Michael Horwood’s Thoughts on ECCS CD:
CULT FIGURES: Electroacoustic Music from Canada (Centrediscs CD-13908)
This collection of electroacoustic music consists of eleven works spanning the years between 1966 and 2008 by ten Canadian composers. All composers are members of the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society (ECCS) and the Canadian Music Centre (CMC). Due to the nature of the sponsoring, funding and philosophies of both organizations, all the composers included needed [...]
Bach Suite Project: Josephine van Lier performs Bach’s 6 suites for solo cello on 4 different cellos
The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are acclaimed as some of the greatest works ever written for solo cello and some of the greatest of all music. Cellist Josephine van Lier, one of Edmonton’s busiest and most versatile musicians, performs all Six Suites on her four different instruments: contemporary wooden cello, [...]
Concert – Works by Biber, Haydn and O’Carolan
George Andrix – Baroque Violin Josephine van Lier – Baroque Cello Piccolo Judy Loewen – Harpsichord 25 Wednesday, noon, McDougall United Church (101 Street and Macdonald Drive) Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Trio in g minor (Hoboken XV:1) I Moderato II Menuet III Presto Heinrich I. F. Biber (1644-1704) Sonata Violino Solo Representativa I Allegro II Nachtigal [...]
New CD Cult Figures Released on Centredisques!
We are pleased to announce the most recent recording issued from the catalogue of the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society (our thirteenth). It will prove to be a most unique disc on several fronts. First, the recording features eleven electroacoustic works crafted exclusively by ten composer-members of the Society. Second, these selections span nearly the entire [...]
Michael Horwood’s Thoughts on ECCS CD:
Devil’s Dance
I’m amazed, but then not really surprised, at a wonderful collection like this with the absence of any 12-tone or serial music. [From the editor: Piotr Grella- Mozejko's Organigami (Music for Aysha) is written in twelve-tone technique from start to end.] It just shows how far music has come in 30 years. I’m not lamenting [...]
New Work by Ryan Purchase Premièred in the US!
The US première of the Ryan Purchase 2006 piece “Opacity No. 1″ is coming up! If you have an internet connection (and clearly you do), you can attend! Chris Kallmyer, a graduate student trumpeter at the CalArts School of Music in Valencia, California, will be performing the work as part of his MFA Graduation recital. [...]