Marie-Claire Saindon

Marie-Claire Saindon is a Franco-Ontarian choral composer with a penchant for vivid imagery and a great affinity for setting text. Based in Montreal as composer-in-residence for Choeur Adleisia, she runs creative choral/vocal composition workshops, scores films, and teaches Irish fiddling. Saindon regularly composes for choirs and vocal ensembles in Canada and overseas. Her commissioners and collaborators include l’Orchestre Métropolitain, Elektra Women’s Choir, Chor Leoni, Voces Boreales, Pro Coro Canada, l’Alliance des chorales du Québec, and the American Choral Directors’ Association (ACDA) Women’s/SSA Choir Consortium. Recipient of multiple composition prizes, such as the SOCAN Young Composers' National Awards in the vocal category, 2013, and the BC CMC Barbara Pentland Award for an Exceptional Composition, 2018, her choral works are published with Hal Leonard, Boosey & Hawkes, Cypress Choral Music, Hal Leonard Choral, Earthsongs Choral Music, and Alliance Music Publications. Her music can also be found in audio-visual projects such as films and museum exhibitions by director/curator Viveka Melki, including the documentary Carricks : dans le sillage des irlandais (2017), available through Radio-Canada. Saindon holds a BMus: Composition from the Schulich School of Music (McGill, 2007) and an MMus: Composition - Film and Multimedia music from Université de Montréal (2010). – www.marieclairesaindon.com