Tag: arditti quartet

Professional Experience
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Jul 2009
Com­po­si­tion Fel­low
Cham­ber Music Con­fer­ence and Com­posers’ Forum of the East
Ben­ning­ton VT, USA
By invi­ta­tion. Duties include com­pos­ing a work for ama­teur musi­cians and coach­ing the ensemble.
Feb 2009
ork­est de ereprijs Young Com­posers Meet­ing
Apel­doorn, the Netherlands
Win­ner of the 2009 com­pe­ti­tion. Wrote a piece for the ensem­ble, par­tic­i­pated in masterclasses.
2008–present
Artis­tic Direc­tor
Recy­cled 80s Live
Canada
Con­ceived and orga­nized the cre­ation of a concert-length, ampli­fied piece for night­clubs based on quo­ta­tions of ‘80s pop songs, includ­ing com­po­si­tion of the score, hir­ing of musi­cians, arrang­ing for per­for­mances, and cre­at­ing audio–video sup­port materials.
Nov–Dec 2009
Banff Cen­tre Fall Cre­ative Music Res­i­dency
Banff, Canada
Sep–Dec 2007
Konin­klijk Con­ser­va­to­rium Res­i­dency
the Hague, the Netherlands
Pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment res­i­dency and com­po­si­tion mas­ter­classes with Mar­tijn Padding.
Aug 2007
Domaine For­get Acad­emy New Music Sem­i­nar
St-Irénée QC, Canada
Par­tic­i­pated in mas­ter­classes. Rehearsals and per­for­mance with the Nou­vel ensem­ble mod­erne.
Feb 2007
Arditti Quar­tet Res­i­dency, UC San Diego Vis­it­ing Artist Pro­gram
San Diego, USA
Com­posed a piece for the Arditti Quar­tet. Rehearsals, record­ing, and mas­ter­classes with the quartet.
2005–2007
Teach­ing Assis­tant
Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego
Prepa­ra­tion: Three-month, inten­sive ped­a­gogy sem­i­nar on teach­ing crit­i­cal read­ing and writ­ing to undergraduates.
Duties: Attend­ing lec­tures and meet­ings with pro­fes­sors, cre­at­ing les­son plans based on course read­ing, teach­ing classes, hold­ing office hours, help­ing stu­dents develop research papers, and grad­ing writ­ten assign­ments and exams.
Classes Taught: (Music) MUS1B Music The­ory, MUS12 Intro to Opera, MUS4 Intro­duc­tion to West­ern Music His­tory, LTEN159 Pop­u­lar Music of the ‘60s; (World Lit­er­a­ture) MMW2 The Great Clas­si­cal Tra­di­tions, MMW3 The Medieval Heritage.
2005–2006
Com­poser in Res­i­dence
Ensem­ble con­tem­po­rain de Mon­tréal Généra­tion 2006
Mon­tréal, Canada
Wrote a piece for the ensem­ble, gave a mas­ter­class on my music at the École de musique Vin­cent d’Indy, rehearsals with stu­dent musi­cians, work­shop and rehearsals with the ensem­ble, cross-Canada tour.
Aug 2005
Tapes­try New Opera Works Composer–Librettist Lab­o­ra­tory
Toronto, Canada
Com­po­si­tion of four short opera scenes with four libret­tists, daily mas­ter­classes and dis­cus­sions, rehearsals with per­form­ers, performances.
Sep 2004–Jan 2005
Uni­ver­sity of Toronto Con­tem­po­rary Opera Show­case Pro­gramme
Toronto, Canada
Only under­grad­u­ate stu­dent invited to par­tic­i­pate. Wrote a cham­ber opera for U of T stu­dents, rehearsed with the singers and ensem­ble, held meet­ings with the music director.
Spring 2004
Artis­tic Direc­tor, Orga­nizer
Uni­ver­sity of Toronto – Har­vard Com­po­si­tion Exchange
Orga­nized a student-run exchange between com­po­si­tion stu­dents at both uni­ver­si­ties. Curated a con­cert of stu­dent works.
Spring 2004
Artis­tic Direc­tor, Organizer
Curated a con­cert of new music for sax­o­phone in Toronto. Respon­si­ble for find­ing per­form­ers, com­pos­ing a new piece, mak­ing pro­gram­ming deci­sions for other reper­toire, and pub­li­ciz­ing the concert.
Sum­mer 2002
Artis­tic Direc­tor, Organizer
Curated a con­cert of new music for stu­dent com­posers at the Uni­ver­sity of Alberta. Respon­si­ble for find­ing per­form­ers, com­pos­ing a new piece, mak­ing pro­gram­ming deci­sions for other reper­toire, and pub­li­ciz­ing the concert.
1995–present
Pri­vate music instruc­tor in per­cus­sion, com­po­si­tion, music the­ory, and history.
Arditti Quartet Residency
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I wrote a piece for the Arditti Quar­tet’s 2007 res­i­dency at UCSD.

26 Feb 2007
Arditti Quartet Residency
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Pre­mière of Four Stills on Evap­o­ra­tion.

Time, Studio A, Warren Lecture Hall
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
Four Stills on Evaporation in Thirty-One Fragments (2007)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: string quartet
Dura­tion: 8’00
Writ­ten for the Arditti Quartet
score view score
mp3 listen to Four Stills on Evaporation (excerpt)
cmc get per­for­mance materials
Per­form­ers: The Arditti Quartet
Pro­gramme Note

This piece reflects my ongo­ing inter­ests in sec­tional forms, doing away with tran­si­tional mate­r­ial, and the chal­leng­ing of aes­thetic assump­tions. There is no attempt to relate any of the mate­ri­als of the piece over the large scale. Instead, I have focused on a broad ges­ture—that of a long dimin­u­endo—that goes from begin­ning to end. Within that ges­ture are a series of thirty-one frag­ments, some with local rela­tion­ships to adjoin­ing frag­ments, some with­out. No struc­tures or orga­niz­ing prin­ci­ples have been used that are not imme­di­ately appar­ent to the ear, and each sec­tion is com­posed intu­itively with regard to pitch, rhythm, tone colour, and phras­ing. The piece also includes sev­eral the­atri­cal ele­ments, and is there­fore best appre­ci­ated in a live performance.

Arditti Quartet, New Wave Change
20 April 2006, 11:03 pmTags: , , ,

First of all, a slight change regard­ing the last post­ing. Due to rehearsal sched­ul­ing com­pli­ca­tions, my piece with Esprit’s New Wave Fes­ti­val has been changed. They will be pre­sent­ing Flüsse-Einflüsse instead. Many thanks to Ina Hen­ning for gra­tiously agree­ing to do this on short notice.

Sec­ondly, I am pleased to announce that I was cho­sen to write a piece for the Arditti Quar­tet dur­ing their res­i­dency at UCSD in 2007. The Arditti are one of the most highly-regarded string quar­tets in con­tem­po­rary music and I am more than thrilled to be work­ing with them.

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