Home List of Works Audio Samples Biography Reviews Video Commissioning Writing Research Teaching Links CONTACT   Email: info@robertrival.com   Subscribe to quarterly newsletter:   Name: Email:   CURRENT PROJECTS   —book on music, gesture & rhetoric   LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC   Traces of a Silent Landscape Sonata "Muskoka"   CD RELEASES     Sonata "Muskoka" for clarinet & piano (Lake movement). Ananta Duo: "Global Tapestry" (2018). Purchase. Spotify.     Traces of a Silent Landscape. Windermere String Quartet: "Inner Landscapes" (2016). Purchase. iTunes. Spotify. Naxos Music Library.     Lullaby. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: "A Concert for New York" (2013). 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards nominee for Classical Recording of the Year. Purchase.

"...gentle textures and flowing themes occasionally yield surprising harmonic turns and briskly changing meters." —Allan Kozinn, New York Times, on Lullaby "...a work of quiet rapture and refined sensibility...elegant concision..." —Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide, on Lullaby "...the most impressive music I have heard from Rival..." —Mark Morris, Edmonton Journal, on L'Aube WHAT'S NEW JUL 2022—Watch excerpts of all five movements from the world premiere of my Violin Concerto "All'ombra de' cipressi" (under the shadow of the cypresses) performed by Marc Djokic & Sinfonia Toronto led by Nurhan Arman. JUN 2022—On Jun 3, in Vancouver, Chor Leoni Men's Choir, led by Erick Lichte, presents The Midnight Sea, alongside new works by Katerina Gimon & Pierre Simard, as part of the C/4 Canadian Choral Composition Competition. The innovative concert format features a Q & A with the composers and a chance to hear each work twice. MAR 2021—I've completed Nature Rhythms I for piano trio, a work inspired by the empirical study of semi-periodic rhythms occurring in nature: jellyfish, swaying branches, drifting clouds, falling raindrops. Commissioned by the Gryphon Trio for Ottawa Chamberfest with the support of the Ontario Arts Council. PERFORMANCES / EVENTS Date Location Work Details 2022 Apr 1 Toronto, ON Violin Concerto (world premiere) Marc Djokic, solist. Sinfonia Toronto. Nurhan Arman, Music Director. Jane Mallett Theatre (& livestream). Commissioned with support of the Canada Council & the Ontario Arts Council. Apr 29 Surrey, BC The Midnight Sea (pre-premiere?) Chor Leoni Men's Choir. Erick Lichte, Artistic Director. White Rock Concerts. White Rock Baptist Church. 5p & 7p. May 12 & 13 Vancouver, BC The Midnight Sea (pre-premiere?) Chor Leoni Men's Choir. Erick Lichte, Artistic Director. St. Andrew's-Wesley United. Jun 3 Vancouver, BC The Midnight Sea (official world premiere!) Commissioned by Chor Leoni Men's Choir. C/4 Canadian Choral Composition Competition finalist. Erick Lichte, Artistic Director. Jun 26 Scarborough, ON Northwest Passage Variations Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. Martin MacDonald, Artistic Director. Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto. Sep 23 Edmonton, AB Sunshine Variations (world premiere) Edmonton Recital Society commission in memory of Tanya Prochazka. Kathleen de Caen (vc) & Janet Scott Hoyt (pno). Muttart Hall, MacEwan University. 2023 Apr 11 Montréal, QC Violin Concerto Marc Djokic, solist. Orchestre classique de Montréal. Nurhan Arman, conductor. Salle Pierre-Mercure. May 4 Hamilton, ON Scherzo "Crème Brûlée" Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. Gemma New, conductor. The Cotton Factory. PREMIERES POSTPONED (COVID-19) ? Ottawa, ON Nature Rhythms I (world premiere) Commissioned by the Gryphon Trio for Ottawa Chamberfest with the support of the Ontario Arts Council. ? Harrington, QC The Grass Is Full of Stars (world premiere) For children's choir & chamber ensemble. Commissioned by violinist Marc Djokic for CAMMAC with the support of the Canada Council.