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SOCAN Awards 2010

Aaron Gervais — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:20:06 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that I received another SOCAN Award this year, bringing my career total up to six. I won a prize in the vocal category for Kiss Around the World, as performed by Ensemble Resonance in November 2009.

I was also pleased to see some of my colleagues receive well-deserved recognition, including Trevor Grahl, Alexandra Fol, and Taylor Brook. Congratulations to all.

2010 JUNO Awards

Aaron Gervais — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:14:26 +0000

Now that the JUNO Awards are over for the year, I can announce that I was invited to be a judge for the 2010 edition of Canada’s music industry awards. As such, I ranked recordings submitted for the “Classical Composition of the Year” category, participating in two rounds of voting, first to select the five finalists, and then to choose the winner. This year, Toronto-based composer Marjan Mozetich won the award. Mozetich is the co-founder of ARRAYMUSIC and he won for his recording of Lament in the Trampled Garden by the Penderecki Quartet.

ASCAP Foundation 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Aaron Gervais — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:44:40 +0000

I’m please to announce that I was awarded honorable mention in this year’s Morton Gould Awards. Founded in 1979, the awards are open to composers under 30 who are American citizens, permanent residents, or foreign students in the US. This year, there were 730 entries, making the Morton Gould Awards extremely competitive.

The piece I submitted was Kiss Around the World, commissioned by New Works Calgary for Ensemble Resonance in 2009.

The press release for the awards lists the judges and other recipients. Composer Carolyn Chen, who studied at UCSD with me, was also awarded honorable mention.

orkest de ereprijs YCM Competition

Aaron Gervais — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:38:11 +0000

I’m pleased and excited to announce that I was declared the winner of this year’s annual Young Composers Meeting in the Netherlands, hosted by renowned Dutch ensemble, orkest de ereprijs. The jurors chose between 16 pieces that the invited composers wrote for the ensemble. My piece, Love in the Time of Connectivity, was a collage of approximately a dozen other pieces, with sources ranging from Claude Debussy to Pizzicato Five. I’ll be writing another piece for the ensemble, to be performed in 2010.

Lt. Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award

Aaron Gervais — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:46:04 +0000

I’m very excited to announce that I was awarded a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award this year. This is a high-profile, multidisciplinary award, given out every other year to early-career artists from Alberta in all disciplines. In the news release for the award, the jury described me as “an artist in full command of his technique whose compositions are most original and inventive, very sophisticated and intellectually engaging”. It’s very gratifying to be given recognition of this kind for my work.