Monique Gabus was born in Cambrai her father being Swiss and her mother French. She was equally the pupil of Magda Tagliaferro, Noël Gallon and Olivier Messiaen. Inspite of delicate health, she has composed symphonie works (in particular her cantata for choir and orchestra La Nuit Obscure on the poem by St. Jean de la Croix), choral works, melodies, vocalizations, instrumental pieces and six books of piano pieces for the young. In her art, she likes the expression of interior life and also the transposition of visual images in music (landscapes, pictures, photos) to which she is very sensitive.
