A long-term pro­ject of mine is mov­ing for­ward this year. Tapes­try New Opera applied for and received fund­ing from Opera​.ca to pro­duce the first act of the opera I have been devel­op­ing with libret­tist, Colleen Mur­phy. We’ll be involved in round­table dis­cus­sions on the opera in Toronto this spring, and I will be com­pos­ing the music for one act of the opera, to be work­shopped at the Banff Cen­tre in August of this year. The act will then be fully pro­duced in the first part of 2010. More details to fol­low as they become available.

I was com­mis­sioned this year by New Works Cal­gary to write a piece for their res­i­dent group, Ensem­ble Res­o­nance. The piece—for soprano, vio­lin, bass clar­inet, and piano—will be pre­mièred in Nov, and I’ll post spe­cific per­for­mance details closer to then, in the Per­for­mances sec­tion. In terms of theme, I’m plan­ning on put­ting to­geth­er a mul­ti­lin­gual text that looks at the nuances of the word kiss in cul­tures from around the world.

Under devel­op­ment with Tapes­try and lib­ret­ist Col­leen Murphy.