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CONTACT

Email: info@robertrival.com

CURRENT PROJECTS

—string quartet Nature Rhythms II
—book on music, gesture & rhetoric

STREAMING

Listen to selected orchestral, chamber & choral works.

View some of these on YouTube.

Find a small selection on music streaming platforms.

CD RELEASES

Sonata "Muskoka" for clarinet & piano (Lake movement). Ananta Duo: "Global Tapestry" (2018). Purchase.

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.

Collaborators
Some ensembles & musicians on the web that have performed my music.
Orchestras	Conductors
Brantford Symphony Orchestra Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra Deep River Symphony Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony National Academy Orchestra Orchestre classique de Montréal Orchestre Métropolitain Ottawa Symphony Orchestra Ottawa Youth Orchestra Regina Symphony Orchestra Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra Sinfonia Toronto Sudbury Symphony Orchestra Symphony Nova Scotia University of Ottawa Orchestra Victoria Symphony Windsor Symphony Orchestra	Nurhan Arman Bob Bernhardt Boris Brott Stuart Chafetz David Currie William Eddins Robert Franz John Gomez José-Luis Gomez Bernhard Gueller Francisco Hernández Bolaños Julian Kuerti Martin MacDonald Gemma New Edwin Outwater Martin Panteleev William Rowson Ronald Royer Philip Sarabura Mark Skazinetsky Jean-Philippe Tremblay Lucas Waldin Michael Zaugg

Ensembles	Musicians
Alcan Quartet Canadian Sinfonietta Chamber Players Elanée Ensemble Grand Philharmonic Choir Gryphon Trio Musica Camerata North/South Consonance Ontario Strings Association Youth Orchestra Opus 8 Choir Ottawa Chamber Players Pro Coro Canada Richard Eaton Singers Talisker Chamber Players University of Alberta Academy Strings Vaughan String Quartet Windermere String Quartet	Nathan Berg, bass-baritone Gregory Butler, piano Melanie Conly, soprano Alexander Dobson, baritone Denise Djokic, cello Marc Djokic, violin Jamie Drake, percussion Ross Edwards, clarinet Michael Esch, piano Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin Sarah Hagen, piano David Jalbert, cello Connie Kaldor, singer-songwriter Cecilia Kang, clarinet Lynn Kuo, violin Peter Longworth, piano Richard Moore, percussion Ana María Otamendi, piano Dillon Parmer, tenor Pemi Paull, viola Charles Pilon, viola Jeremy Spurgeon, piano Sean Rice, clarinet Claudia Schaer, violin Peter Stoll, clarinet Leslie Ting, violin Justin Welsh, baritone Gregory Wiest, tenor

Organizations

Professional organizations & festivals that have supported my work as a composer & scholar.

Brott Music Festival
Canada Council for the Arts
Canadian League of Composers (CLC)
Canadian Music Centre (CMC)
Canadian University Music Society (CUMS)
CBC Radio 2
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Music and Beyond Festival
National Arts Centre Composers Program
Music Toronto
New York International Fringe Festival
Ontario Arts Council
Ottawa Chamberfest
Queen's University
Royal Library of Denmark
Scotia Festival of Music
SOCAN
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Spring for Music Festival
twentieth-century music (CUP)
University of Alberta Press
University of Ottawa
Windsor Canadian Music Festival

Arts & Culture News & Views

Arts Journal	\|	Daily digest of arts, culture & ideas. 200+ world sources.
Alex Ross	\|	New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's blog.

Music Resources

IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library	\|	Over 17,000 public-domain scores available free online.
Digital Mozart Edition	\|	Complete scores in an authoritative edition (free).
Naxos Music Library	\|	Listen to tens of thousands of recordings (subscription).
CBC Concerts on Demand	\|	Listen to concerts recorded live across Canada.
Pytheas Centre for Contemporary Music	\|	Clearing house for info on contemporary composers.
Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores	\|	View scores by contemporary composers (free).
Theodore Presser Online Scores	\|	View scores by contemporary composers (free).
NAC Music Box	\|	Listen to Canadian music performed by NACO (free).
Canadian Music Centre	\|	Listen to music by Canadian composers (free).
Beethoven-Haus in Bonn	\|	The composer's sketches digitized!