Tag: performance

9 Mar 2011
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March 9 and 10, 2011

From the Tapestry website:

“Sung in Ukranian, Russian and English, this opera vérité with prologue and epilogue uses non-operatic music from various cultures to enhance the composed score and drama. The tragic ménage à trois is a topic as ancient as Greek drama, but in Oksana G. it takes on a life as immediate as today’s headlines, yet honours the ingredients common to all great operas: universality, timelessness and high emotion.”

7:30pm, Ernest Balmer Studio
55 Mill Street (map)
Toronto, Canada
Tickets: $25/$20
www.tapestrynewopera.com    
20 Jan 2011
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Luciane Cardassi and I have the privilege of opening UCSD’s first Sonic Diasporas Festival, featuring the works of the music department’s alumni. On this concert, Luciane gives a repeat performance of Hockey Story, which she commissioned in 2009. The piece, for piano, electronics, and the voice of the pianist, takes a look at hockey in all of its dimensions, from the pro level to young children, players to fans, suspense to stats.

10:30am, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive (map)
San Diego, CA, USA
Free admission
musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts/    
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Below is a selected listing of some of my performing experiences.

2001–2002
  • Percussion for the Academy of Strings Orchestra, Edmonton, conductor: Tanya Prochazka
2001
  • Drums for band Crushing Jane, EdgeFest, Edmonton
    Drums and auxiliary percussion for Nuffsed and FORM jazz choirs, Edmonton, director: Scott Leithead
2000–2001
  • Congas and bongos for salsa group Bomba, Edmonton (subbing)
1999–2000
  • Drums for the Grant MacEwan College/University of Alberta jazz band
1997–2000
  • Drums for pop band Cove
1998–2001
  • Grant MacEwan College Percussion Ensemble, Edmonton, director: Brian Thurgood
1998
  • Soloist for Concertino for Marimba and Winds by Alfred Reed, John L. Haar Theatre, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, conductor: Arthur Milan
1996–1998
  • Percussion for the Edmonton Youth Orchestra, conductor: Michael Massey