Curriculum Vitae

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Affiliations

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
American Federation of Musicians (member of local 149: Toronto Musician’s Association)
Screen Composers Guild of Canada
Associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre
Canadian League of Composers

Formal Education

1996-1998:  M. Mus. (Composition) McGill University
1995-1996:  Studied with Juno award winning Toronto composer Alexina Louie
1990-1994:  Hon. B. Mus. The University of Western Ontario

Concert Music: Selected Works, Commissions and Performances

Anthropocene, a feature documentary collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. Murcury Films Inc. Toronto.

Founder of EQ: Women in Electronic Music, a program for community and mentoring among women (trans/cis/non binary) 2016-2018. Funding from the SOCAN foundation and sponsorship from MOOGAudio (Toronto)

The Mind at Night(20’); String quartet, piano and percussion; String Quartet No.2 (2023-Title TBA) and Dark Rooms (percussion and electronics) to be recorded by Music in the Barns, Carol Gimbel, artistic director. Recording on New Focus Recordings in 2024. This project is made possible with support and grants from the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

Firewall, performed by Eve Egoyan, (April 6), Cheryl Duvall, The Thin Edge Music Collective (May 24 in Toronto, May 26 in Montreal). Performance by Cheryl Duvall at the Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions, Waterloo ON, August 24.

Residency and coaching/mentoring at Banff Centre for the Arts in electronic music composition. A program developed by acclaimed saxophonist and improviser, Kyle Brenders.

Peformances of Firewall by pianist Barbara Pritchard across Canada. Dates TBA.

Peformance of The Blinding (2018) and talk at ACOUSMA festival of electronic music (Montreal) October 17.

New Work: Commission by percussionist David Schotzko, funded by the Toronto Arts Council, premiere date: March 2018.

Performance of Transported by Ensemble Paramirabo, Salle multimédia du Conservatoire, Montreal, September 23 and commission of new work in 2018.

The Memory of Waves (2014), Fragile Geographies (2017) performed by Pemi Paull, April 6th, at the Canadian Music Centre, Toronto.

Premiere of Song of Extinction (www.songofextinction.com) at Toronto’s Luminato Festival: a 45 minute multimedia work for choir, chamber ensemble and electronic music. Video by Marc de Guerre. Libretto/text by Don McKay (Order of Canada), Produced by Music in the Barns.

Transported (2013-16), Orchestra and multiple speaker surround sound electronics version, performed by the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, conducted by Edwin Outwater, on a concert featuring Nunavut vocalist Tanya Tagaq, on February 5, 6th.
Transported (2013) Chamber version, performed by Ensemble Paramirabo at Salle Multimédia du Conservatoire, Montréal, September 23.

The Memory of Waves (2014) performed by Elizabeth Reid, March 23, at ArtsRiot, Burlington, VT, second performance November 18, 2016 at Gallery 345, Toronto.

Preview of four new works from Song of Extinction, and The Coming of Sobs performed by Music in the Barns: October 2015, Feast in the East, Toronto.

Time Eternal (10’); violin and electronics, release on CMC Centretracks as an EP in November (Created in 2012).

The Memory of Waves (12’30); solo viola. Commission from Pemi Paull. Premiere: August 1, Heliconian Hall, The Toronto Summer Music Festival, Shuffle Series.

Transported (14’); flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello, piano and live diffused electronics. Premiered February 10, The Citadel, Toronto. Commission by Continuum, assistance from the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council.

Place-Time-Space, Bird Circus, the Journey, Crown of the Bell (see 2011); adapted for violin, multiple speakers and video by Marc de Guerre at the Music Gallery’s X Avant Festival. Opening set for acclaimed minimalist performer Charlemagne Palestine (US).

The Journey (10’); violin and electronics. Speaker installation at Grow Op, the Gladstone Hotel in a collaboration with installation artist Karen Abel. Second version with video by Marc de Guerre at the Music Gallery’s X Avant Festival, October, 2013.

The Coming of Sobs (15’); string quartet. Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble: March 1, the Academy of Lions, Toronto.

Internal Time (12’); electronics and recorded ambient sounds for multiple speaker installation.

The Coming of Sobs; Premiere by Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, February 25.

Time Eternal (10’), The Descent (10’), Night Road (9’30); suite of three pieces for violin/viola and live electronics, premiered by the composer in Toronto at the Musideum, 401 Richmond St.

The Bell (see 2011); adapted for Baroque violins, viola, cello and harpsichord. Feburary 18, 2012. Glen Gould Studio, Toronto, by the Aradia Ensemble.

The Crown of the Bell (9’30); eight speaker installation with video by Marc de Guerre. Presented at the Canadian Music Centre on October 1, an official part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Funding granted by CMC’s New Music in New Places initiative.

The Distance of Their Mouths (22’); voice, violin, cello, recorder, and live video and narration by artist Elizabeth Chitty. Commissioned by the Gallery Players of Niagara with funding from the Ontario Arts Council. Premiere: Jan 28, St. Catherines, ON.

The Bell (5’) Harpsichord, strings, recorder, bassoon. Commissioned by The Aradia Ensemble, directed by Kevin Mallon. Premiere: Feburary 3, 2011. Glen Gould Studio, on Baroque Idol, a concert of new works by the Aradia Ensemble.

Rose Petal (6’), Space Time Place (5’), Kew Beach (13’), Shoreditch Distant Memory (2’); a suite of four compositions for electronic and ambient sounds, for listening to through headphones, funded by a Canada Council Grant to Individual Musicians.

Kew Beach presented as a sound/video installation by New Adventures in Sound Art, Aug 4, Wychwood Barns, Toronto. Soundscape by Rose Bolton, video by Marc de Guerre.

Lotus (15’); commissioned by Pemi Paull, viola; Yuki Isami, flute; Sarah Pagé, harp. Financial assistance granted from the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

To the Birds and Animals of the World (5’); 10 flutes, situated throughout an atrium. Commissioned and premiered by Redshift Music, March 14, 2010, and at the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, followed by a second Vancouver performance in April.

A Day of Infinite Time (10’); jointly commissioned by the CBC and the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, conducted by Edwin Outwater. Funding from the CBC. Premiered April 30, 2009. The Humanities Theatre, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

Unheard Message (5’34); ambient electronic work with modified violin, piano and found sounds. Created for a compilation on Hypnos, an ambient music label based in Portland, OR, USA.

Very Near the Edge of the Flat Earth (7’); RCM grade 7 work for viola and piano. Funded by the Norman Burgess Commission. Premiere: Arts and Letters Club, Toronto. Performances from 2010-14 by numerous professional and student ensembles.