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. [...]
User Accounts – Important
In attempt to keep spammers out our website we’ve created a new registration rules. More often than not spammers provide fake e-mail address while registering. In this scenario they cannot login to the website (will not receive e-mail with temporary password) and their new account is simply clattering users’ database. We had to find ways [...]
New ECCS website is ready! Please read… (important)
Introduction Features Guests New Registered Users Previously Registered Users Introduction The project started over a month ago. It took lot of effort to transfer all data from previous site and introduce new features. Beside better viewing experience the new website offers improved security, privacy, and it is much easier to maintain. We hope that you will [...]
Concert #1: Motion Ensemble: …of loves and deaths…
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 8:00 P.M. Convocation Hall, University of Alberta Tickets $15 (adults) and $10 (seniors and students) available at the door MOTION ENSEMBLE Helen Pridmore, soprano; Karin Aurell, flute; Nadia Francavilla, violin; Richard Hornsby, clarinet; D’Arcy Philip Gray, percussion and electronics; Andrew R. Miller, contrabass Music by: Michael Oesterle, Piotr Grella-Możejko, Ian Crutchley, [...]
Website upgrade
New look and new functionality. Our website gets facelift again. Some services (forums, downloads) are not ready yet, so please be patient. We will post messages about services being restored.
ECCS Music in Vienna
On Sunday, January 20th, 2008, a concert of new music by Lower Austrian and Canadian composers was presented in the Concert Hall of the House of Composition at 11 Ungargasse in Vienna. This is a stately old building with the charming ambience of Old Vienna: high-ceilinged rooms with beautiful chandeliers. Such is the Concert Hall [...]
Enthusiastic Response to Reinhard von Berg’s Recitals in Germany!
The idea for this tour was born in the summer of 2005, when it was suggested to Reinhard to come to Kassel, Germany and play a concert during the 2007 documenta visual arts festival. It took more concrete form in November, 2006, when he was asked to present two concerts as part of the Nu [...]
Suite and Serious: Orchestral Music of Michael S. Horwood
Music: ff Performance: ffff Sound: ffff Liner Notes: ffff Production: fff Design: ff Overall Impression: fff Total Time: 79:16 Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society member composer Michael Horwood has an impressive Curriculum Vitae. A native of Buffalo, New York, USA, he studied musical composition and theory at the State University of New York at Buffalo with [...]