The Lost Words - Elektra Women's Choir
Mar
8
to Mar 9

The Lost Words - Elektra Women's Choir

  • Pacific Spirit United Church (map)
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Repeat performance of The Lost Words: a Spell Book

Music by 10 Canadian composers including “Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington

Text and images by Robert MacFarlane

Text and images by Robert MacFarlane

20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers

World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington

The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane

Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith 

Elektra Women’s Choir

Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director

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Look Up - KC VITAs choir performing "A Present From a Small Distant World"
May
31
to Jun 9

Look Up - KC VITAs choir performing "A Present From a Small Distant World"

  • Arvin gottlieb planetarium (map)
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Join KC VITAs and the Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium for "Look Up" as they combine the fruits of the composer's labor with the views and phenomena that inspired them. This unique and immersive experience will have viewers traveling through the galaxies while enjoying live, brand new choral music by some of Kansas City's finest singers.

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Podium 2024 interest session: Drama Games for Choirs (virtual)
May
17
9:00 AM09:00

Podium 2024 interest session: Drama Games for Choirs (virtual)

In this energetic and interactive session, participants will learn many quick activities to inject energy and focus into rehearsals. This collection of theatre games by Augusto Boal and Viola Spolin - as well as "ear cleaning" activities by composer R. Murray Schafer - has been handpicked and adapted for use with choirs of any age. Circle games, partner games, improv structures and listening challenges: all of these can build musical skills and confidence - and they are FUN. Participants will receive a bilingual handout with game instructions and additional resources.

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The Lost Words U.K. Tour! - Elektra Women's Choir
Jun
19
to Jun 23

The Lost Words U.K. Tour! - Elektra Women's Choir

U.K. Tour of The Lost Words: a Spell Book

Music by 10 Canadian composers including “Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington

Text and images by Robert MacFarlane

Text and images by Robert MacFarlane

20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers

World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington

The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane

Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith 

Elektra Women’s Choir

Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director

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i Choristi Chamber Choir performs "A Present From a Small Distant World"
May
28
7:30 PM19:30

i Choristi Chamber Choir performs "A Present From a Small Distant World"

Canadian premiere!

On this unique evening, appreciate the insights of our masterful tour guide Dr. Sharon Morsink, as she ushers us through her world of astrophysics in a series of captivating mini-lectures. 

Complement the experience with transcendently beautiful music selections that were inspired by the same awe-inspiring extra-terrestrial subjects. 

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Toronto Consort: Celestial Revolutions
May
3
to May 4

Toronto Consort: Celestial Revolutions

  • Trinity St. Paul's United church (map)
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The heavens changed and astronomer Tycho Brahe was the first to notice. Join us for an exploration of his fascinating life and times, with a world premiere of a new commission by Canadian composer Alex Eddington, featuring cymbalom master Richard Moore, actor and singer (baritone) Olivier Laquerre, and direction by Tyler Seguin.

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The Lost Words - world premiere - Elektra Women's Choir
Oct
1
to Oct 2

The Lost Words - world premiere - Elektra Women's Choir

  • Pacific Spirit United Church (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

World premiere!

“Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington

The Lost Words: a Spell Book

Text and images by Robert MacFarlane

20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers

World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington

The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane

Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith 

Elektra Women’s Choir

Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director

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"What is Passion?" - world premiere by Phoenix Chamber Choir
Oct
23
7:30 PM19:30

"What is Passion?" - world premiere by Phoenix Chamber Choir

  • Pacific Spirit United Church (map)
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The opening concert of our 2021-2022 season will feature repertoire performed with the intention to evoke a passionate emotional response in both the performer and listener. The world premiere of a commissioned work by Canadian composer Alex Eddington will highlight the collaborative nature of Phoenix.

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"Franz Ferdinand Must Die" - composer / sound designer
Jul
18
to Aug 25

"Franz Ferdinand Must Die" - composer / sound designer

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Alex Eddington composed music and sound design for Franz Ferdinand Must Die, a new solo show by Adam Bailey of Still Your Friend productions (Adam Bailey is on Fire, The Life Henri, Adult Baby Cupid, Dirty Little Coward: The Assassination of Robert Ford).

Franz Ferdinand Must Die is travelling to 3 Fringe festivals in Summer 2019: Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

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Adam Scime performs "The Opera Game" for speaking pianist (left hand only) - world premiere
Jun
5
7:30 PM19:30

Adam Scime performs "The Opera Game" for speaking pianist (left hand only) - world premiere

Adam Scime is premiering new Canadian pieces for left-hand piano,.

In my piece “The Opera Game” Adam talks and plays his way through translations of a famous chess game into music, as it becomes increasingly detailed and dramatic.

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"gibbons vs. Gibbons" - presented by Spectrum Music
Apr
6
8:00 PM20:00

"gibbons vs. Gibbons" - presented by Spectrum Music

Alex Eddington’s string quartet piece gibbons vs. Gibbons will receive a second performance by the Odin Quartet in a concert presented by Spectrum Music in Toronto on Saturday, April 6.

“Jests in Time” is a concert of music cross-pollinating with comedy, so this piece - in which a very serious Renaissance duet for viols (by Orlando Gibbons, naturally) is attacked and invaded by a pair of swooping, whooping gibbon apes - is a natural fit.

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TILESCAPES for all-ages/abilities choir and ambient soundscape (world premiere)
Mar
7
6:00 PM18:00

TILESCAPES for all-ages/abilities choir and ambient soundscape (world premiere)

  • The Ground Floor (Jumblies Theatre) (map)
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Alex Eddington is creating collaborative music and sound design with the all-ages, all-abilities Ground Floor Choir, for the Jumblies Theatre project TILESCAPES.

This world premiere work will feature texts by the participants inspired by tiles they designed throughout the project (see below), vocal works created collaboratively with the choir, and an ambient soundscape generated by ceramic materials.

This performance coincides with the opening of the Tilescapes exhibition, and is FREE to the public.


TILESCAPES

In Fall 2018 ceramics artist, Parker Dirks, came once a week to The Ground Floor and worked with our artists and community participants to create ceramic tiles expressing landscapes mingling fantasy, memory and local surroundings.

These turned out so intricately and magnificently, that we have invited Parker back to finish the project through an intensive residency period at The Ground Floor.

There will be public drop-in sessions, other less formal drop-in options, and a final exhibition and celebration for the finished tiles, including music and stories responding to them.

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"gibbons vs. Gibbons" for string quartet (world premiere)
Mar
1
8:00 PM20:00

"gibbons vs. Gibbons" for string quartet (world premiere)

The Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra presents DRYING INK: Workshop, Concert and Recording project with the Odin String Quartet.

Since September 2017, the Odin String Quartet has been the ensemble-in-residence for the SPO and is made up of New Generation Artists Alex Toskov (violin), Tanya Charles (violin), Laurence Schaufele (viola) and Samuel Bisson (cello).

The concert on March 1 includes world premiere music by established composers:

  • Bruno Degazio

  • Alex Eddington

  • Chris Meyer

  • Ronald Royer

and New Generation composers:

  • Samuel Bisson

  • Kevin Zi-Xiao He

  • Shreya Jha

The Odin Quartet will record most or all of these new pieces for their debut CD album, on the Cambria Master Recordings label and distributed worldwide by Naxos.

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"Eight Dudes" for trumpet - at Festival Contrasti (Trento, Italy)
Feb
2
5:30 PM17:30

"Eight Dudes" for trumpet - at Festival Contrasti (Trento, Italy)

Eight Dudes for solo trumpet (playing 5 different instruments) was selected for Festival Contrasti, and will receive its European premiere on Saturday February 2 in Tento, Italy.

Eight Dudes is a series of virtuosic études for trumpet(s), but the eight movements are also humorous characters - “dudes”, if you will. The trumpet soloist is asked to play five instruments (B-flat trumpet, B-flat cornet, B-flat flugelhorn and B-flat piccolo trumpet, E-flat trumpet) and is often at odds with themselves. The piece was originally premiered by Russell Whitehead in 2005 at the University of Alberta.

You can read the program notes, listen to excerpts, and peruse the score HERE.

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MotoContrario is proud to present the program for the 6th edition of the Festival Contrasti: from February 2nd to March 16th 2019, three weekends of meetings and concerts between Trento and Rovereto (Fondazione Caritro Halls):

– 9 concerts and 6 meetings with composers and performers

– 4 guest ensembles: Windkraft (Alto Adige), Ned ensemble (Desenzano), XYQuartet (Treviso), Suono Giallo (Città di Castello)

– 3 concerts of MotoContrario ensemble

– almost 30 performers involved in the festival

– more than 50 pieces of composers from all over the world (with world, European or Italian premieres)

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"Kyrie on Jesous Ahatonhia" for choir (world premiere)
Dec
15
8:00 PM20:00

"Kyrie on Jesous Ahatonhia" for choir (world premiere)

  • Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (map)
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Voices Choir presents The Mystery of Christmas.

World premiere of Kyrie on “Jesous Ahatonhia” from Missa Brevis on Francophone Carols by Alex Eddington.

A setting of the Latin Kyrie text. The music is re-composed from the tune of Jesous Ahatonhia, otherwise known by its more recent name: the Huron Carol.

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Narrating "The Night Before Christmas" with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra
Dec
15
7:30 PM19:30

Narrating "The Night Before Christmas" with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

Alex Eddington will be joining the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra to narrate “The Night Before Christmas” on this spectacular holiday concert… alongside Roch Carrier reading “The Hockey Sweater”!

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This winter classic returns to Hamilton! Gather with family and friends to share in the warmth and music of the holiday season. Roch Carrier joins Gemma New and the HPO to narrate his classic Canadian tale The Hockey Sweater set vividly to music by Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson Schulte. Audience members are encouraged to wear their favourite hockey jersey.

Gemma New, Conductor
Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Guest Artist
Roch Carrier, Narrator

Featuring holiday favourites and Abigail Richardson-Schulte’s The Hockey Sweater.

Arrive early and join us for the FREE Inside the Music: Pre-concert talk at 6:30pm.


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Why We Fight (music + sound design)
Nov
17
to Nov 18

Why We Fight (music + sound design)

WHY WE FIGHT

Crux Encounter Productions is proud to announce the World Premiere of a new theatre piece that explores the stories of fighting and violence.

Directed by Tyler Seguin

**Original music and sound design by Alex Eddington.

Why do we fight? Why do we love to watch others fight?

 From slapstick to sport, cartoons to armed combat, violence is an integral part of human interaction and storytelling, and yet we seldom recognize it on its own merits. Why is violence so linked to the human experience? Why do we find it satisfying, terrifying, and even amusing? In a series of scenes and sketches, WHY WE FIGHT takes on the challenge of dissecting, slicing, and pummelling our ideas of conflict into passionate, perplexing, and sometimes hilarious submission.

Limited run with only three performances, Why We Fight is being performed at 1300 Gerrard St. E.

SHOW TIMES:
November 17, 2:00pm & 8:00pm
November 18, 2:00pm
The Redwood Theatre, 1300 Gerrard St. E, Toronto

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Clinician and featured composer at Huron MusicFest
Nov
15
7:00 PM19:00

Clinician and featured composer at Huron MusicFest

Alex Eddington is a clinician and featured composer at 2018 Huron MusicFest in Clinton, Ontario.

He will be presenting workshops about composing with students during the day, and conduct his band piece Flight of the Hawks at the evening concert. The piece will be performed by a combined mass band from four high schools in the Avon Maitland board:

  • Central Huron Secondary School (Clinton)

  • F.E. Madill Secondary School (Wingham)

  • Goderich District Collegiate Institute (Goderich)

  • South Huron Secondary School (Exeter)

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Brrronsfonsvurth performs at the Red Nose Cabaret
Oct
12
8:00 PM20:00

Brrronsfonsvurth performs at the Red Nose Cabaret

Alex’s clown acquaintance, Brrronsfonsvurth, returns to the Red Nose Cabaret to share some autumnal discoveries.

Variety of clown and character acts with guest Desolita, hosts Mr. Eff & Lucy and others.  $10.

This event frequently sells out! Reserve ahead:

https://www.facebook.com/events/250100929033281/

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