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CURRENT PROJECTS
—Work for 12 musicians
for NAC Composers Program, Ottawa, June 2010

Welcome to the website of Canadian composer Robert Rival.
Last updated on February 2, 2010.

UPCOMING EVENTS

FRI, FEB 5, 2010, 7:30PM — WINDSOR, ONTARIO
Elegy for Strings
— Premiere by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Morris Russell, at the old Armouries as part of 14th annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival. To be recorded by CBC Radio 2.

SAT, FEB 6, 2010, 7:30PM — WINDSOR, ONTARIO
Clarinet Trio
— Performance by David Palmer (piano), Trevor Pittman (clarinet) and Andrea Yun (cello) at the old Armouries as part of 14th annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival. To be recorded by CBC Radio 2.

WHAT'S NEW

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 for 12 musicians to be read by conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay and members of l’Orchestre de la francophonie canadienne.

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).

Teaching at the University of Windsor

SEP. 2009—This fall and winter I am teaching Basic Skills and Voice-Leading and Arranging as a sessional instructor at the University of Windsor School of Music.

Shostakovich Paper Wins George Proctor Prize

JUN. 2009—My paper "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" has been awarded the George Proctor Prize for best graduate student paper at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society.

Three Works Performed in March

MAR. 2009—On March 29, the Munich-based American tenor Gregory Wiest performed my song cycle Red Moon & Other Songs of War at a solo recital, his latest in a series of programs devoted to contemporary song in English. This was my German premiere. Then on March 31, at a concert at the Canadian Opera Company Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre (Toronto), the Gryphon Trio reprised my Piano Trio for the second time; and Lynn Kuo (violin) and Marianna Humetska (piano) interpreted my Schubert Fantasy, its third reading by as many duos in less than eight months.

Red Moon Song Cycle Published

JAN. 2009—I'm pleased to announce that my song cycle Red Moon & Other Songs of War has been published by Toronto-based Plangere in a volume of songs and song cycles by nine living Toronto composers. The Toronto Songbook can be ordered online directly from the publisher.

Shostakovich Paper Accepted by International UK Conference

JAN. 2009—My paper "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" has been accepted by the Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 to be held at Keele University, UK, from July 2-5, 2009.