Serge Garant

Garant worked between 1929 and 1986 across composer, radio personality, pianist, conductor and film score composer and 3 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 3 catalogued compositions, 3 published texts and 21 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Serge Garant studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Claude Champagne and Jocelyne Binet is recorded. Anne Lauber is recorded as having studied under Serge Garant. The field of work recorded is art music and composed musical work. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Calixa-Lavallée Award.

• Name — Serge Garant

Serge's interest in music came from his mother. He attended the Sacred Heart of Jesus Elementary School in Quebec City for three consecutive years (1936–1939). Because of the Great Depression, the Garant family moved from Quebec to L'Ancienne-Lorette in 1940, then to Verdun in 1941, and eventually settled in Sherbrooke in 1941. Continuing his schooling over these relocations, Serge Garant finished his ninth year at St. John the Baptist School in Sherbrooke in 1945. During his studies, Garant developed a particular interest in the clarinet. In 1946, Garant taught himself how to play the saxophone. Garant chose to dedicate himself to learning piano, where he was initially supervised by Sylvio Lacharité, one of the creators of the Symphony Orchestra of Sherbrooke. In the school orchestra Pierre Monteux, Garant took interest in writing music through his contact with Lacharité. In 1946, he wrote "Conte" (a version for strings, flute and clarinet), a work that he presented at the Youth Festival in 1949. Thereafter, Garant continued his piano studies in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert. In 1951, Garant went to Paris; Serge Garant followed the lessons of Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger and Messiaen.

Serge Garant participated in several radio programs as an expert, but his career as a host for CBC began in 1955 with Do-Mi-Sol and continued through Sur nos ondes (1957–1958) and Musique de notre siècle (1969–1985). Serge Garant identified himself as a "serial music" composer. He explored the musicals with new origins.

• 1971 – Canada Council of Music Medal • 1979 – Prix Calixa-Lavallée from the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Montréal • 1979 – Officer of the Order of Canada • 1980 – Prix Jules-Léger for new music • 1984 – The Canada Council for the Arts music prize • 1986 – Member of the Royal Society of Canada

• Concerts sur terre • Caprices • Nucléogame • Trois pièces pour quatuor à cordes • Musique pour la mort d'un poète • Ouranos

Serge Garant is recorded with the occupation film score composer. Recorded with the occupation radio personality. Recorded with the occupation music professor. Recorded as composer, radio personality, pianist, conductor and music professor.