News
UPCOMING EVENTSWORK-IN-PROGRESS
- Red Chamber performs Oliver and Cage on Cross-Canada Tour, February 16 to March 7, and Northwest Territories May 10-16. For more details, please visit my blog entry. For itinerary of concerts, please visit Mei Han's web site.
- Oliver is Composer-in-Residence at the 2010 Northwest Guitar Festival, April 9-11, 2010
- Vancouver premiere of guitar concerto La Abuela, guitarist Alexander Dunn & the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Saturday April 24, 2010. Info & Tickets.
- World Premiere, Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, commissioned work, November 6, 2010, Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
- World Premiere, Canadian flutist Chenoa Anderson, commissioned work
- World Premiere of new work for amplified instruments and computer by Sweden's ARS NOVA ensemble
RECENT NEWS
- World Premiere, Chamber Concerto, Turning Point Ensemble, Feb. 24, 2010, work commissioned for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Info & Tickets.
- January 23, 2010: Canadian League of Composers (CLC) presents “Cultivating Your Career: A Workshop for Composers at All Stages of Their Career”, Western Front, Vancouver, BC. Oliver appears on the Composers Panel
- thingNY presents: SPAM featuring Oliver’s CLIMATE CHANGE, newly-commissioned work, Sat. Dec. 19, 2009 - 7:00pm, The University of the Streets, 130 E 7th Street (at Ave. A), New York, NY
- “60x60 Canada Dance Mix”, 60 one-minute compositions for multiple loudspeakers; Oliver’s You Are With Us is in the mix. Dec 04 09 at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University,, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal
- October 16, 2009: Bruce Mather performs The Hot Tempered Clavier (2005) on his 16th-of-tone piano, St. Peter’s United Church, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
- Monday, October 12, 2009: The lyric opera company Chants Libres (Montréal) is pleased to announce the release of the DVD made from the World Premiere performance of the opera Alternate Visions by composer John Oliver and writer Genni Gunn, both of Vancouver. The DVD was recorded during the first run of the opera in Montreal from May 2 to 5, 2007. For more information about the opera and to purchase, please visit the web page.
- Oliver accompanies Ottawa countertenor Kai Ma in a Benefit Concert for the devastation caused in Taiwan by the Morakot typhoon. All proceeds go to the relief fund. Their performances of Frescobaldo, Grandi, Dowland, Mozart and Beethoven received a standing ovation. Ryerson United Church, Friday Sept. 18, 7:30 pm
- Performed World Premiere of La Sombra Espiral for classical guitar and string quartet by Canadian composer John Burke at MusicFest Vancouver, August 11, 2009. John Oliver’s commission of this work was made possible by a grant from the BC Arts Council.
- Completed Birds of Paradise Lost for flute and computer, a work commissioned by Canadian flutist Chenoa Anderson with the gratefully-ackonwledged assistance of The Canada Council for the Arts.
- May 1, 2009: Red Chamber performs Oliver arrangement of his own work A Dream of Africa, as well as the first of John Cage's "Three Dances" for two prepared pianos at the OPEN EARS festival in Kitchen-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- Feb. 4, 2009: Western Canadian premiere of Prismophony guitar quartet at “New Music for Guitar(s)”, Victoria BC.
- ARS NOVA ensemble (Sweden),
- Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra.
- surround DVD of The Immersive Sound Project.
- BC Chinese Music Ensemble/NuBC
I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
which last year invested $26.3 million in music throughout Canada.