armelle Bégin
studied ethnomusicology in Paris and obtained her doctorate from the Faculty of
Music of the Université de Montréal in 1979.
Curator of Ethnomusicology at the Canadian Museum of
Civilization since 1975, Dr. Bégin plays a major role in research on
traditional Canadian instrumental music. She is the author of many publications
and has been the curator of several exhibitions, the last one was
entitled Resonance, Musical Heritage of La Francophonie.
Her work and her gathering of sound recordings, now partly reproduced
on CDs, has provided the Canadian Museum of Civilization with one of
the major collections in this field in Canada.
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