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McGill University, Schulich School of Music Percussion Area Faculty |
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McGill University, Schulich School of Music Percussion Area Faculty |
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Prof. Aiyun Huang Percussion Area Chair Director, McGill Percussion Ensemble 
Aiyun Huang was winner of the First Prize as well as the Audience Award (Prix du Public) at the 2002 Geneva International Music Competition; the first prize in percussion has been awarded only three times in the competition’s 59-year history. She has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s Green Umbrella Series, LACMA Concert Series, Holland Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Agora Festival in Paris, rESOund Festival, Banff Arts Festival, 7eme Biennale d’Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Vancouver New Music Festival, CBC Radio, La Jolla Summerfest, Musik 3, The Old Globe Theater, Centro Nacional Di Las Artes in Mexico City, and National Concert Hall and Theater in Taipei.
She performs regularly with the percussion group Red Fish Blue Fish under the direction of Steven Schick, as well as Toca Loca, a group dedicated to expanding the possibilities of contemporary music. Ms. Huang is devoted to the creation of new works for percussion. She has commissioned new works from numerous composers including: British composer Michael Finnisey, Canadian composers Rose Bolton, Linda Bouchard, Inouk Demers, Chris Paul Harman, Alice Ho, David Jaeger, Gary Kulesha and Heather Schmidt; American composers Rick Burkhardt, Sean Griffin, Derek Keller, Chris Mercer and Erik Ulman; Taiwanese composers Kuei-Ju Lin and Chia-Lin Pan. Born in Taiwan, Ms. Huang immigrated to Canada when she was seventeen where she pursued her studies in percussion with members of Nexus. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Toronto, a Premier Prix from Conservatoire Nationale de Region de Rueil-Malmaison in France, a DMA degree from the University of California, San Diego.
E-mail address: aiyun.huang@mcgill.ca Prof. Fabrice Marandola Director, McGill Percussion Ensemble 
Born in 1972, Fabrice Marandola began his musical studies in Montluçon (France).
He then continued his studies in Paris at the Conservatoire du XIII° arrondissement, the Conservatoire National de Région, and finally at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, where he obtained a Diplôme de Formation Supérieure (first prize in percussion) in 1997, in the class of Jacques Delécluse.
He is currently Percussion Area Chair at McGill University, Montreal (Canada) and has previously taught at the CNR de Grenoble and the CNR d'Angers; from 2002 to 2005, he also held the position of percussion pedagogy instructor in the Département de formation à l’enseignement of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
A large part of his musical activities is devoted to new music – he collaborates with the ensembles Les Jeunes Solistes and Zellig, as well as with the composer Arnaud Petit. He remains equally attached to orchestral music and has participated in numerous concerts with the orchestras of Radio-France (Orchestre National de France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France) as percussionist and timpanist, from 1998-2005. The recording Chants … that he recorded with Les Jeunes Solistes (dir. R. Safir), devoted to the vocal works of Claude Vivier, won the Académie du disque Charles Cros Grand Prix 2003, in the category of contemporary music.
In parallel to his career as a musician, Fabrice Marandola carries out research in ethnomusicology.
Holder of a doctorate, with very honorable mention and the congratulations of the jury, he is a member of the Langues-Musiques-Sociétés (Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS-Paris V) laboratory and in collaboration with Nathalie Fernando, published three compact discs on the topic of the traditional music of Cameroun (Inédit and Ocora/Radio France).
Mr. Shawn Mativetsky Director, McGill Tabla Ensemble 
A native of Montreal, Shawn Mativetsky is a percussionist and educator, recognized as a contemporary tabla specialist.
He performs regularly in a variety of settings, including Western classical and contemporary/new music, Indian classical music, and world music. He also composes and performs music for dance and theatre. He is active in the promotion of the tabla and North Indian classical music through lectures, workshops, and performances across Canada, the United States, and England. Based in Montreal, Shawn teaches tabla and percussion, both privately and at McGill University.
Shawn Mativetsky has appeared as a tabla soloist with numerous ensembles and is actively working with composers and performers to integrate the tabla into new Western contemporary classical music repertoire. He can regularly be heard performing solo tabla and percussion, accompanying sitar and bansuri, as well as with the contemporary music ensemble, Quintette Mont-Royal, and the Indian-folk group, Galitcha. Shawn Mativetsky has studied the tabla of North India with Pandit Sharda Sahai and Bob Becker. In addition to his tabla studies, he studied Western classical percussion with Pierre Béluse, D'Arcy Philip Gray, Andrei Malashenko, and Robert Slapcoff, and the percussion of kathakali with Bruno Paquet. Mr. Mativetsky holds a Master's degree in music from McGill University and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
E-mail address: shawn.mativetsky@mcgill.ca |