> Rose
Bolton
Rose Bolton has been working as a professional composer for the last
ten years, producing chamber and orchestral works, as well as
performing with various improvising groups. As an improviser, she was a
member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble and InnerWorkings, a trio
featuring soprano Janice Jackson, with whom she traveled to Berlin in
2006 for several performances of original works. During this time, her
goal has always been to reach the listener on a basic emotional level.
In 2002, she began to focus her attention on the voice, seeking new
ways to write in a simple, yet expressively charged way. She has
created a number of works that combine speech and singing, in her
pursuit of new means of vocal expression. Rose has also spent years
cultivating a relationship with popular forms of music as a musician.
She has honed her abilities by playing violin and piano in a variety of
genres including country, folk music from the British Isles, Maritime
music, Bluegrass, and popular music from many eras. During this time
she has worked with many vocalists and in order to increase her own
versatility as a performer, she has also taken vocal training. Her
experiences have given her a built-in understanding of melody and the
emotional vocabulary of song. Her compositions have been
performed by Tapestry New Opera, the Esprit Orchestra, the Vancouver
Symphony, Vancouver New Music, New Music Concerts, Continuum,
Arraymusic, MATA, Lensemble contemporain de Montreal, ERGO, ROSA
Ensemble, and numerous other performers, and her music has been
performed throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. Her self
produced CD, Elements (2004), features Janice Jackson, interwoven in a
sonic array of electronic, concrete, instrumental sounds, and sounds of
found objects. Current projects include the beginning of an opera for
Tapestry New Opera, and an electro-acoustic work for Torontos New
Adventures in Sound Art, to be premiered in the summer of 2007.
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Monica Clorey
Monica Clorey recently came to Toronto from Prince Edward Island. She
did her Bachelor of Music at Mount Allison University with a focus on
piano and composition. Her compositional style aims for beautiful
sounds, often through the development of compact harmonic material and
carefully shaped melodies. She strives for her compositions to be full of life - to support
themselves on their own, and to breathe with musical feeling. Her
influences include Olivier Messiaen for harmonies, Arnold Schoenberg
for work ethic, and Nathan Richards for pure musical inventiveness.
When she's not composing, Monica enjoys playing squash, watching movies
and good conversation. [Contact: mmclry (at) mta.ca]
> Tim
Corlis
Five stars is the way CBC's Rick Philips describes the music of
composer Timothy Corlis while other reviewers use terms like reverent
and atmospherically striking (Kitchener-Waterloo Record). Corlis is
fluent in the art of studio recording and accomplished when writing for
live instrumental/vocal ensembles. His compositions, ranging from jazzy
choral music to avant-garde sound art, have been performed by some of
Canada's most prominent musicians. These include Roman Borys and
Annalee Patipatanakoon (both members of the Gryphon Trio), Erika Raum,
Scott St. John (St. Lawrence String Quartet), Simon Fryer (Penderecki
quartet), Lydia Wong, Heather Dawn-Taves, and Laura Pudwell. His choral
music has been performed by chamber choirs both locally and far afield
under the direction of Marta McCarthy, Leonard Enns, and Tim Shantz. He
has been awarded commissions from local performers and ensembles with
support from the Ontario Arts Council, Trillium Foundation, and Canada
Council for the Arts. As an academic, Corlis has researched spectral patterns in the music of
J. S. Bach and has published in BACH, The Quarterly Journal of the
Riemenschneider Bach Institute. Corlis holds a Masters of Arts in
Social and Political Thought from York University and a Masters of
Music from the University of Toronto, where he studied composition
under composers Christos Hatzis and Ka Nin Chan. Currently, he teaches
music theory and directs choirs at Conrad Grebel University College,
University of Waterloo.
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Carey Dodge
Carey Dodge is a sound
artist currently pursuing a masters degree in sonic arts at the Sonic
Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen's University in Belfast. He
is originally from St. Catharines, Ontario and has lived in many places
across Canada. He grew up musically in Montreal and has been
involved in composition and sound design for musical performance,
theatre, dance, installations and others' bips and bops. He has a
special interest in spatial composition and that is what he is
exploring at SARC. As for Toronto, he has been involved in
various ways with New Adventures in Sound Art over the past three
years. You can find out more about Carey and his work at:
www.careydodge.ca
> Troy
Ducharme
Troy Ducharme
(b.1977) recently completed his Doctor of Music in Composition at the
University of Toronto, and is currently an instructor of theory and
counterpoint at the University of Western Ontario. His thesis
composition - The Book of Thel, an oratorio on a text by
William Blake - was completed under the supervision of Christos
Hatzis. A wide variety of stylistic, formal, and harmonic
approaches are addressed in Troy’s catalogue of compositions for
orchestral forces, chamber ensembles, and electronics. Troy can
be reached at troyducharme[at]ezlink.ca.
> Emilie LeBel
Emilie LeBel is a
Toronto based composer, audio engineer, music educator and
performer/improviser (trumpet, piano & electronics). She has
studied at the University of Victoria, Harris Institute for the Arts
and York University. She is presently completing a Master of Arts
Degree in Composition at York University. Emilie maintains an active
musical life outside of her academic studies. She teaches
trumpet, piano, composition and audio engineering and she also works on
a variety of collaborative projects with other Toronto artists.
As a performer she plays trumpet, piano and electronic media in a
variety of ensembles encompassing genres from contemporary classical to
improvisation to indie pop. As a composer Emilie draws on many
influences, from her classical training, to her fascination with sounds
and electronics, to her interest in interdisciplinarity with visual
arts, and to her interest in contemporary improvisation. She composes
works for a variety of mediums and ensembles in both acoustic and
electroacoustic mediums. Her compositions aim to avoid and break
traditional boundaries in style, form and substance. She strives
to create music that is imaginative, embraces the unusual and draws
from a wide spectrum of sounds.
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Hanna Matthijsse
A Native of Grande Prairie Alberta, Hanna Matthijsse began her musical
studies on the accordion at the age of five, and later began violin
through the public school string program. Following lesson in Grande
Prairie with Norris Berg, Hanna continued to study in Edmonton with Tom
Johnson. Hanna recently graduated from the University of Western
Ontario, receiving the gold medal for the most outstanding orchestral
instrument of her graduating class. She completed her bachelors degree
under the tutelage of Gwen Thompson and Annette-Barbara Vogel. She
currently resides in Toronto where she is completing her Artist Diploma
at the Glenn Gould School studying with Mayumi Seiler.
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Stephanie Moore
Stephanie Moore recently graduated from the University of Toronto. The
past few years she has been particularly interested in the relationship
between text and music and the result has been settings of poems by
Toronto poets Anne Michaels and Ken Babstock, German poet Kristiane
Allertz-Wybranietz and Gertrude Stein. In Fall 2003 she also wrote
music for an opera scene adapted from Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
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Henry Ng
Henry J. Ng is a SOCAN award winning composer and sound artist
whose works have been performed by ensembles and organizations such as
the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Sounds Underground and the Canadian
Contemporary Music Workshop. His music has been broadcasted on CIUT and
CBC Radio and he has written for many different media, including
various chamber ensembles, a short opera scene, a sound installation,
and numerous instrumental works that incorporate live electronics. His
interest in music technology have led to other opportunities, including
the chance to present work at the 2005 Digital Music Research Network
Summer Conference in Scotland, and assisting a visual artist for
Toronto’s Nuit Blanche event in 2006. In addition to his composition
activities, Henry also works as an audio technician and sound engineer.
www.henryngmusic.com
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David Ogborn
Freely traversing
borders and genres, David Ogborn is a composer, guitarist and performer
of electronic sound and video. At the centre of his work is the
combination of traditional performance arts with electronic elements —
whether these be recordings of diverse outdoor environments around the
world, improvisations on a laptop or altered guitar, video projections
influenced by live musical gestures, or massive synthesized sounds on
immersive arrays of loudspeakers. His sound installation
Dream House
was featured at the Canadian Music Centre's Chalmers House during
Toronto's inaugural Nuit Blanche and his live electronic music for
Fritz Lang's silent film
Metropolis
was a special event at the Esprit Orchestra's 2007 New Wave
festival. In November 2007 the Transatlantic Transient tour saw
Ogborn perform on guitar and electronics in Amsterdam, Belfast, Berlin,
and several Canadian cities. He is an Associate of the
Canadian Music Centre, a founding member of the angelusnovus.net group, and serves on the board of the
Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC). David's website is
davidogborn.net.
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William Rowson
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Jason Stanford
Jason Stanford (b.1976) is a composer based in Toronto, and is
presently a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. He has as a
number of interests beyond music, particularly visual art, his first
love previous to music. Future projects will attempt to bring together
aspects of visual arts with music, and potentially digital video (a
burgeoning interest). The past several years have been focused on the
composition of acoustic works, and Jason looks forward to future
projects that will allow him to experiment and to compose works for
live-performance real-time sound synthesis, electronics, and alternate
controllers. Contact Info:
www.jasonstanford.com
[email: jason [at] jasonstanford.com]
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Chris Thornborrow
