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CURRENT PROJECTS
 
—String Quartet No. 2
—book on music, gesture & rhetoric
 
STREAMING
 
Listen to selected orchestral, chamber & choral works.
 
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Find a small selection on music streaming platforms.
 
CD RELEASES
 
Global tapestry - Ananta duo
 
Sonata "Muskoka" for clarinet & piano (Lake movement). Ananta Duo: "Global Tapestry" (2018). Purchase.

 
Windermere String Quartet: Inner Landscapes
 
Traces of a Silent Landscape. Windermere String Quartet: "Inner Landscapes" (2016). Purchase.

 

 
Lullaby. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: "A Concert for New York" (2013). 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards nominee for Classical Recording of the Year. Purchase.

 

Audio Samples

This page contains a discography, a collection of complete recordings and a small selection of samples. Listen to more samples on the pages devoted to each work. Some of these works can be streamed in their entirety on my Canadian Music Centre page (free with registration). View selected works on YouTube.

 

Discography

Global tapestry - Ananta duo Sonata "Muskoka" for clarinet & piano (Lake movement)
Ananta Duo
Global Tapestry
Soundset Recordings, 2018
 
Order CD. Stream via Spotify.
Windermere String Quartet: Inner Landscapes Traces of a Silent Landscape
Windermere String Quartet
Inner Landscapes
Pipistrelle Music, 2016
 
Order CD.
iTunes. Spotify. Naxos Music Library.
Lullaby for orchestra
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
A Concert for New York
ESO Live, 2013
 
Order CD.
 
*Stream complete recording below.

 

Complete Recordings

Lullaby for orchestra

NOTE: begins very quietly

Viola Sonata - I. Turbulent, driving

Viola Sonata - II. Fantasy. Slow & free

Viola Sonata - III. Presto vivo

L'Aube for mixed choir - I. Une Alcôve au soleil levant

L'Aube for mixed choir - II. Demain, dès l’aube

Performed by Pro Coro Canada, conducted by Michael Zaugg, in Edmonton, AB, at All Saints' Cathedral (May 29, 2016).

Spring for string orchestra

Saison des semailles, le soir for a cappella choir

Performed by Pro Coro Canada, conducted by Michael Zaugg, in Edmonton, AB, at All Saints' Cathedral (Oct 19, 2014).

 

Samples

Achilles & Scamander for orchestra (middle)

Whirlwind for orchestra (middle)

Northwest Passage Variations for orchestra (Variation 4: Vivace)

Traces of a Silent Landscape - I. Fugue. Meditation on a snow-blanketed wilderness (opening)

Traces of a Silent Landscape - II. Punctuated tranquility (middle)

Traces of a Silent Landscape - III. Scherzo. Bustle behind a veil of calm (opening)

Traces of a Silent Landscape - IV. Forest's lullaby (middle)

Elegy for Strings (middle)

Piano Trio - I. Allegro (opening)

Piano Trio - II. Elegy (opening)

Schubert Fantasy for violin & piano (middle)

Clarinet Sonata "Muskoka" - Lake (middle)

Red Moon & Other Songs of War - 7. Red Moon [voice & piano version]

Red Moon & Other Songs of War - 5. Iron (opening) [chamber version]

Scherzo for Nonet (opening)

Six Pieces for solo piano - 1. Intermezzo

Six Pieces for solo piano - 4. March

Hearing Lightning, Seeing Thunder (middle)

The Overcoat - How I Love to Copy

The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
- Panko's Petition