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Peter Anthony Togni (born September 12, 1959) is a freelance Canadian composer and broadcaster based in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the largest municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of the 2021 Census, the municipal population was 439,819, with 348 ...
. "Togni's music is deeply felt, simply put, well-crafted and irradiated by a personal sense of the divine."
Biography
Togni's music is spiritually rooted and contemplative. It ranges from the ethereally quiet to the explosive outer limits of contemplation. Togni has been heard everywhere from Toronto's Roy Thompson Hall, the Moscow Conservatory, the Oriental Arts Centre in Shanghai, to the Vatican in Rome for Pope John Paul II. His music is broadcast regularly in Canada on the
CBC, as well as internationally, including on the
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, Classic FM,
Deutsche Welle and
Radio France
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.
Togni's works have been released on XXI Records, CBC Records, Hänssler Classics, Warner Classics UK. In 2010 his Lamentatio Jeremiah Prophetae, a concerto for bass clarinet and choir, was recorded by bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly and the
Elmer Iseler Singers
The Elmer Iseler Singers is a professional chamber choir based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The twenty-voice choir, conducted by Artistic Director ''Lydia Adams'', founded by Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979, is one of Canada’s leading choral ensemb ...
and released on the
ECM label, produced by Manfred Eicher. In October 2012 the Togni Trio's latest recording ''Spatium'' was released, and in 2013 Togni's latest solo CD, ''Piano Alone'', came out.
In 2006, Togni's Illuminations (a concerto for bass clarinet and string orchestra) was nominated for a
Juno
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award in the category Classical Composition of the Year. 2011 brought two nominations for Togni's Lamentations of Jeremiah, for an East Coast Music Award in the Classical Music category, and for a
Juno
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award in the category Classical Composition of the Year. The work was also a finalist in 2010 for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. In 2012, Togni's new work Missa Liberationis, the result of a project with the Latvian Youth Choir BALSIS was published by
Musica Baltica
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, and was premiered in Canada by Pro Coro Canada. Also in 2012, Togni was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal in honour of contributions made to Canadian community life.
The ''Responsio'' project for bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly and vocal quartet premiered in July 2013 and the recording was released in 2015 on
ATMA Classique
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, to critical acclaim. The work is also the grand prize winner of the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. ''Warrior Songs'', a work for percussionist Jerry Granelli and choir premiered in Bolder Colorado in 2014, with its Canadian premiere taking place in March 2015 with the Elmer Iseler Singers in Toronto. Work on ''Isis and Osiris, Gods of Egypt'', an opera based on the libretto of Sharon Singer and in collaboration with Opera in Concert is underway, with a planned premiere for April 2016.
Togni is also a pianist, improviser and organist. He has given many solo recitals across Canada and in Europe. In July 2015, Togni took part in the 53rd
Magadino
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International Organ Festival in Switzerland, which was co-founded by his late father,
Victor Togni. He has also worked extensively in Canada as a church musician. He was music director at
St. Mary's Cathedral in Calgary, an organist at
St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and organist and choir master at
St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica in Halifax. He was the organist in the world-renowned trio Sanctuary alongside bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly and cellist Christoph Both. Sanctuary, which was based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was formed in 1999, and performed across Canada and around the world, at venues such as St. John's, Smith Square in London, Saint- Séverin in Paris and the
Dome Cathedral in
Riga, Latvia
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. In 2008 they were the first Canadians since Glenn Gould to play at Philharmonic Hall, in St. Petersburg Russia. They have also made several recordings including their acclaimed CD ''The heart has its reasons'' for Warner Classics UK, and their most recent CD ''Estuary'', was released in 2015. The Togni Trio, a jazz ensemble with drummer Malcolm Gould and bassist George Koeller, performs throughout Canada and the United States, and has two released recordings. Togni also regularly collaborates with artists such as jazz saxophonist
Mike Murley
Mike Murley (born December 12, 1961) is a Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer from Windsor, Nova Scotia who was a member of the Shuffle Demons from 1984 to 1989 and Time Warp.
Education
He graduated from the music program at York University ...
and cellist
Jeffrey Ziegler.
Togni was born in Pembroke, Ontario in 1959, and is the son of organ master Victor Togni. He spent his early years in Toronto, where he attended
St. Michael's Choir School
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. He later went on to study at the
University of British Columbia
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in Vancouver, studying organ with Frederick Geoghegan and composition with
Stephen Chatman
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Early life and education
Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota ...
. He went on to study organ and improvisation in Paris, France, with the great French organist
Jean Langlais
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Biography
Langlais was born in L ...
. Togni also studied composition with
Allain Gaussin
Allain Gaussin (born 6 November 1943) is a noted French composer.
Gaussin was born in Saint-Sever-Calvados, Normandy. He is a laureate of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) where he studied with Olivier ...
at the
Schola Cantorum in Paris where he was awarded first prize in composition.
For over twenty years, Togni has also been a broadcaster, hosting radio programs for
CBC Radio 2, including
That Time of the Night, the award-winning
Stereo Morning
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,
Weekender and
Choral Concert. He currently resides in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Nominations and awards
* 2006 - Illuminations - Juno nomination; Classical Composition of the Year
* 2006 - The Heart Has Its Reasons; East Coast Music Award nomination; Classical Recording of the Year
* 2010 - Lamentations of Jeremiah - Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award Finalist
* 2011 - Lamentations of Jeremiah - East Coast Music Award nomination; Classical Recording of the Year
* 2011 - Lamentations of Jeremiah - Juno nomination; Classical Composition of the Year
* 2012 - Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Medal
* 2014 - Responsio - Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award Grand Prize Winner
* 2016 - Estuary; CD by the Sanctuary Trio - East Coast Music Award nomination; Classical Recording of the Year
* 2016 - Responsio; CD - Juno nomination; Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
Selected works
Choral
* ''When the Dawn Appears'' (1989) – Choir SSAA
* ''Create in me a clean heart'' (1990) – Choir SATB
* ''Ave Verum'' (1994) – Choir SATB
* ''Psalm 98'' (1997) – Choir SATB, TTBB
* ''Antiphon'' (1999) – Choral version SATB
* ''Totus Tuus'' (2001) – Choir SATB
* ''Grandmother Moon'' (2001) – Double Choir SATB & soloists
* ''Missa Domus Mea'' (2001) – Choir SATB
* ''Sacer Dotes Domini'' (2001) – Choir SATB
* ''Prayer of St. Francis'' (pre-2002) – Choir SATB and Piano (Kellman Hall)
* ''Of the Fathers Love Begotten'' (2003) – Choir SATB
* ''Lamentations of Jeremiah'' (2007) – Choir SATB and Bass Clarinet
* ''Cantico delle Creature'' (2007) – Choir SATB and Organ
* ''Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas'' (2008) – Parish Mass, Congregational setting and Organ
* ''Requiem et Lux'' (2009) – Mixed choir
* ''Lux Aeterna'' (2010) – Gamelan & six voices
* ''Warrior Songs'' (2014) – Percussion and mixed choir
* ''Da Pacem Domine'' (2014) - From Warrior Songs
* ''Earth Voices" (2014) - Choir
* ''The Final Word is Love" (2015) - SATB a capella
Instrumental
* ''Tenebrae Litanies'' (1991) – String Orchestra
* ''Hymns of Heaven and Earth'' (String Quartet No.1) (2001) – String Quartet
* ''Caspian Blue'' (2004) – Piano and String Quartet
* ''Lamentations of Jeremiah'' (2007) – Choir SATB and Bass Clarinet
* ''O Magnum Mysterium'' (2007) – Solo Piano
* ''Solstice Nights'' (2008) – Oboe D'Amore and String Quartet
* ''Piano Verses'' (2008) – Solo Piano
* ''Personal Legend'' (String Quartet No.2) (2008) – String Quartet
* ''Seven Preludes'' (2010) – Organ
Albums
* ''Sea Dreams'' Luminous Voices; Leaf Music (2020)
* ''Estuary'' Sanctuary Trio; Independent (2016)
* ''Responsio''; ATMA classique (2015)
* ''Piano Alone'' Peter-Anthony Togni; Independent (2013)
* ''Spatium'' The Togni Trio; Independent (2013)
* ''Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophet''
Elmer Iseler Singers
The Elmer Iseler Singers is a professional chamber choir based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The twenty-voice choir, conducted by Artistic Director ''Lydia Adams'', founded by Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979, is one of Canada’s leading choral ensemb ...
, Jeff Reilly; ECM (2010)
* ''The heart has its reasons'' Sanctuary; Warner Classics UK (2005)
* ''Christus'' St. Mary's Basilica Gallery Choir (2004)
* ''Refuge'' Floating Senses; Hanssler Classics (2003)
* ''Puer natus in Bethlehem, Alleluia!'' Elmer Iseler Singers; CBC Records (2003)
* ''Sanctuary'' Sanctuary; XXIII Records (2001)
* ''Shimmeree'' Peter Togni Trio; Atma Records (1997)
References
External links
Peter A. Togni biographyat the
Canadian Music Centerla schola cantorumSanctuaryElmer Iseler Singers
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1959 births
Living people
Canadian classical composers
Classical music radio presenters
CBC Radio hosts
Musicians from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Musicians from Ontario
People from Pembroke, Ontario
Sacred music composers
Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni
University of British Columbia alumni
Canadian male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
20th-century Canadian composers
20th-century Canadian male musicians
21st-century Canadian male musicians