Anita Sleeman

Anita Sleeman (née Andrés) (December 12, 1930 – October 18, 2011) was a Canadian contemporary classical music composer.

Born Anita Andrés December 12, 1930, in San Jose, California,[1] to Alejandro Andrés from Salamanca, Spain, and Anita Dolgoff from Stavropol, Russia,[2] Sleeman began taking piano lessons at age three and took up trumpet and French horn at school[3][4] in San Francisco.

[3] Throughout her life she played the French horn in a variety of stage and concert bands and performed as a keyboardist in jazz ensembles.

Sleeman resumed music studies at the University of British Columbia, earning a BMus in 1971, and MMus (on a graduate fellowship) in 1974.

[1][2] Critic Ken Winters of The Globe and Mail praised Sleeman's work Cantigas as "remarkable", continuing, "It's as resourceful as Bartók in exploiting string techniques and sound potentials, and just as vigorous musically.