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I love Vancouver on days like today. We’ve got Balinese gamelan, wildly diverse chamber orchestra pieces, and music for virtuoso sho (Japanese mouth organ) plus, well, everything else! Alas, all the concerts are tonight, so it may be challenging to … Continue reading →

Oh yes. And I have proof: If you only have tonight to go to a concert (say you’re going out of town forever, tomorrow, or giving up music for a very late Lent or something) go hear Stellaria sing Josquin. … Continue reading →

So, Juno-Award-Winning performers Duo Concertante played my brand-new violin and piano piece, Petrichor, last night in Kitchener-Waterloo! This is slightly too short notice to make it to that concert. (Oops.) But, if you are in Toronto tonight (April 27), or … Continue reading →

Tomorrow night (Saturday, April 20, 2013), Paolo Bortolussi and the Vancouver Island Symphony, conducted by Pierre Simard, will be premiering my new flute concerto, Ornithomancy. Here’s the program note, and page one of the score, in case you are curious: … Continue reading →

Every now and then (well, once…) I post “music that makes me happy to be alive” – music that I want everybody to listen to, in hopes that somebody who hears it will love it as much as I do. … Continue reading →

Tomorrow’s (Tuesday, March 26, 2013) concert of my music at The Cellar, presented by Music on Main, is officially sold out. I’m off to have supper and freak out, before tomorrow’s day of rehearsals. Details about the concert are here, … Continue reading →

‘Tis a bit of a busy week here in Vancouver, especially for me: the VSO Jean Coulthard readings are tomorrow (Yay, talented students who are having orchestra pieces read by the Vancouver Symphony!), on Thursday March 21 I am giving … Continue reading →

Cello soloists Ariel Barnes and Joseph Elworthy join conductor Les Dala and the Vancouver Academy Orchestra (VAMSO) in tomorrow night’s concert at the Orpheum. Sunday February 24th, 7:30 pm. Facebook event page is here. From the VAMSO page: From the New … Continue reading →

Ahem. If you’re in Montréal on Tuesday February 12, don’t miss ECM+, Ensemble de flûtes Alizé et chœur de jeunes flûtistes being directed by Véronique Lacroix in Les Quatre Éléments! Mardi 12 février 2013, 19h30, Salle de concert du Conservatoire … Continue reading →