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Alex Eddington completed a Master’s degree in composition at the University of Alberta; his undergraduate training was in his native Toronto. He has attended workshops for young composers including the National Arts Centre Young Composers’ Programme in 2006; in summer 2008 he will participate in the Quatuor Bozzini “New Creations” in Montréal.

Mr. Eddington’s works have been commissioned and performed in Canada and internationally by established artists and presenters, including the Talisker Players, members of l’Orchèstre de la Francophonie Canadiènne, the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet, the Toronto Chamber Choir, Vox Novus, and the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society, as well as a younger generation of professionals such as Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, Jeremy Maitland, Catherine Carignan and the Silver Birch String Quartet. In 2008, his orchestral work Reiteration was the winner of the Orchestras Mississauga Emerging Composer Competition. He received a 2004 SOCAN award for his monodrama Death to the Butterfly Dictator!, and in the same year, Dance Attack! for orchestra was a finalist in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s “New Creations” competition. Mr. Eddington is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society.

Alex stay in the theatre-rich city of Edmonton led him to musical collaboration with local actors and dancers in both casual improvisation experiments and full theatrical productions. His collaborative work has been presented by Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, The Works Art and Design Festival, the InterFEAR festival, the Expanse movement festival, and the University of Alberta Department of Drama. In 2005 Alex Eddington was the recipient of a SSHRC grant for a project exploring new intersections of music and theatre/dance. Mr. Eddington has toured the Canadian Fringe festival circuit as an actor in his own original scripts: WOOL (2006) and The Fugue Code (2007). His new music-theatre work, Old Growth for two actor/musicians, will be performed in summer 2008.

As a choral singer, Alex Eddington has performed with Pro Coro Canada, the Edmonton Opera Chorus, the Toronto Chamber Choir, and the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers. He has also appeared as an improvising musician – on accordion, piano and toy instruments – with Mile Zero Dance and The Naked Band. Mr. Eddington has been a conductor for two concert bands, a CD project by singer/songwriter Mike Ford, and for numerous performances of his own works. He has appeared as a concert narrator with members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and has curated concerts of composed and improvised music by emerging Canadian musicians.

Alex Eddington is based in Toronto, Canada.
 

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