New Music & Digital Media Festival

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Featuring new works by UVic School of Music composition students.
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UVic Orchestra: New & Now

Ajtony Csaba, conductor

The UVic Orchestra performs Rounds, a new composition by School of Music alumna Cassandra Miller (BMus ’05) commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. Also on the program is Isolation by Shabahang Safari, winner of the 2017 UVic Composers’ Competition, Philippe Leroux’s Envers IV, as well as works selected from a call for short orchestra scores.
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This concert is presented in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with financial assistance from the Government of Canada.

Regular $20 / Seniors $15 / Students & UVic Alumni $10

The Canadian Music Centre presents

BC’s Legacy Composer Film Series

Celebrate the first generation of composers who do something quite revolutionary — write Western concert music on the West Coast of Canada. Made possible by a grant from the BC Arts Council, the films focus on five BC Legacy Composers: Murray Adaskin, Barbara Pentland, Rudolf Komorous, Jean Coulthard, and Elliot Weisgarber.

Regional Director of the Canadian Music Centre in BC, Sean Bickerton, will introduce the films.

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In a UVic Minute: Concert of Miniatures

Heather Roche, clarinet (BMus ’05), Orion Guest
Tzenka Dianova, piano (MMus ’00)
Cuarteto Chroma, Graduate string quartet

A smorgasbord of miniature compositions — some written especially for this occasion — by School of Music alumni.
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Victoria Composers Collective Concert

Members of the Victoria Composers Collective perform works by Collective members Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins (MMus ’15), Christopher Reiche (MMus ’08), Dave Riedstra (MMus ’15), and Kimberley Manerikar (MMus ’17).
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Faculty Chamber Music Series

Made in Victoria: Celebrating our own

UVic faculty and special guests perform works by School of Music faculty and alumni composers including John Celona, Christopher Butterfield, Dániel Péter Biró, Michael Longton, Kristy Farkas (MMus ’04), and Liova Bueno (MMus ’12). Learn more about the works on the program in a pre-concert talk with the composers. In addition, John Celona’s recently released solo electronic music vinyl LP Music on Tilted Surfaces will be available for purchase.
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Regular $25 / Seniors $20 / Students & UVic Alumni $10

Orion Series in Fine Arts presents

Lecture-Recital: Suzanne Ciani, Buchla

Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and composer who found early success with innovative electronic music. Hear Ciani talk about and perform on the Buchla, one of the earliest electronic instruments that helped revolutionize the way electronic music and sound is made.
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Sonic Lab: Diffused, overpainted, bricolated

Pierrot Lunaire is one of Arnold Schoenberg’s most celebrated and performed works. After performing the original movements from Part 1 of Pierrot Lunaire—in two iterations for each—the Sonic Lab ensemble will adapt and re-shape the original material through soundpainting, a live composing/improvisation technique in which the players are guided by gestures from the conductor. Also on the program is Luciano Berio’s A-Ronne, for 5 voices and radiophonic effects.
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Victoria Composers Collective presents

Dissonance

Bassist Dave Riedstra performs Hollas Longton’s (BMus’09) Dissonance.

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UVic Percussion Ensemble

The UVic School of Music Percussion Ensemble, directed by Bill Linwood, performs striking music of our time for solo and ensemble. Highlights will include new music by Victoria composers and Gavin Bryars’ classic work for percussion, One Last Bar Then Joe Can Sing.
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