Nicole Rodrigue (29 September 1943 – 16 April 2010) was a Canadian composer and film editor[1] who was the first woman to earn a composition degree from McGill University.
[4] She began studying piano when she was 10 years old, and went on to earn degrees from the Ecole de Musique Vincent d'Indy and the University of Montreal.
Her teachers included Istvan Anhalt, Francoise Aubut-Pratte, J. P. Couture, Alcides Lanza, Bruce Mather, Paul Pedersen, A. Prevost, and Serge Garant.
[3] Rodrigue participated in the Jeunesses Musicales International in Belgium and also studied in Darmstadt, Germany, where her composition Nasca premiered.
[5] Rodrigue's compositions were recorded by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada (CAPAC QC 1274)[3][6] and printed by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC).