NAC New Music Ensemble to workshop works-in-progress by two Canadian composers in the Fourth Stage on March 20
March 06, 2006 -
Ottawa, Canada -- Ensembles of musicians from the National Arts Centre Orchestra will workshop new pieces by Canadian composers John Fodi and Dierdre Piper on Monday, March 20 in the NAC’s Fourth Stage. These Professional Reading Sessions are presented by the Canadian Music Centre (Ontario Chapter) in collaboration with the NAC New Music Programme. Admission is free.
John Fodi’s Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d will be performed at 16:00. Dierdre Piper’s Triptych will be performed at 19:30. Each work will be performed twice in full, with an opportunity between performances for discussion amongst the performers and composer.
Dierdre Piper is Associate Professor of Music and Supervisor of Performance and Practical Studies at Carleton University, and holds the position of Organist and Director of Choirs at St Matthias Anglican Church in Ottawa. In addition, she is active as an organist, pianist, and choral conductor. A member of the Canadian League of Composers, she has produced works for various solo, chamber and choral media, and, in addition to regular liturgical performances of church music, has had many public performances and broadcasts of her concert music during the last twenty years.
Triptych for cello and piano by Dierdre Piper will be performed by NAC Orchestra cellist Timothy McCoy and pianist Tea Mamaladze.
John Fodi has had numerous commissions from the CBC, the York Winds, Days Months and Years to Come, Bach 300, and many individual musicians. He has represented Canada at the ISCM in Iceland in 1973 with Concerto for Viola and Two Wind Ensembles and in Boston in 1976 with Concerto a Quattro (String Quartet No.5). He was a founder and the artistic director 1967-70 of the Contemporary Music Group at the University of Toronto and a co-founder with Mickey Cohen of the New Music Group at McGill University. In 1971 he was an active founding member of ARRAY.
Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d by John Fodi will be performed by NAC Orchestra flutist Emily Smethurst, English horn player Francine Schutzman and cellist Leah Wyber, with percussionist Jean-Sébastian Lacombe (winner of the 2004 NACO Bursary) and pianist Jean Desmarais.
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For more information please contact:
Jane Morris, Communications Officer,
National Arts Centre Orchestra
(613) 947-7000, ext. 335
jmorris@nac-cna.ca
