Tag: lib-lab

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.
27 Sep 2005
Tapestry Opera Briefs
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Ten brief works from Tapestry’s 2005 Composer–Librettist Lab­o­ra­tory, includ­ing two of mine.

8:00pm, Tapestry/Nightwood Studio, Distillery District
55 Mill Street, The Cannery (Building 58), Studio 315
Toronto, Canada
Tel: 416.537.6066
www.tapestrynewopera.com    
Moving to San Diego
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The Tapes­try LibLab was a suc­cess and I’ve been pack­ing like mad since then. Now I’m off to San Diego to start my Master’s degree. I’ll post news and updates as I get set­tled into the rou­tine of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Best wishes to every­one back in Toronto.

The Secret (2005)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, ten, pno
Dura­tion: 4’00
Libretto by Colleen Murphy, used by permission
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Pro­gramme Note

This is the first work I did with Colleen Mur­phy, while we were par­tic­i­pat­ing in Tapestry’s LibLab in August 2005. The story is about a man who has had an acci­dent, and his unfaith­ful wife/girlfriend who acci­den­tally reveals her infi­delity as she tries to com­fort him.

Tapestry Composer–Librettist Laboratory
12 July 2005, 11:13 pmTags: ,

I was cho­sen for the 2005 edi­tion of the Tapes­try “LibLab”. We will be writ­ing, rehears­ing, and per­form­ing inten­sive short opera scenes daily in Toronto between August 15–24. There are four com­posers and four libret­tists, and we rotate so that each com­poser works with each libret­tist and vice versa. For more infor­ma­tion, see Tapes­try New Opera.

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