Birth: December l4, l945--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
E-mail: ron.hannah1@gmail.com
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NATIONALITY
Canadian
EDUCATION
University of Alberta
- B.Sc. (1969) Chemistry
- B.Mus. (1973) Music Theory and Composition
- M.Mus. (1975) Music Composition
- Education Diploma (1980)
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (1997)
- Several short courses in computer networking
AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
2006 - Published travel writer: see http://www.escapeartist.com/ (Enter "hannah" in the search box on the home page)
- PRO Canada (now SOCAN) from l972 to present
- Member of Da Camera Singers from l973 to 1998.
- Sessional Instructor with Dept. of Extension, University of Alberta, l975/6
- Instructor of Harmony and Ear Training, Red Deer College, l977/8
- Founding member of Alberta Composers' Association, 1977
- Treasurer of Alberta Composers' Association l977/78 and l980/81
- Founding president of Tonus Vivus Society (formerly Edmonton Composers' Concert Society, and current member
- Editor of ECCS newsletter from 1985 to 1996
- Founder and owner of Composer Publications, Edmonton, 1989 to 2000
- Co-founder of Edmonton New Music Festival, 1992
- Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre from April 1993 to present
- Editor of and contributor to "The Albertan Composer", 1994/96
- Editor of "The Alberta New Music Review", 1997
- Entry in "International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory", Vol. 14
- "Five Preludes for Organ" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD, Northern
Arch/Arc du Nord (Spring/94)
- "Concert Piece" for flute and piano recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society
CD, soundland alberta: le pays sonore (1996)
- "Meditation for Cello and Piano" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD,
Brief Confessions (1997)
- "String Quartet #1" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert
Society CD, Stringtime (performed by the Penderecki String Quartet)
- "Piano Sonata #1 (Visions of Nothingness)" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert
Society CD, Visions of Nothingness (performed by Roger Admiral)
- "Ballade" for piano solo, recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD,
ECCSpressions, (performed by Sylvia Shadick-Taylor)
- Arrangements of rock songs on Vitamin Records CDs: * (see note below)
"The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M."
"The String Quartet Tribute to Led Zeppelin"
"Strung Out on U2"
"Strung Out on Jagged Little Pill" *
- Adjudicator of Olds & District Kiwanis Festival (Creative Music section), Olds,
Alberta, March, 2001.
- Author of Vietnam travelogue published on http://www.escapeartist.com, Aug. 2006
2010 - Instructor of Music (2 non-credit courses) at University of the Fraser Valley, Chilliwack, BC., Canada
2010 - Singer in Chilliwack Symphony Chorus, Chilliwack, BC., Canada
- Musical compositions published by Conners Publications, Natchitoches, LA, USA; and
Grace Under Press, Toronto, Canada
- Music commissions from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Alberta Choral Federation,
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, among others.
INTERESTS
Music (composer and collector of modern CDs)
Reading (classics, biography, history)
Astronomy (former owner of 4.5" newtonian reflecting telescope)
Travel - backpacking in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, China, Indonesia and
Malaysia; crossing Australia in a camper van; residence for a year in England and
travels in the USA and in W.Europe; residence in Guatemala for 18 months.
( * Please do not purchase CDs from Vitamin Records in Los Angeles.
They are years behind in paying me (and perhaps others) royalties for our
String Quartet arrangements. They do not respond to my emails or letters, or
to those of my lawyer. Better yet, visit their site - http://www.vitaminrecords.com -
and tell them why you are not buying.)
