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CURRENT PROJECTS
 
string quartet Nature Rhythms II
book on music, gesture & rhetoric
 
STREAMING
 
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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.

 

Fanfare for the Open Sky

Instrumentation: symphonic brass (4231; no timp, no perc)
Duration: 1:15
Year Composed: 2015

Composed for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's Symphony under the Sky.


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Program Notes

Sky—what a scowl of cloud
   Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
   Splendid, a star!
   
   —Robert Browning

Performances

  • Aug 30, 2015—Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, cond. Bob Bernhardt
    Hawrelak Park (Edmonton, AB)

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