The junc­tQín key­board col­lec­tive pre­mière this new work on the Barrie’s Colours of Music fes­ti­val. Based on clas­sic fairy­tales with alter­nate end­ings, Dis­ney Princess Dis­as­ters includes three pianists, three squeeze toys, one piano, and three fairy­tale princesses whose fates take a turn for the unexpected…

Gre­gory Oh and Toca Loca pre­mière my new piece, Halo Bal­let (Bipo­lar Dis­or­der NOS) on the X AVANT Festival’s all-dance pro­gramme. Halo Bal­let is a piece for live per­form­ers (piano, key­board, per­cus­sion, harp or gui­tar) and elec­tronic dancers, per­formed in real time within the Halo videogame environment.

The pro­gramme also includes works by John Oswald and Georges Aperghis.

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 R.E.M.

Brazilian-Canadian pianist Luciane Car­dassi pre­mières my new piece, Hockey Story, on the Hap­pen­ing 2010 New Music Fes­ti­val. This piece on the theme of hockey is for speak­ing pianist and electronics.

Ensem­ble Res­o­nance pre­mières a new piece of mine, with a text based on the word kiss in mul­ti­ple lan­guages, com­mis­sioned by New Works Cal­gary.

Pre­mière of Lul­laby and Jack­ham­mer, an adap­ta­tion of Jack­ham­mer Lul­laby.

Flautist Solomiya Moroz and per­cus­sion­ist Nicholas Jacques pre­mière my piece, Shit Around The World, with a text con­sist­ing of the word shit in 12 languages.