April 8th, 2009
CME Concert - The concert featured premiere pieces by undergraduate composition students Matthew Ricketts and Darren Russo as well as D. Andrew Stewart's doctoral thesis work "Catching Air and the Superman" (for chamber orchestra, keyboard synthesiser and 2 t-sticks)(programme) (photos)
March 15th, 2009
MUCO 542 Class Concert - A Concert of Live Electronics - The class concert (held in Tanna Schulich hall) was perhaps the most daring ever. Mix together six composition students, a 4-core Mac Pro, Max/MSP, six performance students and a live audience . Talk about a pressure cooker!(programme) (photos)
March 14th, 2009
MUCO 342 Class Concert - Sensitive Feelings - with special guest ~spin~ - The concert (held in Tanna Schulich hall) was well attended . In the first half the students were able to diffuse their works using a 7 speaker surround setup. After intermission ~spin~ a new project of James Harley (electroacoustics, processing and sound diffusion) and Ellen Waterman (flutes/voice) was presented.(programme) (photos)
March 10th, 2009
Stephen Davidson's Master's recital was held in Pollack hall at 8pm. Stephen (bass clarinet, student of Lori Freedman) performed among other works , a piece by Kaija Saariaho "Oi kuu" featuring Chloé Dominguez on cello and "Phonessence" by Master's student in Composition Nina Young.(programme)
March 2nd-7th 2009
MusiMars 2009 "Distorted Time" BRUCKNER - WEBERN: Time Signatures. MusiMarch 2009 was a roaring success, presenting and linking together many different ways of manipulating time, in all their stretches and compressions... The 6 "Large-Scale-Events" (each evening had the length of two traditional concerts) provided exploratory paths fluctuating through contrasting musical periods, instrumental genres, forms, geographies, cultures and aesthetics.
December 3rd, 2008
Jean Piché , Faculté de Musique, Université de Montréal: "Ears and eyes: Audiovisual compositions for high definition media" Four multichannel videomusic works were presented tracing the evolution of this new hybrid genre from early manifestations in the mid 1990's to the mind-bending possibilities of contemporary audiovisual technologies. The presentation in the MMR included the preview of a major new work for six percussionists and three High-Definition video channels. Part of live@CIRMMT
October 21st-24th, 2008
Duo pour un violoncelle et un danser ( a co-production of CIRMMT and Van Grimde Corps Secrets with technical support by the DCS) featuring music by Sean Ferguson, Doctoral candidate Chloé Dominguez on cello and control of spatilization using the T-Stick was performed in the MMR to rave reviews !
October 17th, 2008
Mantra (1970), for two pianists and live electronics by the late German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was performed by Xenia Pestova and guest pianist Pascal Meyer (Luxembourg), with graduate composition student Marielle Groven doing sound projection in Pollack Hall.
May 16th, 2008
Xenia Pestova's Doctoral Lecture-Recital was held in Tanna Schulich Hall at 8pm. It was followed by the DCS end-of-the-year party on the 8th floor of the new music building ! (Lecture/Recital photos)
April 30th, 2008
Erika Donald's Master's Recital was held in Tanna Schulich hall at 8pm
April 18th-20th 2008
The Incubator Conference presented six musical interludes, three of which featured pieces by McGill student composers.
April 11th, 2008
The class concert for MUCO 542
April 10th, 2008
The class concert for MUCO 342 (programme)
April 9th, 2008
The McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble concert in Pollack Hall featured the works of several McGill Composition students.
April 1st, 2008
"McGill Staff and Guest Series" presented TOCA LOCA with Aiyun Huang - percussion , Gregory Oh and Simon Docking - piano
March 3rd-7th, 2008
MusiMars 2008
February 8th, 2008
Fernando Rocha's Doctoral Lecture-Recital was held in Tanna Schulich Hall at 5pm.
"Works for percussion and computer-based live electronics- Aspects of performance with technology"
-Wooden Stars (2006-rev. 2008)_________________________Geof Holbrook
-Anamorfoses(2008 , world premiere)_____________________Sergio Freire
-Traces IV (2006-rev. 2008, North-American Premiere) _______Martin Matalon
-Improvisation for hyper-kalimba
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