Nicole Carignan

Nicole Carignan (born 1952) is a Canadian composer and music educator living in Quebec. She is a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Early life and education Carignan was born in Plessisville and earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal.

Career Carignan has written articles about music education, and has led seminars and workshops on composition in South Africa, Europe, Russia and the United States. She is a researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Université de Montréal, the Department of Education of UQAM and at Cleveland State University. She has also taught at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa.

She has earned honourable mentions from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for two of her projects: Intercultural encounters between immigrants learning French and pre-service teachers at UQAM and the development of a teacher's guide for the DVD A lesson in discrimination

Selected compositions "Quiebra" (1994) "Time, Space and Context: The Last 23 Days"