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Colin Labadie holds an undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, where he studied composition with Linda Catlin Smith and Peter Hatch, improvisation and counterpoint with Glenn Buhr, and guitar with Terry McKenna. While at Laurier, Colin’s music was featured regularly on the New Music Concert Series by various ensembles, including the WLU Percussion Ensemble, The Perfect Fifth Brass Quintet, and The Prometheus Guitar Quartet. He often performed on the same series, participating in several premieres of both student and faculty compositions.

Colin’s most recent work has involved interdisciplinary collaborations seeking to raise social awareness. In 2008, he composed the electroacoustic soundscape for Differ/End: The Caledonia Project, an intermedia drama which explored the ongoing land crisis between First Nations reserve and the City of Caledonia, Ontario. He also co-composed Imaginibus Mundi with Peter Hatch and Heather Olaveson, a work commissioned and premièred in conjunction with the Grand Opening of the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LcMc), an outreach program aimed at bringing music into high schools.

Currently, Colin is working towards a Master’s degree from the University of Alberta, where he is studying composition with Scott Smallwood. He continues to perform regularly in several ensembles including Contempo, a chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of New Music, and XImE (eXperimental Improvisation Ensemble).
 

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