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CURRENT PROJECTS
Sonata for viola & double bass (Elanée Ensemble, Hobart, Australia)
Sonata for clarinet & piano (Trevor Pittman, Windsor, Canada)
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EVENTS
SAT, AUG 21 & 28, 2010,
10:00PM — CBC RADIO 2, The Signal
Elegy for Strings & Clarinet Trio
— Rebroadcasts of performances by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by John Morris Russell, and David Palmer (piano), Trevor Pittman (clarinet) and Andrea Yun (cello) at the old Armouries as part of annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival.
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WHAT'S NEW |
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| Shostakovich Article to be Published |
JUNE 2010—My article "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" will be published in late 2010 (volume 6, number 2) in the UK journal twentieth-century music (Cambridge University Press). Last year, this paper won the George Proctor Prize at the Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
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John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship |
JUNE 2010—I've been awarded the 2010 John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. The award is given annually to a graduating masters or doctoral student in composition "who exhibits extraordinary creative talent".
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Two New Commissions |
MAY 2010—I have two new chamber music commissions lined up for the summer. The Elanée Ensemble of Hobart, Australia, has commissioned a sonata for viola and double bass, an unusual combination that will allow me to explore rich string sonorities. Closer to home, the clarinettist Trevor Pittman of Windsor, Ontario, has commissioned a sonata for clarinet and piano inspired by a mutual source of inspiration, the Canadian Rockies. Read more about the commissioners here.
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Listen to Elegy and Clarinet Trio on CBC Concerts on Demand |
APR. 2010—I was one of several featured composers at the 2010 Windsor Canadian Music Festival. Listen to the Windsor Symphony Orchestra premiere
of my Elegy for Strings conducted by John Morris Russell here and to my Clarinet Trio performed by David Palmer (piano), Trevor Pittman (clarinet) and Andrea Yun (cello) here.
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Song Added to RCM Voice Syllabus |
FEB. 2010—"What the Bullet Sang" from my song cycle Red
Moon & Other Songs of War will be added to the next edition of the Royal Conservatory of Music Voice Syllabus, to be released shortly. The complete cycle was published by Toronto-based Plangere in The Toronto Songbook.
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NAC Composers Program |
JAN. 2010—I've been selected as one of two alternate fellows for the NAC Composers Program to be held in Ottawa June 22-28, 2010, and led by Gary Kulesha with guest George Tsontakis. I'll be writing a work to be read by members of l’Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne.
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Defended Doctoral Thesis |
OCT. 28, 2009—I successfully defended my
doctoral thesis, Symphony "Maligne Range", at the
University of Toronto and have therefore completed all requirements for
the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA).
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