Jeanne Landry (May 3, 1922 – August 2, 2011) was a Canadian composer, pianist and teacher who taught counterpoint and harmony at the Faculty of Music at Université Laval from 1951 to 1983.
She settled in Montreal in 1942 and studied with Arthur Letondal until 1944 before enrolling at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy to be taught by Jean Dansereau on the piano and by Claude Champagne in theoretical subjects.
[1] In June 1945, Landry won the Prix Archambault,[1][4] and graduated from the Vincent d'Indy with the Bachelor of Music degree with high honors and a diploma for Gregorian singing in November 1945.
[4] She was judged by a jury to have won the Prix d'Europe grant in a two-day competition held at Plateau Auditorium against nine others in June 1946 with an almost perfect score.
[1] She accompanied tenor Jean-Paul Jeannotte for a quarter of a century in concert, radio, and television,[1] performing in Austria, Canada, France, the Soviet Union and the United States.
Between 1957 and 1958, Landry toured for the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada with clarinetist Rafael Masella and accompanied other instrumentalists and singers such as Fernande Chiocchio, Joseph Rouleau and Jacques Simard.
[2] In September 1998, a tribute concert where some of Landry's works were performed by colleagues and friends was organised by Radio-Canada, the Faculty of Music at Université Laval and the Domaine Forget at Saint-Irénée, Quebec.