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March 19th, 2011
McGill Staff and Guests Series: alcides lanza, piano; Meg Sheppard, voice, et al.-Meg Sheppard, voice;
alcides lanza, piano et DSP; Daniel Añez and Janelle Fung, piano; DCS and Richard McKenzie, technical assistance
" The Past is Present " Works commissioned for Meg Sheppard and alcides lanza. Robert F. Jones: Sangeet; Bruce Pennycook:
Praescio VII; Edgar Valcárel: Retablo I; Eduardo Bértola, USHER-II-2005 (world premiere); Laurie Radford: I was struggled...!
; alcides lanza: the freedom of silence
Pollack Hall
8pm- $10
March 26th, 2011
MUCO 342 Class Concert-The students will present their final projects
from the McGill Digital Composition Studios (MUCO 542)
Sean Ferguson; instructor, Marlon Schumacher; teaching assistant
Tanna Schulich Hall
8pm- Free admission
March 27th, 2011
MUCO 542 Class Concert-The students will present their final projects
from the McGill Digital Composition Studios (MUCO 342)
Anthony Tan; instructor, Duncan Schouten; teaching assistant
Tanna Schulich Hall
8pm- Free admission
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Sean Ferguson is Associate Professor of Composition, Director of the Digital Composition Studios , newly
appointed Dean of the Schulich School of Music and past Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology(CIRMMT).
He was born in the remote Northern-Alberta community of Fort Vermilion. He has lived in Montreal since 1990, where he studied composition at
McGill University. His fascination with the mechanics of perception have led him to carry out extensive research in
psychoacoustics and to incorporate these findings into his compositional language. The computational demands of these
psychoacoustic models has also sparked his interest in computer-assisted composition. He is the Instructor of:
MUCO-542 , Advanced Digital Studio Composition II for 2010-11
alcides lanza Director Emeritus of the Digital Composition Studios.Canadian-Argentinian composer, conductor
and pianist born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1929. He moved to New York in 1965, having received a Guggenheim Foundation
fellowship and lived there from 1965 until 1971 where he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
In 1971 he was appointed professor of composition at the Faculty of Music, McGill University in Montreal.From 1974-2003
he was the director of the Electronic Music Studio at McGill (now the DCS). He is the instructor of :MUHL 342
,History of Electoacoustic Music.webpage
Richard McKenzie is the Technical Director of the Digital Composition Studios. He was born and raised in Montreal.
A fascination with New Wave, Synthpop, Post-punk, Alternative dance music and John Cage led him to the present position in
1996. His formal training is in Electronics Engineering Technology. When he is not putting out fires he enjoys testing foot pedals.
Marlon Schumacher is a Phd student in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music. He is the Instructor of:
MUCO-541 , Advanced Digital Studio Composition I and a Studio Assistant for MUCO-542 for 2011-12.
Jimmie Leblanc is a Doctoral student in composition at the Schulich School of Music. He is the Instructor of:
MUCO-341, Digital Studio Composition II for 2011-12.
Anthony Tan is a Doctoral student in composition at the Schulich School of Music. He is the Instructor of:
MUCO-342, Digital Studio Composition II for 2011-12.
Duncan Schouten is a Master's student in composition at the Schulich School of Music. He is a Studio Assistant for:
MUCO-341 , Digital Studio Composition I and MUCO 342, Digital Studio Composition II for 2011-12.
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