Music, Musical performances, Recordings, World premieres
Alex Eddington
(Re)watch the Album Launch!

Alex’s debut album “A Present From a Small Distant World” is now OUT and available!

To celebrate, we held a Virtual Album Launch Party online on Sunday Feb 21.

The event included filmed performances by Kristin Mueller-Heaslip and Jennifer Tran, a new music video of the title track, and chats with everyone who worked on the album.

The complete hour-long event is now available to watch at your leisure on Youtube!

(Re)watch the Album Launch!
Music, Music education, Workshops, Drama, Writing, Creativity
Alex Eddington
Workshops in music, drama and creativity ...

Starting in 2020, Alex Eddington is available for online workshops with your class, ensemble, club or group.

Visit the WORKSHOPS page for details

Workshops for any age, can be tailor-made to your group’s needs.

Workshops in music, drama and creativity available online, starting Fall 2020
Music, Music education, Private lessons
Alex Eddington
Music Lessons now available online

Book private music lessons online with Alex Eddington:

Beginners and Experienced students, ages 5 to adult

Visit the LESSONS page for details

Music Lessons now available online
Commissions, Crowdfunding, World premieres
Alex Eddington
Join Alex in his first-ever Choir Commissioning ...

Composer Alex Eddington is seeking amateur choirs (SATB/SAB/SA/TB/unis.) to join a consortium for the 2019/20 season.

Up to 11 choirs will co-commission a new piece for choir and piano: a setting of Lotte Kramer’s beautiful poem “Boy With Orange (out of Kosovo)”.

Sign-up by July 31, 2019 (NEW DEADLINE) - premiere anytime during the 19/20 season!

Join Alex in his first-ever Choir Commissioning Consortium!
Commissions, Crowdfunding, Music
Alex Eddington
The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning ...

Adam Scime - a wonderful bassist, pianist and composer - broke his right hand, and had to stop playing bass while it heals. But Adam is turning lemons into an exquisite fountain of lemonade! He wants to commission seven Canadian composers - including Alex Eddington - to write new left-hand piano pieces for him to premiere this May.

The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning Project - crowdfunding seven new works by Canadian composers
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"Scintillator" in a new voice

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"Scintillator" in a new voice

It is so remarkable to hear my older music through fresh ears!

Since 2009, "Scintillator" for solo singer (text by email spambot) has been the domain of Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, who not only premiered and toured the piece, but received the spam email at its heart.

Then soprano Heather Pawsey took "Scintillator" and made it her own, for Redshift Music Society's UNACCOMPANIED video series. Hers is a grounded interpretation with surprising suddenness in the transitions - bringing out the beauty of the spam-wrought lines, then teleporting somewhere impossible…

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gibbons vs Gibbons - hilarious new music video released!

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gibbons vs Gibbons - hilarious new music video released!

Swoop-ga-woop!

Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra just shared a hilarious new music video of my piece "gibbons vs Gibbons" starring the Odin Quartet.

Alex Toškov (who also edited the video) and Tanya Charles Iveniuk struggle to play through a viol duet by English Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons, as a pair of white-cheeked gibbon apes (voiced on cello and viola by Samuel Bisson and Veronica Lee) sing, swoop down and swat them. See my full program notes below the video…

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Podcast feature on Odin Quartet album, including "gibbons vs. Gibbons"

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Podcast feature on Odin Quartet album, including "gibbons vs. Gibbons"

The SPOGreatMusic podcast just released an episode profiling the Odin String Quartet’s album project. Host Daniel Mehdizadeh spoke with Odins Samuel Bisson and Alex Toskov about the repertoire, and the composers talk about their pieces in their own words.

My piece gibbons vs. Gibbons will be on the album, and I spoke about it (in an animated manner!) for the podcast.

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(Re)watch the Album Launch!

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(Re)watch the Album Launch!

Alex’s debut album “A Present From a Small Distant World” is now OUT and available!

To celebrate, we held a Virtual Album Launch Party online on Sunday Feb 21.

The event included filmed performances by Kristin Mueller-Heaslip and Jennifer Tran, a new music video of the title track, and chats with everyone who worked on the album.

The complete hour-long event is now available to watch at your leisure on Youtube!

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Grand Salto Theatre releases 5 videos: "BeeBo and Bop at Home"

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Grand Salto Theatre releases 5 videos: "BeeBo and Bop at Home"

Since the beginning of December 2020, The Grand Salto Theatre has been releasing short videos featuring friendly clowns BeeBo and Bop discovering fun activities around their home.

A longtime collaborator with Zita Nyarady (one half of The Grand Salto), Alex Eddington composed theme music and cues for the videos.

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Announcing 2020/21 consortium commission opportunity: Human Rights Suite for adaptable ensemble

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Announcing 2020/21 consortium commission opportunity: Human Rights Suite for adaptable ensemble

Composer Alex Eddington is seeking school ensembles, music teachers and other individuals to co-commission a suite of new pieces for adaptable ensemble and optional percussion.

Each short movement (ca. 30-45 seconds) will be based on an Article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.

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Join Alex in his first-ever Choir Commissioning Consortium!

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Join Alex in his first-ever Choir Commissioning Consortium!

Composer Alex Eddington is seeking amateur choirs (SATB/SAB/SA/TB/unis.) to join a consortium for the 2019/20 season.

Up to 11 choirs will co-commission a new piece for choir and piano: a setting of Lotte Kramer’s beautiful poem “Boy With Orange (out of Kosovo)”.

Sign-up by July 31, 2019 (NEW DEADLINE) - premiere anytime during the 19/20 season!

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"gibbons vs. Gibbons" - listen to a recording of the Odin Quartet premiere

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"gibbons vs. Gibbons" - listen to a recording of the Odin Quartet premiere

The Odin String Quartet premiered gibbons vs. Gibbons on March 1 at Array Space in Toronto.

Not only did they capture the sound of singing gibbon apes in their tone, and the finicky string effects needed to create the sense of Renaissance music (by Orlando Gibbons, naturally) being swatted around by these mischievous primates, but they made it funny!

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The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning Project - crowdfunding seven new works by Canadian composers

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The Canadian Piano Left Hand Commissioning Project - crowdfunding seven new works by Canadian composers

Adam Scime - a wonderful bassist, pianist and composer - broke his right hand, and had to stop playing bass while it heals. But Adam is turning lemons into an exquisite fountain of lemonade! He wants to commission seven Canadian composers - including Alex Eddington - to write new left-hand piano pieces for him to premiere this May.