Catherine Major
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Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2011 album Le désert des solitudes, which was a Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2012.
Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album Par-dessus bord, in 2004 and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins. In 2007 she composed music for Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's film The Ring (Le Ring), for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Original Music at the 10th Jutra Awards. The following year she released her second album, Rose sang.
Le désert des solitudes was released in 2011. In 2012, she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on Micheline Lanctôt's film For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu).
Her fourth album, La maison du monde, followed in 2015.
In 2019, she participated alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for Alzheimer's disease research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced. Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album. The album, Carte mère, was released in 2020.
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- ekki hugsa - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Spring 3 - 2012 - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variatio 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- 4 Short Pieces, H. 104: No. 2, Spring Song (Arr. Parkin for Cello and String Quartet) - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 (Trans. for flute and piano) - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Dappled Light - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Gli uccelli, P. 154: Il cucù - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Rondo in D Major, K. 485 - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Prelude and Fugue in C (WTK, Book I, No. 1), BWV 846: Prelude - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Albertine en cinq temps - L'opéra: Prologue - La lune - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 3 in G Major. Vivace - Recorded 1974 - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Trumpet Concerto in E flat, H.VIIe No.1: 3. Allegro - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Trois Morceaux: II. D’un jardin clair - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Il Était Une Fois - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Written on the Sky - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Sleeping Lotus - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Les Soirée de Nazelles: II. Le cœur sur la main : Modéré - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American": II. Lento - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- String Quartet, M. 35: II. Assez vif, très rythmé - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Suite bergamasque, L. 75: IV. Passepied - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: XXXII. Aria da capo - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: V. Presto - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Seven Days Walking / Day 1: Golden Butterflies - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331: III. Alla Turca (Allegretto) - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Quatuor No. 1 en fa majeur, Op. 18 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Elégie in C Minor, Op. 24 (Arr. Parkin for Cello Ensemble) - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: VIII. La fille aux cheveux de lin (Arr. Garrett / van der Heijden for Violin, Flute and Orchestra) - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
- Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: II. Waltz. Moderato - Fall Study Classical - Catherine Major
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