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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Paris - Amsterdam 512 premiere a popular event in Amiens FRANCE
Merci 1000 fois pour ta pièce , qui fut l'un des beaux moments de notre Journée !!
Les participants, petits et grands, comme le public ont accueilli ta pièce avec enthousiasme !
Serge Bertocchi
(saxophonist, event organizer)
UPCOMING EVENTS
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
- Time is Dust - a surround DVD of The Immersive Sound Project; expected fall 2010
- Forging Utopia - a CD of Oliver’s orchestral music; expected fall 2010
- World Premiere, Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, commissioned work, November 28, 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
- World Premiere of a new work for the combined forces of the BC Chinese Music Ensemble and NuBC
RECENT NEWS
- Red Chamber performed A Dream of Africa July 10 at the Michael J Fox Theatre, 7:30 as part of the BCCME concert "Better City, Better Life"
- Oliver performed on electric guitar and computer/sampler as guest musician of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Saturday May 22 at the Roundhouse in a program of three Canadian works by Scott Good, Andrew Staniland and Erik Ross, as well as Ryoanji by John Cage.
- May 18, 2010: performance of Tossing and Turning for solo violin, Piotr Szewczyk, Hicks Auditorium, Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Vancouver premiere of Guitar concerto La Abuela, guitarist Alexander Dunn & the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Saturday April 24, 2010. Info & Tickets.
- 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. Included performances by all of the guitar competition participants of Oliver's Pavanas for classical guitar as the imposed piece, as well as the Victoria premiere of Oliver's guitar quartet PRISMOPHONY performed by the Victoria Guitar Trio and Alexander Dunn.
- Bruce Mather’s new Double-CD “Music in thirds and sixteenths of tones” features my Hot Tempered Clavier, a reworking of the famous Bach Well-Tempered Clavier to “compose the temperment.” If Bach wanted to play music in any key on a single keyboard, using the new equal-tempered tuning system, I have taken the first and second preludes and fugues and reworked them so that the temperment moves from 12-tone ET, through various divisions (24, 48, and 96 divisions) into what I call “spectral tuning” at the cadences. Your ears will stand up on end! Also contains music by Wychnegradsky, J.E. Marie, J. Burke, M. Patch, G. Tremblay, J. Desjardins, M. Gonneville, O. Gagnon, J. Winiarz, and Bruce Mather himself. The CD is published by SNE (SNE-667-CD) and can be purchased by emailing the company. See the cover to the right.
- March 28, 2010: Performance of Raven’s Cry for voice, piano and prerecorded audio; Heather Pawsey, voice; Rachel Iwaasa, piano; UBC Museum of Anthropoogy as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places series.
- World Premiere, Five-ring Concerto, Turning Point Ensemble, Feb. 24, 2010, work commissioned for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Info.
- 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
- ARS NOVA ensemble (Sweden),
- Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra.
- BC Chinese Music Ensemble/NuBC
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I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts 