This is a reprint of the first edition of my e-mail newsletter.

For some time I’ve had a newsletter signup form on my website but this is the first time I’m actually sending a newsletter out!

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Contents

• Upcoming Concert: Halo Ballet Première – 24 Oct 2010 – Toronto
• Upcoming Concert: Hockey Story – 20 Jan 2011 – San Diego
• Oksana G. Opera Development Workshop
• Results of Experiment: Can I Avoid Choosing the Music I Listen to?
• Help Me Help You: Collaborative Audience Building

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I was asked to be the Com­po­si­tion Fellow for this year’s Cham­ber Music Con­fer­ence and Composers’ Forum of the East in Ben­ning­ton, Ver­mont this Jul. As the Com­po­si­tion Fellow, I will be work­ing with com­posers Lisa Bielawa and Donald Crock­ett, take part in rehearsals, and pre­mière a new adap­ta­tion of one of my works, to be writ­ten for the con­fer­ence participants.

I was com­mis­sioned this year by New Works Cal­gary to write a piece for their res­i­dent group, Ensem­ble Res­o­nance. The piece—for soprano, violin, bass clar­inet, and piano—will be pre­mièred in Nov, and I’ll post spe­cific per­for­mance details closer to then, in the Per­for­mances sec­tion. In terms of theme, I’m plan­ning on put­ting to­geth­er a mul­ti­lin­gual text that looks at the nuances of the word kiss in cul­tures from around the world.