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Jules Léger Prize For New Chamber Music
The Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music is a Canadian contemporary classical music award given to composers in recognition of quality new works of chamber music. Granted annually since 1978 (with the exception of 1984 and 1990 when no prize was given), the prize is won through a competition administered by the Canadian Music Centre. Prior to 1991, the competition had been administered by the Canadian Music Council. History The Jules Léger Prize was founded by Canadian diplomat and statesman Jules Léger in 1978 with the purpose "to encourage Canadian composers to write for chamber music ensembles and to foster the performance of Canadian music by these groups." Works which are eligible for competition must be written for no more than twelve performers and no less than two. Any Canadian citizen and anyone who has lived on Canadian soil for over a year is eligible to compete in the competition. Composers who are awarded the prize receive a trophy designed by the Canadian sculpto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Classical Music
Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music. Newer forms of music include spectral music, and post-minimalism. History Background At the beginning of the twentieth century, composers of classical music were experimenting with an increasingly dissonant pitch language, which sometimes yielded atonal pieces. Following World War I, as a backlash against what they saw as the increasingly exaggerated gestures and formlessness of late Romanticism, certain composers adopted a neoclassic style, which sought to recapture the balanced forms and clearly perceptible thematic processes of earlier styles (see also New Objectivity and Social Realism). After World War II, modernist composers sought to achieve greater levels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Colgrass
Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American-born Canada-based musician, composer, and educator. Life and career Colgrass was born in Brookfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His musical career began in Chicago as a jazz musician (1944–1949). He graduated from the University of Illinois (1954) with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at Tanglewood. He served two years as timpanist in the U.S. Seventh Army Symphony in Stuttgart, then spent eleven years supporting his composition activities as a free-lance percussionist in the city of New York, where his performance experiences included such varied groups as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Recording Orchestra's ''Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky'' series, and numerous ballet, opera, and jazz ensembles. He organized the percussion sections for Gunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Catlin Smith
Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a Canadian composer based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Smith studied composition and theory with Allen Shawn in New York, and with composers Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton, and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; and attended lectures of Morton Feldman, by invitation, in Buffalo, New York. She studied piano with Nurit Tilles and Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and with Kathleen Solose in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also studied harpsichord with Erich Schwandt. She moved to Toronto in 1981, where she produced a series of concerts at Mercer Union Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto's major contemporary music ensembles, from 1988 - 1993. She is a member of the performance collective, URGE. She has given lectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Saint-Denis
Patrick Saint-Denis (born 1975) is a Canadian composer based in Montreal. His works have been performed at music festivals in North America, Europe, and Asia. His composition, ''Les dits de Victoire'', was awarded first prize in the SOCAN young composers competition in 2003 and the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2004. He also won the SOCAN competition in 2002 for his orchestral work, ''Le discours aux animaux'' and received honors for his ''Berceuse pour enfants perdus'' for chamber orchestra and female voice in 2003. Born in Quebec City, Saint-Denis is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Among his principal teachers are Louis Andriessen, Clarence Barlow, and Serge Provost. His works combine music, live audio-visual processing and robotics. References External linksPatrick Saint-Denishis websiteBiography of Patrick Saint-Denis at the Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Morin
Éric Morin (born December 20, 1969) is a Canadian composer. He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his ''D'un Château l'autre'' and the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers which he won twice. His works have been performed by several notable musical ensembles, including the Esprit Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. He has been commissioned to write works by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Life and career Born in Montreal, Morin is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Gilles Tremblay (composer), Gilles Tremblay, He pursued graduate studies at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 1998 where he earned a Master of Music in composition and was a student of Gérard Grisey. He then ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yannick Plamondon
Yannick is a first name that originated in Brittany, France, where the combination of its two Breton language parts, ''Yann (other), Yann'' and ''-ick'', results in the meaning of ''Little John'' or ''Petit Jean'' in French language, French. It is used as a first name mostly for men and is in use, notably, in French-speaking countries like France, (a part of) Belgium, Switzerland (Romandy), Canada (Quebec), and former French African colonies. Notable people with the name 'Yannick' *Yannick (rapper) (born 1978), a French rapper *Yannick Agnel (born 1992), a French swimmer and Olympic champion *Yannick Anzuluni (born 1988), a Congolese basketball player *Yannick Bellon (born 1924), a French film director, editor and screenwriter *Yannick Bisson (born 1969), a French-Canadian actor *Yannick Bolasie (born 1989), a French-Congolese football (soccer) player *Yannick Dalmas (born 1961), a French racing driver *Yannick Dias Pupo (born 1988), Brazilian football (soccer) player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Harman (composer)
Chris Paul Harman (born 19 November 1970) is a Canadians, Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. He grew up in Toronto, attending Maurice Cody Public School, then North Toronto Collegiate Institute. He is currently a Professor of music composition at McGill University. Awards * Finalist, CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers (1986 - the youngest finalist ever) * Winner for "Iridescence", CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers (1990 - youngest composer ever awarded the Grand Prize) * First prize in the under-30 category for Iridescence, International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, France (1991 - first Canadian) See also *List of Canadian composers External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harman, Chris Paul 1970 births Living people Canadian classical composers 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music winners Canadian male classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Ristic
André Ristic (born December 19, 1972) is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work ''Catalogue de bombes occidentales'', the Prix Opus for Composer of the Year in 2002, and the Prix Québec-Flandre in 2003. Life and career Born in Quebec City, Ristic's parents originated from Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ... and Montenegro. He began his professional studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal in mathematics, and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, where he studied piano, harpsichord, and musical composition. His background in mathematics has influenced his work as a music theorist, with a particula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexina Louie
Alexina Diane Louie, (born July 30, 1949) is a Canadian composer of contemporary art music. She has composed for various instrumental and vocal combinations in a variety of genres. She has fulfilled a number of commissions, and her works, which have been performed internationally, have earned her a number of awards, including the Order of Canada and two Juno Awards. Early life and education Louie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned an ARCT in Piano Performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of seventeen while under the tutelage of Jean Lyons—of the Jean Lyons School of Music in Vancouver. Shortly thereafter, Louie received a Bachelor of Music in Music History from the University of British Columbia in 1970. In 1974, she completed her M.A. degree in Composition from the University of California, San Diego.Robb, Peter"Alex Louie's musical journey" ''Ottawa Citizen'', Sep 21, 2013 Career While studying in the Greater Los Angeles Area, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Oesterle
Michael Oesterle (born 1968) is a German-born Canadian composer currently living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ..., Canada. His compositions have been performed by classical ensembles throughout Canada and internationally. Early life and education Oesterle was born in Germany. He immigrated to Vancouver British Columbia as a teenager. He attended the University of British Columbia where he studied composition, and later earned a master's degree from Princeton University."Michael Oesterle" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', by Simon Bertrand, 14 June 2011 Career ...
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Omar Daniel
Omar Daniel (born 1960) is a Canadian composer and pianist, and an associate professor of composition at the University of Western Ontario, Western University. Early life and education Daniel was born in Toronto, Ontario, of Estonian descent. He earned a Doctor of Music from the University of Toronto where he was a music composition pupil of John Beckwith (composer), John Beckwith. Career In 1997 he won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his ''Zwei Lieder nach Rilke'', a work for soprano and chamber ensemble. At about that time he created a number of compositions for guitar which were performed at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and recorded by classical guitarist Rachel Gauk. In 2003, he taught musical theory and practice at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto.Ezra Schabas. There's Music In These Walls: A History of the Royal Conservatory of Music'. Dundurn; 1 September 2005. . p. 242. In 2007 he received the K.M. Hunter Artists Award for classical music. He served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Hatzis
Christos Hatzis ( el, Χρήστος Χατζής; born 1953) is a Juno Award-winning Greek-Canadian composer. Many of his compositions are performed internationally, and he is a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Early life and education Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece and received his early music instruction at the Volos branch of the Hellenic Conservatory. He continued his musical studies in the United States, first at the Eastman School of Music (B.M 1976 and M.M 1977) and later at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (Ph.D. 1982). His composition teachers include Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Samuel Adler, Russell Peck, Joseph Schwantner and Warren Benson. Career Hatzis immigrated to Canada in 1982 and became a Canadian citizen in 1985. He composed music related to Christian spirituality, particularly his Byzantine heritage, and the Canadian Inuit culture. In addition to composing and teaching, Hatzis has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |