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OTTAWA, April 5, 2011  —  The University of Ottawa is proud to recognize and honour Ann Southam, one of Canada’s most prominent composers of new music. In celebration of her incomparable talent and her many achievements, the University has given Ms. Southam’s name to a room at the Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory.

Ann Southam was a noted composer, an influential teacher, an advocate of the arts and a great philanthropist. Famous for her electroacoustic music, she composed for several modern dance companies and choreographers, including the Toronto Dance Theatre, Dancemakers, Danny Grossman, Patricia Beatty and Christopher House. She worked closely with pianists Eve Egoyan and Christina Petrowska-Quilico.

Ann Southam also had a strong interest in music education: she taught electroacoustic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and reached out to young people through her participation in “composer-in-the-classroom” programs for elementary and high school students and through her collaboration with the Studea Musica Summer Institute as guest composer.