I’m quite happy to announce that I won another SOCAN Award this year, my fifth so far (press release). I was awarded first prize in the vocal cat­e­gory for Sen­sa­tional Rev­o­lu­tion in Med­i­cine, a piece for soprano and speak­ing pianist, premièred by Xin Wang and Gre­gory Oh at the SHIFT Fes­ti­val in Toronto this year. For those not famil­iar, the SOCAN Awards is the major Cana­dian com­pe­ti­tion for com­posers under 30, and I’ve been for­tu­nate to have received sev­eral awards, begin­ning in 2004. Radio-Canada’s Michel Char­ron also inter­viewed me about the prize this year.

My piece Culture no.3 will be pre­sented on CBC Radio 2’s Two New Hours this Sunday, for those who missed the Ensem­ble con­tem­po­rain de Montréal’s con­certs ear­lier this month or would like to hear it again. Here is the broad­cast info:

Sunday 5 Nov 2006, 10:00pm-12:00am, CBC Radio 2

Check their web­site for your local broad­cast fre­quency. If you’re not in Canada or don’t have a radio, you can also listen to the CBC online by fol­low­ing the link above.

I’ve put up the record­ing of Cul­ture no.1 from Gaudea­mus on my Myspace page. It’s not on this web­site yet because I haven’t fig­ured out how to do stream­ing audio, and I am not able to offer this record­ing for down­load. For the time being, check it out there. You can also rank my music on Myspace…

Also, in coming weeks, the record­ing of my piece from the ECM tour should be broad­cast on CBC Radio 2’s Two New Hours. I’ll post the broad­cast time when it becomes available.