# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/serge-garant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:56.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/serge-garant"
name: "Serge Garant"
slug: "serge-garant"
description: "Albert Antonio Serge Garant, was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean Papineau-Couture, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson, he co-founded the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. The Prix Serge-Garant award was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan. Among his notable pupils were Walter Boudreau, Marcelle Deschênes, Denis Gougeon, Richard Grégoire, Anne Lauber, Michel Longtin, Nicole Rodrigue, and Myke Roy."
tagline: "Canadian composer (1929–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Serge_Garant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-09-22"
deathDate: "1986-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             2.021276595744681
  historical:           8.804068000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304836/"
    handle:    "nm0304836"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سيرج جارانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Garant"
    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Garant"
    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Garant"
    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Garant"
    title: "Serge Garant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6"
    title: "Гаран, Серж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2472978"
    title: "Serge Garant"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump