This concert is a celebratory retrospective concert of the compositions of Professor Emeritus Howard Bashaw. Bashaw’s dense, complex language is brought to life by virtuosic performers across many genres, including chamber, choral, solo piano, and electracoustic sounds.
Friday, Oct. 19, 2019. 7:30 – 9:00 PM
Convocation Hall
Welcome to another fun-filled year of new music and sound art at the University of Alberta! For those new to the department, this website is your one-stop resource for information about the program, concerts, visiting artists, etc. Note that the music department pages are still the official location for general music department info, so please make sure you get to know that site as well. Please note: all dates for student concerts and events are listed in the sidebar (which are subject to change). Please check this site often for updates and reminders!
Composition Forum this year, as usual, will be on the 4th Wednesday of the month, 4-5:30 PM, in the electroacoustic studio (Fine Arts Building 27-D). Please see the sidebar ( ->) for dates, and PUT THEM IN YOUR CALENDAR NOW. For those new to the program, Composition Forum is a chance for all composers, grad, undergrad, faculty, to get together, talk about composition, show work to each other, etc. Or, we might just watch a film. If you are taking composition tutorials, attendance is required, and your teacher may ask you to present work-in-progress.
Please see the Department of Music website for information regarding orientation.
Orientation
MONDAY, April 15, 6 PM, Convocation Hall
Contempo and XiME, featuring acoustic music, electronic music, improvised music, new instruments – created and composed by undergraduate composers and undergrad/graduate improvisors. Please note the time is 6 PM, not 7:30.
TUESDAY, April 16, 12 NOON, Studio 27, Fine Arts Building
Come enjoy an hour of new electroacoustic music created by student composers from Music 445. And Donuts!
TUESDAY, April 16, 7:30 PM, Convocation Hall
New compositions by graduate student composers, featuring Allison Balcetis (saxes) and the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet.
Hope to see some of you there! Please forward to interested parties!
Join Quasar quatuor de saxophones for their residency at the University of Alberta Department of Music! Culminating in their concert on February 5th featuring all Canadian works chosen from a massive nation-wide call:
Émilie Girard-Charest : Bestiaire
Jim O’Leary: Saxophone Quartet
Ofer Pelz: I need to hear it first
Rebecca Bruton: Mammalian Mother Tongues
Jean-Marc Bouchard : Cathédrale-Graffitis (with participation of UofA faculty and students!)
Concert Admission: $20 General, $10 Students and Seniors, Free for Dept. of Music Faculty and Students
All Other Events are FREE
Monday, February 4, 2019
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Please joins us for the end-of-term composers concert featuring undergraduate composers and improvisors. These students have worked hard to create these brand new works. Come out and support them!
Monday, Dec. 10, 7:30 PM
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta North Campus
FREE / Optional donation
Works by:
Active since 2000, the Department of Music’s student ensemble “contempo” will be presenting its annual fall concert on Friday, November 23 at 7:30 PM in Convocation Hall. The concert will feature music composed in the last 40 years by international and Canadian composers. All are welcome to listen to a great variety of sounds, shapes, and dramatic gestures.
Contempo is co-directed by Roger Admiral and Andriy Talpash.
Works include Everything You Own Has Been Taken To A Depot Somewhere, Difficulties Putting Into Practice, Workers Union, Tinkleberries, ÆTher, and more.
Admission is free. All are welcome
Welcome back to a new academic cycle! For those who are new here, this site is maintained by the composition area, and represents the latest information about the current year’s activities. Note that the music department pages are still the official location for general music department info, so please make sure you get to know that site as well. Please note: all dates for student concerts and events are listed in the sidebar (which are subject to change). Please check this site often for updates and reminders!
This year’s new and returning student orientation will be on Thursday, Sept. 30. The current schedule is as follows:
Please join us for an evening of new works for violin + electronics, and string quartet. Featuring works by graduate student composers Micah Hussell, Thomas Merklinger, Will Northlich-Redmond, Deepak Paramashivan, and Mark Segger. Performed by Laura Veeze (violin), Yue Deng (violin), Leanne Maitland (viola), and Amy Nicholson (cello), and directed by Andriy Talpash.
Thursday April 19th
7:30 p.m. Convocation Hall
Admission by donation.
An eclectic concert hosted collaboratively by XiMe (U of A’s Experimental Improvisation Ensemble), Contempo Ensemble, MUSIC 470/570 Composition and Sonic Arts 2, and MUSIC 260 Composition.
Thirteen new works by Undergrad and Graduate composers will be premiered by UofA’s Department of Music ensembles XiMe and Contempo. Also Emily Casavant and Isael Huard will perform their own work, and the unique Will Northlich-Redmond will close the night with a memorable XiMe performance.
Join us! we promise there will be multichannel sound diffusion, fishes, interactive electronics, cats, trios, quartets, new conducting techniques, free improvisation, video scores, and even composers having nightmares with Saturn.
XiMe 2018 is Malaya Bishop, Ashley Weckesser, Sean Borle, Greg Mulyk, Thomas Woodrow Martin, Rio Houle & Jackson Hunter
We are very excited to host a talk this Wednesday (March 21) by the renowned Argentinian conductor and composer Miguel Bellusci, who will perform selections from Kagel’s Die Stücke der Windrose as part of New Music Edmonton’s 7th festival of new music (Holy Trinity Church, 7:30 p.m., March 23). The concert also features a work for string quartet and electronics by our own doctoral composition student Nicolás Arnáez, performed by the Vaughan String Quartet. It finishes with the world premiere of a Kagelian musical theatre piece by Bellusci himself.
Composer Mauricio Kagel, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1931 and passed away in Cologne in 2008, lived the first 26 of his 77 years in his home city and the next 51 in Germany. In Argentina, Kagel was often considered a German composer, while in Germany, although his name had a prestige that broadly overcame his biographical data, he was frequently associated with his native home of Argentina. Elsewhere he often simply placed in the blurry category of “Latin American” composer.
For this talk, entitled “The Argentine in Kagel,” Bellusci will trace the Argentinian elements of his works, an orientation which is essential in understanding his music. Through diverse pieces such as Der Tribun, Mare Nostrum, Die Stücke der Windroseor, Tango alemán, and others, Bellusci will immerse us in Kagel’s unique musical universe, including his formative years in Argentina which shaped his unique and distinctive style. Bellusci will also touch on his own work as it relates to the concert on Friday, March 23, which will be presented as part of Now Hear This!, the 7th New Music Edmonton Festival of New Music.
Talk: Wednesday, March 21, 4-5 PM
University of Alberta, Fine Arts Building, room 2-28
FREE and open the the public
Concert: Friday, March 23, 7:30 PM
Holy Trinity Anglican Church (10037 84 Ave NW)
Buy tickets here (student rates available)
