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CURRENT PROJECTS
 
book on music, gesture & rhetoric
six pieces for piano in memoriam Peter Longworth
 
LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC
 
Traces of a Silent Landscape
Sonata "Muskoka"
 
CD RELEASES
 
Global tapestry - Ananta duo
 
Sonata "Muskoka" for clarinet & piano (Lake movement). Ananta Duo: "Global Tapestry" (2018). Purchase. Spotify.

 
Windermere String Quartet: Inner Landscapes
 
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.

 

Teaching

University Teaching
  • University of Ottawa, Adjunct Professor, 2016-present
    Long-Term Appointment, 2023-present
    Coordinator of the Composition Sector, 2021-present
    UNDERGRADUATE
    • Théorie et analyse I (2x) / Theory & Analysis I (7x)
    • Théorie et analyse II (2x) / Theory & Analysis II (7x)
    • Théorie et analyse III (3x) / Theory & Analysis III (3x)
    • Théorie et analyse III IV / Theory & Analysis IV (3x)
    • Thèmes choisis en contrepoint (Renaissance) (3x)
    • Topics in Counterpoint (Baroque) (4x)
    • Seminar: Extended Tonal Techniques
    • Techniques de composition I
    • Composition I, II (individual lessons)
    • Topics in Music Appreciation I (2x)
    GRADUATE
    • Seminar: Extended Tonal Techniques
    • Seminar: Music & Narrative
    • Seminar: Introduction to Musical Research
    • Seminar: Music, Gesture & Rhetoric
    • Applied Music: Composition (individual lessons)
  • Queen's University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2014-16
    • Theory & Analysis I
    • Composition Seminar
    • Modal Counterpoint
    • Extended Tonal Techniques
    • Contrapuntal Analysis
    • private composition lessons
  • University of Alberta, Instructor, 2013-14
    • Issues in Theory & Analysis: Extended Tonal Techniques (graduate)
    • Seminar in Music Theory: Music & Narrative (graduate)
  • University of Toronto, Instructor, 2011
    • Materials of Music IIB (UTSC)
  • University of Windsor, Instructor, 2009-10
    • Basic Skills I (3 sections)
    • Basic Skills II (3 sections)
    • Voice-Leading & Arranging I
    • Voice-Leading & Arranging II
  • University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant, 2007-09
    • Materials of Music IB
    • Materials of Music IIB
    • Materials of Music III
    • Listening to Music (UTSC non-major survey)
  • New York University, Instructor, 2000-03
    • Writing the Essay (5 sections)
    • The World through Art (2 sections)
    • Writing the Essay (2 sections)
    • Writing Workshop (4 sections)
  • University of Ottawa, Instructor, 1996-98
    • Scoring for School Band & Choir
    • Sight-Singing & Dictation I (2 sections)
ESO Young Composers' Project
As part of my residency with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (2011-14), I ran the Young Composers' Project. Each year one or two local high school students are selected to write an original piece under the guidance of the composer-in-residence, the works typically premiered at Symphony under the Sky over the Labour Day weekend. Daniel Belland (2012) won the Canadian Music Centre's Prairie Region Emerging Composer Prize for Voyage which was subsequently featured at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival. The ESO programmed Taran Plamondon's Flight (2013) at its 2013 annual gala and again during the regular season in 2014/15.
 
Here is a video produced by ATB Financial featuring interviews with me and the two 2012 participants.