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AMP ARCHIVE 2015

2015
DECEMBER 17 – CONCERT:  André RISTIC, piano.  Martigues, FR.     
DECEMBER 14 – PREMIERE:  André RISTIC – Passages, for el guitar, synthesizer, cello, percussion.  Bozar, Brussels, BE.
DECEMBER 13 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – WATT.  Timothy McAllister, baritone saxophone, Doug Perkins, percussion (Constellation, Chicago, IL).
DECEMBER 10 – CONCERT:  André RISTIC, piano – Tarbes, FR.  
DECEMBER 5 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – Fanfares for the Apocalypse (solo version) performed by Philippe Brunet, trumpet.  Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Miami, FL)
DECEMBER 2 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – Vedananupassana, performed by Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez, violin. Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA.
NOVEMBER 23 – PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL – r/evolution (solo saxophone), performance by Tommy Davis, McGill University, Montreal.
NOVEMBER 21 – IMPROVISATION:  Ken UENO –  w/Crystal Pascucci, Tim Perkis, and Pamela Z.  The Room Series, Royce Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
NOVEMBER 16 – LECTURE:  Paul STEENHUISEN – UBC Composer's Forum.
NOVEMBER 14 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – Ed è Subito Sera.  Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar.  New England Guitar Society, Milford, CT.  
NOVEMBER 14 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – Song for Sendai.  Wendy Richman, voice/viola.  OpenICE, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL.
NOVEMBER 14 – PREMIERE:  Bob PRITCHARD – River (河), for guzheng and string quartet.  Pyatt Hall, Vancouver.  ​
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Benny SLUCHIN and Keith HAMEL performing Paul STEENHUISEN's "Anthropo"
NOVEMBER 20 – LECTURE/RECITAL:  Keith HAMEL – Full Circle.  Paul STEENHUISEN – ANTHROPO.  Benny Sluchin, trombone.  University of Alberta.
NOVEMBER 19 – LECTURE/RECITAL:  Keith HAMEL – Full Circle, Paul STEENHUISEN – ANTHROPO.  Benny Sluchin, trombone.  University of Calgary.
NOVEMBER 19 – CONCERT:  André RISTIC, piano – Lille, FR.
NOVEMBER 18 – LECTURE/RECITAL:  Keith HAMEL – Full Circle, Paul STEENHUISEN – ANTHROPO.  Benny Sluchin, trombone.  UBC Noon-Hour Concert Series.
NOVEMBER 17 – LECTURE/RECITAL:  Keith HAMEL – Full Circle, Paul STEENHUISEN – ANTHROPO.  Benny Sluchin, trombone.  University of Victoria.  Orion Visiting Artists.  
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Bob Pritchard (right), with Isabelle Roland, Mark Ferris, Geling Jiang, Dom Ivanovic, and Stefan Hintersteininger (l to r)
NOVEMBER 12 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis (concerto for overtone singer)  Ken Ueno, voice, Alia 
   Musica,  Federico Garcia, cond.  First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, PA.  
NOVEMBER 12 – PERFORMANCE:  Ken UENO – 
Zetsu.  Sound Icon, Gabriela Diaz, solo violin, Jeffery Means, cond.  Boston University’s CFA Concert Hall, Boston, MA.
NOVEMBER 12 – CONCERT:  André RISTIC, piano – Liège, BE.
NOVEMBER 7 – PERFORMANCE:  Keith HAMEL – 
Overdrive.  UBC Symphony Orchestra.  Chan Centre, Vancouver.  
NOVEMBER 4 – LECTURE:  James HARLEY – Exploring sonic continuities on the UPIC.  From Xenakis to the present day.  Rouen, FR.  
NOVEMBER 3 – PERFORMANCE:  James HARLEY – Wild Fruits 2, in 8 channels.  Rouen, FR.  
NOVEMBER 1 – Ken UENO joins AMP.
OCTOBER 28 – PERFORMANCE:  James HARLEY – Music for Instruments, Electronics, and Soundscapes.  Gayle Young, James Harley.  Silence, Guelph.
OCTOBER 26 – PERFORMANCE:  Robin de RAAFF – Four Poems, for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola, and harp.  AxionContinu, Utrecht, NL. 

OCTOBER 24 – PERFORMANCE:  Bob PRITCHARD – Sleep, for SSA choir.  Lyric Singers, New Westminster, BC.
OCTOBER 23 – PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL – Bhavana (solo guitar), performed by Alex Lubet, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, MN.  
OCTOBER 20 – PERFORMANCE:  Robin de RAAFF – Fanfare, for Brass ensemble.  
NedPhoBrass, conductor: Marc Albrecht.  Amsterdam Medisch Centrum (AMC) Amsterdam.
OCTOBER 17 – PERFORMANCE:  Robin de RAAFF – String Quartet No. 2.  Doelenkwartet, De Doelen, Rotterdam.
OCTOBER 17 – PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL – Bhavana (solo guitar), performed by Alex Lubet, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, MN.  

OCTOBER 15 – PERFORMANCE:  Paul STEENHUISEN – Library on Fire.  Performed by Lori Freedman, bass clarinet.  X-Avant X Festival, Music Gallery, Toronto.    
OCTOBER 13 – PERFORMANCES:  Keith HAMEL – Touch, and Heroes in the Seaweed.  Kuandu Arts Festival, Taipei.  
OCTOBER 1 – CD RELEASE:  Robin de RAAFF.  Etcetera Records
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SEPTEMBER 30 – PERFORMANCE:  Gordon FITZELL – Pangaea Ultima, performed by MD7.  ISCM World Music Days, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SEPTEMBER 30 – PREMIERE:  Aaron GERVAIS – Percussion for Apartments: Conga.  Performed by Justin DeHart.  Centro Cultural UFG, Goiânia, Brazil.

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Gordon Fitzell (right), with MD7 conductor Steven Loy. ISCM World Music Days, Ljubljana. photo: Jim Hiscott
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SEPTEMBER 29 – CD RELEASE:  James HARLEY – Spin – Like a Ragged Flock
SEPTEMBER 29 – PREMIERE:  André RISTIC – New Work for Continuum, Toronto.
SEPTEMBER 26 – PERFORMANCE: Robin de RAAFF – “Fanfare”, performed by NedPhO Koper, with Marc Albrecht, conductor. Oosterpark, Amsterdam.
SEPTEMBER 19 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  Operatic Actions.  Copenhagen.
SEPTEMBER 19 – Aaron GERVAIS:  Sensational Revolution.  Performed by Sarah Jo Kirsch and Madeline Hildebrand.  Yukon Arts, Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon.

SEPTEMBER 17/18 – Bob PRITCHARD – Re-wilding the Syrinx,  8-channel sound sculpture with Krista Dragomer.  
Chemical Heritage Museum, Philadelphia, PA
SEPTEMBER 17 – Aaron GERVAIS:  Sensational Revolution.  Performed by Sarah Jo Kirsch and Madeline Hildebrand.  Klondike Institute of Art & Culture.  Dawson City, Yukon.
SEPTEMBER 8 – PREMIERE:  Robin de RAAFF – 
Emily Dickinson Songs. Dutch National Opera and Ballet Lunch Concerts, Amsterdam.  Maria Kowan, mezzo-soprano.
AUGUST 29 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – 
Carmina Chromatico, Conservatorium Maastricht.  Gruppo Montebello, conductor: Henk Guittart.
AUGUST 29 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – Carmina Chromatico, for flute, oboe, clarinet, harmonium, piano, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello & 

    contrabass.  Aula Major Rilduc, Kerkrade.  Gruppo Montebello, conductor: Henk Guittart.
AUGUST 28 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – Un visage d'emprunt, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.  Ballsaal im Alten Kurhaus, Aachen, Germany.  
Osiris Trio and Alan R. Kay, Clarinet
AUGUST 26 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – Emily Dickinson Songs, for mezzo soprano and piano.  Aula Major Rilduc, Kerkrade.  Mezzo-soprano: 
Maria Kowan; Piano: Brian Fieldhouse. 
AUGUST 21 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – Contradictie I, for flute solo.  Aula Major Rilduc, Kerkrade.  Ingrid Geerlings, flute solo
AUGUST 20-30 – Robin de RAAFF:  Composer in Residence, 
Orlando Festival of Chamber Music.  
AUGUST 18 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – 
Contradictie I, for flute solo.  Hilversum (Opium Radio live performance).  Ingrid Geerlings, flute solo
AUGUST 2 – PERFORMANCE : Robin de RAAFF – 
Fanfare, for 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones and Tuba.  Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall, USA, Tanglewood Music Center.  TMC Brass Ensemble 
AUGUST 3 – PREMIERE:  Paul STEENHUISEN – Library on Fire.  Performed by Lori Freedman, Bass Clarinet.  Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival.
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Lori Freedman performing the opening of "Library on Fire"

JULY 24 – PREMIERE:  Aaron GERVAIS – RPSM Songbook.  Canadian Music Centre, Toronto, ON.  
​JULY 12 – PREMIERE:  Gordon FITZELL – r/evolution
 for solo tenor saxophone.  Performed by Tommy Davis.  World Saxophone Congress, Strasbourg, France.
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JULY 10 – CD RELEASE:  Gordon FITZELL, producer – By the Red.  Parma/Big Round Records.  
JULY 9 – PREMIERE:  Bob PRITCHARD – Strength2, for soprano saxophone, dancer, MAX/MSP/Jitter.  World Saxophone Congress, Strasbourg, France.
JUNE 28 – PREMIERE:  Robin de RAAFF – Fanfare, for brass ensemble. Tanglewood Music Center. 10 a.m.. Second performance on August 4, 2015.
JUNE 27-28 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard. L’Autre hiver, opera.  Montpellier. 
JUNE 28 – Robin de RAAFF:  Fanfare, for 3 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba.  Ozawa Hall USA, Tanglewood Music Center.  TMC Brass Ensemble.
JUNE 21 – Bob PRITCHARD: Presenter at Vancouver Jazz Festival panel "Interfaces-Contact Technologies.  
JUNE 19 – James HARLEY: Supercollider Improvisation, w/ Lori Freedman, bass clarinet, Marc Boivin, dance, Communitech, Kitchener.
JUNE 21 – PERFORMANCE: Gordon FITZELL: Bhavana, 1:00PM June 21, 2015 Composer's Voice/Make Music New York concert, International Preschools, 345 
    East 86th Street. Alex Lubet, Steel String acoustic guitar. 
JUNE 20: James HARLEY: Performer, Regatta & Dreamworld Jukebox, City Hall Pool, Kitchener, Between the Ears Festival.
JUNE 19 – James HARLEY: Supercollider Improvisation, w/ Lori Freedman, bass clarinet, Marc Boivin , dance, Communitech, Kitchener.
JUNE 6 – Paul STEENHUISEN:  Copralite Culture & Analysis #1-20.  Kovalis Duo (Roger Admiral and Philip Hornsey.  New Music Edmonton.
JUNE 6 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  Operatic Actions.  Arsonic, Mons.   Sep 19 @Copenhagen
JUNE 4 – PREMIERE:  James HARLEY – New work for concert band.  Ottawa.  
MAY 24 – PERFORMANCES: James HARLEY: Northern India Soundscapes. Paul STEENHUISEN: Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub. CMC Toronto, Open Doors.
MAY 17 – Gordon FITZELL: violence, performed by Standing Wave.  Pyatt Hall, Vancouver.  
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MAY 10 – Paul STEENHUISEN – Pied-à-terre.  New electroacoustic assemblage for the Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy.
MAY 7-8, 15-16 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard. L’Autre hiver, opera.  Antwerp, Ghent.
MAY 3 – Robin de RAAFF:  Percussion Concerto, for percussion solo player and ensemble.  Salle Claude-Champagne, Montreal.  Percussion solo: Julien 
    Grégoire, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.  Lorraine Vaillancourt, Directrice artistique.
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MAY 1 – PERFORMANCES: James HARLEY: Northern India Soundscapes. Paul STEENHUISEN: Frank O. Lunaire #10: Raub. INVISIBLE ORCHESTRA. Hamilton, Ontario. May 2, 10 a.m. 
APRIL 24 – Robin de RAAFF:  Symphony No. 2 "Illumination...Eclipse", for large orchestra.   De Vereeniging, Nijmegen.  125th Anniversary of Het Gelders Orkest, Antonello Manacorda. 
APRIL 24 – Aaron GERVAIS:  Adderall.  Performed by Mobius Trio.  Little Mission Studio, San Francisco, CA.  
APRIL 24-25 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.  El SisteMons.  Théâtre Royal de Mons.
APRIL 25 – Robin de RAAFF:  Symphony No. 2 "Illumination...Eclipse", for large orchestra.  Orpheus, Apeldoorn.  125th Anniversary of Het Gelders Orkest conducted by Antonello Manacorda.
APRIL 23 – Robin de RAAFF:  Symphony No. 2 "Illumination...Eclipse", for large orchestra.  Musis Sacrum, Arnhem.  125th Anniversary of Het Gelders Orkest conducted by Antonello Manacorda.
APRIL 20 – Robin de RAAFF:  Time after Time for chamber orchestra.  Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatia.  Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw.

APRIL 17 – Bob PRITCHARD:  Time Clips, Primitive, performed by Jane Coop.  Ironworks, Vancouver.
APRIL 9 – PREMIERES:  Bob PRITCHARD's Converse, and Keith HAMEL's Heroes in the Seaweed.  Masque, performed by The Nu:BC Collective.  Chan Centre, Vancouver.  
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Nu:BC Collective in rehearsal. Eric Wilson, Corey Hamm, Paolo Bortolussi.
APRIL 6 – Aaron GERVAIS:  Blog Post – Would charging way more for classical albums boost sales? 
APRIL 5 – PREMIERE:  André RISTIC – Attracteur Lasso for piano.  Arsonic, Mons, Belgium.
APRIL 4 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  solo concert.  Arsonic, Mons, Belgium. 
APRIL – PREMIERE:  Gordon FITZELL – r/evolution (tenor saxophone) performed by Tommy Davis, Faculté de Musique, Université de Montréal. April 2015. 
MARCH 28 – PERFORMANCE:  Aaron GERVAIS – Who Made the Inch of Grass.  Performed by Corey Hamm and Nicole Li.  Sonic Boom, Vancouver.  
MARCH 26 – ARTICLE:  Aaron GERVAIS – Sonic Boom composer Aaron GERVAIS stays fearless.  
MARCH – PREMIERE:  Aaron GERVAIS – Longuement me sui tenus, SoundStreams Canada.
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MARCH 17-18 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  ECO european contemporary orchestra Mar 17-18, @ Théâtre le Manège Mons & Flagey Bruxelles
MARCH 17 – James HARLEY:  Trio improvisation with Ken Aldcroft and Joe Sorbara.  Silence, Guelph, Ontario.
MARCH 16 – PRESENTATION:  Aaron GERVAIS – Canadian Music Centre, Toronto.  
MARCH 14 – Gordon FITZELL:  Attends JUNO Awards as nominee for "Classical Composition of the Year", for Magister Ludi.  
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Gordon Fitzell, with Alice Ho and Brian Current.
MARCH 10 – PREMIERE:  Gordon FITZELL – Bliss Point, alto saxophone and e-bow version.  Also, performances of Orb of the Sun, and The Electric Garden.  
    Université de Montréal.  Tommy Davis, saxophone.  Jason Noble, piano.  Gordon Fitzell, live electronics.  
MARCH 6 – Aaron GERVAIS:  Adderall.  Performed by Mobius Trio.  Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA.  
MARCH 2 – CD RELEASE;  Sea and Sky, featuring François Houle and Jane Hayes.  Includes Cyclone, by Keith HAMEL.  Redshift Records.  
FEBRUARY 8 – Gordon FITZELL:  evanescence (chamber ensemble with live electronics) performed by Aventa Ensemble (Bill Linwood, director), University of  
Victoria. 8:00 p.m. 
FEBRUARY 3 – André RISTIC, piano/keyboard.  ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.  Arrangements of Velvet Underground.  Théâtre Royal de Namur.
FEBRUARY 1 – PREMIERE:  André RISTIC – Attracteur Dufaÿ for piano solo.  Maison du peuple, Saint-Gilles, Belgium
JANUARY 30 – PREMIERE:  Bob PRITCHARD – 想家 (homesick). Nicole Li, Erhu, Corey Hamm, Piano.  Barnett Hall, UBC.
JANUARY 30 – CD RELEASE:  Piano and Erhu Project.  PEP Vol. 2, contains Who Made the Inch of Grass, by Aaron Gervais, and Homage to Liu Wenjin, by Keith Hamel.
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Corey Hamm, Nicole Li, Bob Pritchard
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Aaron Gervais at UC Davis.
JANUARY 27 – PREMIERE:  Aaron GERVAIS – new collaborative installation piece Construction at UC Davis along with two other musicians and two visual  artists.
JANUARY 27 – Gordon FITZELL:  Magister Ludi nominated for Classical Composition of the Year at the 2015 Juno Awards.
JANUARY 22 – James HARLEY:  Trio improvisation with Ken Aldcroft and Joe Sorbara.  
JANUARY 20 – Gordon FITZELL radio interview: Outside the Lines, CJSW 90.9 FM in Calgary, with John Reid.
   Gordon FITZELL – Winnipeg launch of CD Magister Ludi : Musique de / Music of Gordon Fitzell (Centrediscs), with Ensemble contemporain de Montréal 
(ECM+).  7:00 p.m., McNally Robinson.
JANUARY 19 – Robin de RAAFF:  Un visage d'emprunt, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano.  Musis Sacrum, Chamber Music Series of HGO, Arnhem, NL.  Piano 
Trio: Osiris Trio with Arno Stoffelsma.
JANUARY 14 – Paul STEENHUISEN interviews Barbara PRITCHARD.  With cameos from Anthony Genge, Ian Crutchley, David Litke, Clark Ross,
 Bob Bauer. 
JANUARY 10 - PERFORMANCES:  Howard BASHAW – Dectych - Neo Alea Fragments and The Quiet, Brief, yet Well-Structured Story (from New Rage for Now 

    Age), Skitter (from Music for Trombone and Piano, Hard Elastic (from Music for Trumpet and Piano), Boogie Demon – Let’s go. what boundaries:  nOwAge pneUmas, University of Alberta.

ONGOING –  Robin de RAAFF: Composer in Residence, The Arnhem Orchestra.
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