Join Spiritus Chamber Choir on a journey to 17th century France, to hear some of the greatest music of the time. Marc-Antoine Charpentier, born the year of Monteverdi’s death, lived in the shadow of his great contemporary Jean-Baptiste Lully. His music, however, was written with both an elegance and dramatic joie-de-vivre that is characteristic of French music to this day. Calgary audiences will be thrilled by the beauty and grace of Charpentier’s Mass for 8 voices, violins & flutes. The dramatic string playing will be handled by some of Alberta’s finest baroque musicians and guests from across the country.

Tickets:
$30 Adults | $25 Students/Seniors

Saturday, March 17, 2012; 8pm
Knox United Church,
506, 4th St. SW, Calgary

I will be premiering my new work for violin and live electronics at the Université de Montréal.
The piece is written for the wonderful Andréa Tyniec.

January 27, 7:30 2012
Salle Claude Champagne
Faculté de Musique
Université de Montréal

À l’approche de Noël, nous vous invitons à un concert unique où les chants mystiques et sacrés du Moyen-Âge font office d’une messe signée Constantinople. Puisés dans le vaste répertoire des musiques du bassin méditerranéen, ces chants sont dédiés à la vierge Marie et nous rappellent l’esprit d’union entre ces différentes traditions. Missa Mystica revisite quelques-unes des plus belles pages des manuscrits des Cantigas de Santa Maria, des hymnes syriaques et byzantins et des lamentations de la Vierge.

KIYA TABASSIAN – sétar, voix
ZIYA TABASSIAN – percussion
PIERRE-YVES MARTEL – vièle
DIDEM BASAR – kanun, harpe médiévale
TERRI HRON – flûtes à bec
SAVINA YANNATOU – chant

LUNDI 19 décembre 2011, 20 h
Salle Pierre-Mercure
300 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Est
Montreal, QC H2X 3X6
(514) 987-4691
Subway: Station Berri-UQAM

Come hear this wonderful project on gambist Pierre-Yves Martel’s idea of the baroque: Plans d’immanence

20:00, Saturday, December 3 & 4
Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur
100, rue Sherbrooke Est
[métro Sherbrooke + autobus 24 Ouest / métro Saint-Laurent + autobus 55 Nord]
Montréal, Québec
514-872-5338

Come hear this wonderful project on gambist Pierre-Yves Martel’s idea of the baroque: Plans d’immanence

20:00, Saturday, December 3 & 4
Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur
100, rue Sherbrooke Est
[métro Sherbrooke + autobus 24 Ouest / métro Saint-Laurent + autobus 55 Nord]
Montréal, Québec
514-872-5338

Here it is! The premiere of the second instalment of Bird on a Wire. Take a look at the project here. We are kindly hosted by the Electronic Music Foundation and the Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference.

Tuesday, June 14
8pm
Renee Weiler Concert Hall
Greenwich House Music School
New York City

I’m very pleased to participate in a concert of pieces that Peter Swendsen wrote around his Norwegian residency in 2007-2008.
The piece he wrote for me isBefore Frozen Fog, which can be found on my Bird on a Wire recording.

Sound of Mu, Markveien 58, Oslo
8 pm, May 25, 2011

I’ll be presenting my new piece Moon Rabbit at the Université de Montréal. This piece integrates the “bowsense” motion sensor I have been developing with NoTAM.

May 18, 7 pm
Salle Serge Garant
Faculté de Musique
Université de Montréal

I’ll be playing my new piece Moon Rabbit as well as Chamber by WL Altman at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn in May. I’ve been invited by Andrew Stewart, who will be premiering a number of works for the T-Stick. It should be a fun show!

Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, Brooklyn
8 pm, Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A new work for fixed media exploring the sound of sand, rocks and seashells I’ve collected over many years.

Salle Claude Champagne
Faculté de Musique, Université de Montréal
19:30, Thursday, April 28, 2011

The extraordinary pianist Luciane Cardassi will present my new work AhojAhoj for piano and fixed media at The Banff Centre for the Arts.
Rolston Hall
7:30pm

I am going back to Oslo to work with Hans Wilmers at NOTAM on the bowsense controller. Hopefully we’ll be ready for a small presentation at the end of our week of work together!

I’ll be playing my new acousmatic piece, Ptak Ohnivak, at the Université de Montréal.
Salle Claude Champagne
Saturday, January 22
7:30 pm

I have been invited to play with Juan Parra Cancino at the AiMaako Festival in Valdivia and Santiago, Chile. We will be playing GeoAves by Juan and premiering my new work, calls.

October 9, 8 pm
Teatro Municipal Lord Cochrane
Valdivia, Chile

October 14, 8 pm
Auditorio Funación Telefónica
Santiago, Chile

A concert of Renaissance music around the much-loved renaissance chanson Susanne un Jour.

Scona Chamber Singers
John Brough, conductor
Terri Hron, recorders

Sunday, September 19th at 3 pm
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
10037 – 84 Avenue, Edmonton
Tickets $15/$10

I’ll be playing Bach’s second Brandenburg concerto with trumpet player Jens Lindemann and the Edmonton Symphony.

7:30 pm, Wednesday, September 15
Winspear Centre
Sir Winston Churchill Square, Corner of 99th Street and 102 Avenue, Edmonton

Luciane Cardassi plays undressing a past at the Sonnez-Ici Festival in Montreal

7:30 pm, Thursday, August 19
Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal
4750 Henri Julien

Performing Rodrigo Cadiz’s piece
eRecorder
at ICMC 2010

8 pm, Saturday, June 6
SUNY Stony Brook
more details TBA

I will be working with the researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Technology in Music and the Arts (NoTAM) on a new controller.
Lectures and the concert will be posted soon!

SOUNDS UNLIKELY (ON/BC)

This concert features new works new works for Western and Asian instruments by Peter Hatch (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Marci Rabe (Vancouver); featuring Red Chamber’s Mei Han and Guillian Liu, and me.

It’s part of the Sonic Tonic series.
Thursday, April 22 at 8 pm
ScotiaBank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes for the whole series also available