Denise Narcisse-Mair

Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair (19 January 1940 – 8 June 2010) was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer.

Narcisse-Mair was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 19, 1940. Her mother was a pianist and her aunt was a composer and choral conductor at a convent in Kingston, where she spent her first 13 years learning music, languages, and faith.

In 1957, Narcisse-Mair was awarded a scholarship to study piano performance at the Royal College of Music in London, England, where she also performed in the choir and played in the first violin section of the orchestra. She later received a master's in education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. From 1973 to 1975, she served as the choir-mistrees at St. Mary's Cathedral in Kingston. She served as the first and only female conductor of the Bach-Elgar Choir for its 1980–1981 season. She also taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music and McMaster University, and adjudicated Kiwanis Music Festivals.

Narcisse-Mair died on June 8, 2010, aged 70, in Carlisle, Ontario, Canada.