Performances

2023

Confluence for SSA Choir – Maddalena’s Descant (Treble Choir). Poetry by Rae Crossman. Public Premier June 17, 2023. St. Titus Anglican Church

Performance of The End of the World (or else the beginning) – Emily Carr String Quartet with Mark McGregor (flute). May 19, 2023. Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC.

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher, for 30 Percussionists – Commissioned by Redshift / Vertical Orchestra with funding from the SOCAN Foundation. Premiere April 2023, Vancouver Public Library Atrium

Sonic Boom Festival – Composer in Residence. Performance of Is She… for soprano and piano. Performed by Dory Hayley and Michael Park. March 2023, Orpheum Annex

Winter Songs for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra. Commissioned by the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra with Marion Newman. Lyrics by Tina Biello, past Poet-Laureate for Nanaimo, BC. Premiere February 2023. Nanaimo and Courtenay 

2022

Performances of And Birds Do Sing – Okanagan Symphony Orchestra – Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon. November 2022

Shadow Catch (Act III)  – UBC Opera. Remounting of this collaborative Noh-influenced collaborative Chamber Opera. Directed by Nancy Hermiston, conducted by Jonathon Girard. UBC Old Auditorium (Vancouver), March 12 and 13, 2022

This Breath Between Us for Bassoon and Oboe. Commissioned by the Artemis Musicians’ Society with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts. Online Premiere Summer 2023. Live Premiere March 2024.

Songs for Klee Wyck (Mezzo and String Quartet) – Commissioned by the Emily Carr String Quartet with support from the BC Arts Council. Recording of full song cycle with Marion Newman in November 2022.

2021

Performance of The tide rises, the tide falls – Turning Point Ensemble (fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, vln, vla, vc, cb, hp, pno). Orpheum Annex, November 2021

Heartbeat, for Solo Vibraphone – commissioned by Katie Rife, percussionist for a video project with funding from the BC Arts Council. Online premiere 2023 

After Rain (Mezzo, fl, b. cl, vln, vc, perc); A collaboration with writer Rae Crossman Blueridge Chamber Music Festival. Commissioned with funding from the BC Arts Council Premiere in August 2021, Orpheum Annex and the Polygon Gallery  

Shelter, solo piano – Rachel Iwaasa (pno) / Sonic Boom Festival of BC Composers *Premiere online. March 2021 (Postponed from March 2020)

2020

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra: Digital Concert Hall. Recorded a video performance of And Birds Do Sing. Orpheum, Vancouver. November 2020. VSO Online Series *Performance only available by subscription 

Le Merle Noir – Standing Wave. Performances at VSO New Music Festival and Kay Meek Centre. January 2020. Recorded Spring 2021 for Standing Wave’s new album 20th Century Remix

Four Directions, for solo flute – Unaccompanied Series / Mark McGregor (flute) Online video series produced by the Canadian Music Centre and Redshift Music.

2019

The End of the World (or else the beginning) – Mark McGregor and the Borealis String Quartet. VICO – festival. Waterfront Theatre, Vancouver. June 6

Eve and As Ordinary as Stars – Heather Pawsey. Performed as part of Unheard during Indie Opera Week.  CMC. June 25

Under Bleak Skies – Aventa Ensemble. Phillip T. Young, Victoria. February
Four Horses – McGregor Verdejo Hayley – Vancouver Community College, March (Premiere)

Four Horses – McGregor Verdejo Hayley – Sonic Boom, March
One More Way to See – Emily Carr String Quartet. Victoria Symphony New Music Festival. Dave Dunnet Theatre, March. (Premiere)

2018

Klee Wyck Woman–  Emily Carr String Quartet, Victoria and Metchosin
The Stars Have Closed Their Eyes – Instruments of Happiness – Toronto, Montreal, Quebec (Premiere)
Eve and As Ordinary as Stars – Heather Pawsey – Open Space, CMC, Gallery, CapilanoU
held in the hand – Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. VICO – festival in June and on tour in September
As Ordinary as Stars – Helen Pridmore – August, Sound Symposium
Four Directions and Stay Struggling – Tempest Flutes –  Solstice celebration, cemetery
And Birds do Sing – Waterloo Chamber Orchesra, October
Stay Struggling – Driftwood Percussion, Modulus Festival, Roundhouse. November (Premiere)
Breathe, As Ordinary as Stars, Lullaby, Four Directions – Continuum by Redshift.
Neptune – Rachel Iwaasa, Music on Main, Heritage Hall. December 19/20

2017

Uta’s Escape– musica intima. Heritage Hall. March, 2017 (Premiere)

And Birds do Sing – Kingston Symphony
Klee Wyck Woman – Emily Carr String Quartet. ISCM
Under Bleak Skies – Powell River with Bill Linwood PRISMA, Evergreen Theatre, Powell River, June 20, 2017
Le Merle Noir (arrangement) – Standing Wave

2016

Eve, This Love, and As Ordinary as Stars– Helen Pridmore, soprano. University of Saskatoon. September, 2016

Antlers’ Round (lyrics by Fran Slingerland) – member’s of Murray Schafer’s Wolf Project. August 2016 (Premiere)

And Birds do Sing – Allegra Orchestra. St. Phillips Anglican Church, Vancouver. June 2016.

the moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments – iii. holding -(collaboration with CURV: Marci Rabe and Kristy Farkas) – Thin Edge New Music Collective. Maureen Forester Hall, Waterloo, ON. January 2016 (world premiere)

the moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments – iii. holding -(collaboration with CURV: Marci Rabe and Kristy Farkas) – Standing Wave. Pyatt Hall, Vancouver. March 2016

2015

Held in the Hand – Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, Santur and String Quartet. Pyatt Hall, Vancouver. November 14 (Premiere)

Neptune – Rachel Iwaasa, piano. Firehall Theatre, Vancouver. Powell Street festival/Queer Arts Festival. August 1.

Neptune – Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano (with Michael Red, electronics). Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver. April 24, 2015

Neptune – Kristy Farkas, piano. A Place to Listen, Victoria. February 2015

2014

Stolen Materials/Stolen Time – Standing Wave. Pyatt Hall, Vancouver. Nov 20, 2014 (world premiere) 

Max is born! June 28, at home. (world premiere)

Four Directions – Mary Wing, flute. Columbia Lake, Waterloo, ON. Jun 8, 2014 

the tide rises, the tide falls – Vancouver New Music. Orpheum Annex. (world premiere)

Unsilencing – presentation at CNMN FORUM, with sound artist Tina Pearson. University of Calgary. January

 For Dreams of Things that Cannot Be – l’Ensemble Lunatik, Quebec City.

under bleak skies – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver. January 15, 2014

2013

Confluence -written for members of the Wolf Project for R. Murray Schafer on the occasion of his 80th Birthday, SAB Choir. Text by Rae Crossman
July 2013. Indian River. (world premiere)

As Ordinary as Stars (lyrics by Rae Crossman) – Caroline Schiller, soprano. Memorial University of Newfoundland. January 2013 (world premiere)

Seedlings – Saskatoon Symphony Players. Video by Terry Billings

2012

From Hidden Roots  – Aventa (soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). Philip T. Young Theatre, Victoria. September, 2012. 

under bleak skies – Aventa. Vancouver Aquatic Centre. December 4 (world premiere)

Le Merle Noir – Standing Wave (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion). The Cultch, Vancouver. May 2012 (world premiere)

Moments Suspended – Ottawa New Music Creators (flute, bass clarinet, violin, and cello). De La Salle High School, Ottawa, ON. January 2012 (world premiere)