Renée Morisset

Renée Morisset, OC, CQ ( born June 13, 1928 in Saint- Damien -de- Bellechasse, Québec, Québec † 3 May 2009 ) was a Canadian pianist and music teacher.

Morisset 1932-33 had piano lessons at the convent of Notre- Dame-du- Perpetual - Secours. From 1937 to 1944 she was a student of Henri Gagnon in Quebec. After that, she studied piano with Germaine Malépart, chamber music with Louis Bailly and John Newmark and music theory with Georges -Émile Tanguay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.

She gave concerts and played radio recordings and appeared in 1950 as a soloist with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. In the same year she married the pianist Victor Bouchard, with whom she went to Paris for further studies and got international recognition as a piano duo in the following years. The couple appeared in Canada, Belgium, Holland, Italy and the U.S. and received, among other things the Prix Calixa - Laballée (1964 ), the Prix Pierre- Mercure ( 1966) and the Prix de la Fondation des Quebec Symphony Orchestra ( 2004). Composers such as Clermont Pépin, Roger Matton and Jacques Hétu have written works for them. Both in 1981 and 1985, Member Officer of the Order of Canada.

From 1955 to 1966 taught at the Orford Arts Centre Morisset the Jeunesse Musicales du Canada. She participated as a jury member, inter alia, at the Montreal International Music Competition in 1968, the International Bach Piano Competition in 1985 and the Canada Council.