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Elegy of Others
Much of my recent work deals with the issue of reappropriation. Where do we get our ideas? What do we owe, if anything, to our sources of inspiration? Historically, composers have stolen ideas from each other regularly, reworking these into…
Premières and Projects 2010
The New Year is off to a busy start, with several premières coming up and a variety of new projects in the works. On 25 Jan 2010, Brazilian-Canadian pianist Luciane Cardassi premières my new piece, Hockey Story, on the Happening…
Posted in News and Events
Elegy of Others Première
orkest de erepris premières a new piece of mine, Elegy of Others, commissioned by them after I won their Young Composers Competition in 2009. The piece is a collage and is reflective in nature, bringing together sources from Vivaldi to…
Awards
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Commissioning Grant (Other Minds Festival, San Francisco) 2010 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers: Godfrey Ridout Award (Vocal Music), third prize Canada Council for the Arts, Commissioning Grant (Tapestry New Opera) ASCAP Foundation, Morton Gould…
Posted in Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experience
Apr 2011 Quatuor Bozzini Composers KitchenMontréal, Canada Workshop and residency with the string quartet. Development and performance of new work. Jan–Mar 2010 Judge JUNO Awards, Classical Composition of the Year Category Sep 2009–present Consultant and Web Writer San Francisco Contemporary…
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orkest de ereprijs at Gaudeamus Music Week
orkest de ereprijs performs my piece, Love in the Time of Connectivity, at the Gaudeamus Music Week. This is the same piece that won their Young Composers Competition in February 2009.
orkest de ereprijs YCM Competition
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…
orkest de ereprijs Young Composers Meeting
Première of a new work written for the ensemble, a collage based on love songs.
New Performances and Projects
This year is off to a busy start, with two premières in Feb. One is a collage piece based on love songs, for the orkest de ereprijs in Holland. The other piece, for soprano and speaking pianist, is based on…
Posted in News and Events
- @elcush Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
- My response to @elcush's The Bacon-Wrapped Economy http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest blog post, looking at the difference between crowdfunding and traditional philanthropy:http://t.co/PFKEL7p9eH
- My latest article: Working for Free: Helpful or Harmful? http://t.co/TvNqXlxT54 a composer's response to @tanehisi Atlantic piece
- Composition Lessons: The Dirty Projector’s “Police Story” and on how to write for voice http://t.co/1ze2kTuBF0
- A friendly review of my premiere at Other Minds last weekend: http://t.co/d1EspIr1Q9
- The @OtherMindsSF Festival was pretty great this year, thanks to all involved.
- Soundcheck for @OtherMindsSF complete, come check out the show tonight, premiere of my piece.
- Apparently my "Machiavellian Guide" now ranks for the search term "iconoclast composer". ;-) http://t.co/tRwTLccA7R
- I will be interviewed by Sarah Cahill on @kalw_radio tonight for the @OtherMindsSF Festival, 8:00pm PST, check it out.
