Tag: oksana g

15 Aug 2009
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Work­shop of the opera I am devel­op­ing, Oksana G., at the Banff Cen­tre, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Colleen Mur­phy, Tapes­try New Opera, and Opera​.ca.

8:00pm, Banff Centre Club
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive (map)
Banff, Canada
Contact the Banff Centre for details.
www.banffcentre.ca/music    
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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.

8 Jun 2007
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This fes­ti­val of libretto read­ings fea­tures the new short works for next year’s Opera to Go, as well as excerpts of text and music from Net­suke (by libret­tist Jill Batt­son & com­poser Rose Bolton) and The Enslave­ment and Lib­er­a­tion of Oksana G (by libret­tist Colleen Mur­phy & com­poser Aaron Ger­vais), two full-length operas in devel­op­ment at Tapestry.

7:30pm, Ernest Balmer Studio
55 Mill Street (map)
Toronto, Canada
Tel: 416-537-6066 x 221 | Tickets: $10 / $5 students
www.tapestrynewopera.com    
1 Mar 2006
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From March 1–18, five one-act operas, includ­ing a work by Colleen Mur­phy and myself.

8:00pm, Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Charles and Marilyn Baillie Theatre
Distillery District
Toronto, Canada
www.tapestrynewopera.com    
Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, ten, bari, clar, perc, pno, vln, vc, cb
Dura­tion: 15’00
Com­mis­sioned by Tapes­try New Opera Works
Pro­gramme Note

I wrote this cham­ber opera for three singers and six instru­men­tal­ists in con­junc­tion with Colleen Mur­phy for Tapestry’s Opera To Go series. It tells the story of a young East­ern Euro­pean woman (Oksana) who has found her­self in the safe­house of an Ital­ian priest (Alessan­dro). She has escaped from a pimp (Kon­stan­tin), who tricked her into pros­ti­tu­tion, and now finds that she is falling in love with Alessan­dro. He in turn, despite his priestly call­ing, finds him­self tempted by Oksana. Dur­ing this scene, they dance around the com­pli­ca­tions of their sit­u­a­tion, each one afraid to reveal him– or her– self to the other. In addi­tion, another prob­lem presents itself at the end of the scene.

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Things have been very busy, and I haven’t had the chance to do any site updates between teach­ing, tak­ing classes, and trav­el­ling for workshops/performances. I was recently in Mon­tréal for the Ensem­ble contemporain’s work­shop, and I leave next week for the pre­mière of The Enslave­ment and Lib­er­a­tion of Oksana G. with Tapes­try New Opera in Toronto. See the Per­for­mances sec­tion for details.

In addi­tion, one excit­ing piece of news: my first jury piece from UCSD was selected to com­pete in the 2006 Gaudea­mus Music Week in the cham­ber music cat­e­gory. So I’ll be in Ams­ter­dam in early Sep for that.