brian harman, composer / compositeur

NEWS

April 18, 2011: Brian awarded an honourable mention by the Canadian League of Composers 60th Anniversary Composition Competition for his work Gregarious Machines, commissioned by ECM+ for Génération 2008.

www.ecm.qc.ca

February 17, 2011: Brian awarded a SOCAN Foundation Residency Grant with Trio '86 and the Cluster Festival (Winnipeg, March 24-26, 2011).

www.clusterfestival.com www.trio86.com

February 3, 2011: Brian announced as a winner in the ISCM-Wiener Jeunesse Chor vocal music competition! He will write a set of choral miniatures using nonsense text for the choir for performance in early 2012.

www.wienerjeunessechor.at

January 31, 2011: Brian awarded an Ontario Arts Council Grant to compose a new work for Montreal's Trio '86.

www.trio86.com

January 10, 2011: Brian commissioned by Code d'accès of Montreal to compose a new work for baritone singer and ensemble, for performance in Spring 2012.

www.codesdacces.org

January 4, 2011: Brian commissioned by Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal+ and Ensemble de Flûtes Alizé to compose a new work for flute octet.

www.ecm.qc.ca

October 2010: Brian commissioned by soprano Carla Huhtanen to write a song cycle for soprano and piano, in collaboration with writer David Brock, to be performed at the Canadian Opera Company's Noon Concert series during the 2011-2012 Season.

www.carlahuhtanen.com

July 2010: In collaboration with Evolucidanse, Harman will write a new large-scale work for solo piano and solo dancer in 2011 for performance during the 2011-2012 season.

www.evolucidanse.com

June 2010: Brian Harman chosen as composer-in-residence for Ensemble Portmantô's inaugural 2010-2011 season. Several works will be performed in Montreal over the coming year. More details TBA.

www.portmanto.ca

February 2010: The Montréal-based Journal Circuit will publish Harman's article analyzing Ana Sokolovic's Géometrie Sentimentale in the Autumn of 2010.

http://www.revuecircuit.ca/

Nov 15, 2009: Harman accepted as an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre..

http://www.musiccentre.ca

Nov 9, 2009: Latitude 45 Arts Promotion awarded "Artist/Manager of the Year" and Nathaniel Dett Chorale awarded "Touring Artist of the Year" for 2008-2009 at the Annual CAPACOA Awards. Harman is affiliated as an agent with Latitude 45 Arts and spearheaded the planning for the choir's tour of Western Canada.

Nov 8, 2009: Dialectics, for wind ensemble, performed as a finalist in the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra International Composition Competition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo, Japan.

Sept 4, 2009: Dialectics, for wind ensemble, advances to the finals of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra International Composition Competition after a live performance of the work for the jury. The work was selected as a semi-finalist in May, 2009.

July 21, 2009: New Website Design launched by Web3World! More music now available online.

June 8 - 11, 2009: Harman led contemporary improvisation workshops with Craig Pedersen, Ryan Purchase and Isak Goldschneider in various Ottawa-area elementary schools.

March 3, 2009: VivaVoce’s premiere performance of Three Rooms and a Lobby in the 2009 MusiMars Festival is reviewed by Montreal Gazette critic Arthur Kaptainis:

http://communities.canada.com

October 28, 2008: Brian interviewed for an article in Toronto’s l’Express journal about the upcoming Génération 2008 Tour with the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal:

http://www.lexpress.to/archives/3134/