Ann Southam

Ann Southam, (4 February 1937 – 25 November 2010) was a Canadian composer and music teacher. She is known for her minimalist-influenced style, her work in electronic music, her long-term collaborations with performers and choreographers, her large body of work, and, according to The Globe and Mail, “blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field”. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010. Biography Southam was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 4 February 1937. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Canadian newspaper baron William Southam, and benefited from the inherited wealth of the family business. In 1966, she began teaching electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatory. In 1966, she was introduced to Patricia Beatty, a Canadian choreographer who had just returned from studying modern dance in New York. Shortly afterward, Southam began working on a new score for Beatty’s adaptation of Macbeth and the two became friends. Music Southam’s early works are lyrical atonal pieces written in a Romantic style, and lyricism remained an important element of her later electronic work. She also worked with the twelve-tone technique. (1981) is cons