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Place of Birth: Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
About Carmen Brouard
- Carmen Brouard (February 10, 1909 – December 11, 2005) was a Haitian-Canadian pianist, composer and music educator.
- She was considered the most accomplished Haitian composer of her time.The daughter of Raphaël Brouard, mayor of Port-au-Prince, and Cléomine Gaëtjens, who gave Brouard her first lessons on the piano, she was born in Port-au-Prince.
- Her brother was the Haitian poet Carl Brouard.
- At a young age, she moved to France with her family, where she continued her studies with the masters at the Conservatoire de Paris.
- She continued her studies on the piano with Justin Elie and his wife Lily Price.
- Brouard gave her first public performance at the café-chantant Parisiana in Paris.
- She also trained with Isidore Philipp.
- She gave her first concert at the Parisiana in October 1929.
- When she returned to Port-au-Prince, she began teaching music there.
- Her pupils included the composer and singer Édouard Woolley.She returned to France where she pursued further studies in music with Marguerite Long; through Long, she became friends with the composer Maurice Ravel.
- Brouard went back to Haiti during the 1940s, returning to France one more time around 1955.
- In 1956, she was admitted to the Faculté des lettres de Paris.Brouard moved to Quebec in 1977; she became a Canadian citizen in 1981.
- With Claude Dauphin, she founded the Société de Recherches et de Diffusion de la Musique Haïtienne.
- She died in Montreal at the age of 96.She married Jean Magloire; the couple later divorced.
- Their daughter Nadine became a writer.
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