music camp at the Banff School (now known as The Banff Centre). She studied composition with Samuel Dolin at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She studied piano with Pierre Souvairan and electronic music with Gustav Ciamaga at the University of Toronto from 1960 to 1963. She began teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Music in 1966.
She was a founding member, first president (1980–88), life member (2002) and honorary president (2007) of the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010. She was also an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, which named its recording collection the Ann Southam Digital Audio Archive. She began a collaboration with the New Dance Group of Canada (later known as Toronto Dance Theatre) in 1967, where she became composer-in-residence in 1968. Southam was awarded with the Friends of Canadian Music Award in 2001. She died, aged 73, on 25 November 2010. In her will she left $14 million to the Canadian Women's Foundation.
Southam's early works are lyrical atonal pieces written in a Romantic style, and lyricism remained an important element of her later electronic scores. She also worked with 12-tone techniques.
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