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Mezzo-soprano Jean StilWell performs works by Luciano Berio, R. Murray Schafer, and Igor Stravinsky.Bellows & Brass (Guy Few, trumpet and piano ; Joseph Petric, accordion ; Alain Trudel, trombone) ; Boyd McDonald, piano.G.E.M.S. (Group of the Electronic Music Studio), initiated by John Oliver, Claude Schryer and Alcides Lanza in May, 1983, is a composer / performer chamber ensemble specializing in electroacoustic works, especially those created using the resources of the McGill University Electronic Music Studios.Beauty Enthralled includes five very different, very personal interpretations of Indian music traditions, gestures, practices and usages, as performed by Parmela Attariwala on violin and viola, along with guest performers Ravi Naimpally, tabla and singer/composer Kiran Ahluwalia.
Beat
An anthology of electroacoustic music from Canada and the European Union
Mr. Underhill writes: "I have long been fascinated by the unusual and poetic place-names for lunar features which were created by Johannes Ricciocoli in the mid-17th century. One such name is the 'Bay of Dew' or 'Sinus Roris' in Latin. The 'Bay of Dew' is in fact a crater on the moon, but in my mind, I envisaged a tiny body of water that had been entirely created by the gradual collection of precious drops of dew as they formulated in the early morning hours."Influenced by artists as diverse as Lamonte Young, Terry Riley, Neil Young and Dirty Three, their [The Beans] epic instrumental compositions are as breathtakingly beautiful as they are imaginative and intricate.Ballade of the North
Canadian Women Composers
More than anything else, Back To Back, is about teamwork, in this case the team of Canadian Hugh Fraser and Virgin Islands expatriate, Jean Toussaint. The players bring to bear on this collaboration their enormous talents, honed over the course of their already remarkable careers.Awakenings is four-way collaboration of composer/performers Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell, based on poetry of Di Brandt and Dorothy Livesay.Canadian drummer, composer and bandleader Jay Boehmer has been performing on the Toronto jazz scene since 1990. Composing at the piano with the spirit of a drummer, his music ranges from straight-ahead swing to offbeat rhythmic grooves.Evelyn Stroobach’s Aurora Borealis' contains eleven of her compositions composed for a variety of different musical genres.Au cœur du litige is a radiophonic work consisting at its core of a series of solo clarinet improvisations.Atlas Epileptic represents for Pierre-André Arcand a new cycle in the continuity of what is called audio art, sound poetry, music, non-music, acoustic, electronic, digital.Atlantis presents three daily aspects of radio: information (by commenting on the possible evolution of a society), entertainment (since, through its different musical segments, it attempts to stimulate different aspects of our being), and culture.Astonishing Sense
of being taken over by something far greater than me
Susan Frykberg is a composer of electroacoustic music who often combines feminist ideas and theatrical processes in her work. She has created a number of "environments" in which stories (often mythological) of women's lives are the "context" for her musicAssemblage
Four North American Piano Sonatas
The album Assemaneh contains compositions that were written a few years after Dariush Zarbafian left his home country of Iran.As Trees Grow
by Gayle Young
Array Live brings together five internationally recognized composers in a CD recorded live at the Gelnn Gould Hall in Toronto.Approaching The Spring Place
Michael R. Miller Retrospective
Michael R. Miller's Approaching the Spring Place, a sampling for piano solo, voice and chamber music.Go to Top