Valérie Soudères (19 September 1914 – 15 March 1995) née Briggs, also known in her early days as Valerie Hamilton, was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
[1] Back in France, she teaches the piano and sight-reading at the Conservatoire de Paris[3] with in particular, Isabelle Henriot and Bill Finegan as students.
3, on the occasion of its premiere in France, with the Pasdeloup Orchestra, at the salle Gaveau under the direction of Pierre Dervaux.
This opera was premiered on 13 June 1958 by the orchestre de la RTF under the direction of Pierre Dervaux.
[1] In 1948, she was awarded the Suzanne Mesureur prize by the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique and made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1965.