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| April 2013 : Exciting announcement: Nina Arsenault will be featured in Brian's current project, a solo piano work with projected video by Danilo Ursini, to be performed at the Music Gallery the evening of May 25, 2013. |
www.ninaarsenault.com
www.ursiniphotography.com |
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| March 2013 : Brian's article on Ana Sokolovic's Géométrie Sentimentale will be translated and published as part of a new book about contemporary music in Québec, entitled Écouter le modernisme musical au Québec. |
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| February 2013 : Brian's analysis on the music of Ana Sokolovic published in Circuit: "Musical Robots and the Serbian kolo: A Narrative Analysis of Ana Sokolovic's Géométrie Sentimentale (1997)" |
| www.revuecircuit.ca
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| February 2013 : Brian attended the Impuls Contemporary Music Festival in Graz, Austria, where he worked with Georges Aperghis, Christian Dierstein and percussionists from around the world on a new work for percussion trio. He also worked with Georg Frederic Haas and Pierluigi Billone, and attended many concerts, lectures and workshops. |
| www.impuls.cc
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| February 2013 : Brian was the featured composer in the SOUNDLAB podcast series, interviewed by Paul Steenhuisen. Many excerpts of his works are included in the podcast. You can find the free podcast here: |
| itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/soundlab-new-music-podcast
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| November 5, 2012 : Enclosures broadcast on Groundswell Radio, CKUW 95.9 Winnipeg. |
| ckuw.ca/programs/detail/groundswell-radio |
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| October-November, 2012 : Final revisions being made to Brian's forthcoming article in Circuit, discussing Ana Sokolovic's ensemble work Géometrie Sentimentale using toy robots in a narrative analytical approach. |
| www.revuecircuit.ca |
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| October 2012 : Brian commissioned to write a new work for solo piano by ∆TENT ensemble of Toronto, to be performed at the Music Gallery, May 25, 2013. |
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| September 12, 2012 : The premiere of Brian's Rituals and Tendencies by the Wiener Jeunesse Kammerchor will be broadcast by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, and will be performed at the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna. |
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| August 2012 : Brian participated as a jury member in the Conservatory Canada Creative Composers Competition. |
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| August 2012 : Brian accepted into the Impuls Academy, an international new music workshop in Graz, Austria, February, 2013, where he will work with various composers and performers including Georges Aperghis and Klangforum Wien. |
| www.impuls.cc/academy.html |
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| June 15, 2012 : Brian's accepted as finalist in New York City's MATA Festival Call for Scores. |
| www.matafestival.org |
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| June 1, 2012 : Brian awarded a SOCAN Foundation Sir Ernest MacMillan prize for his orchestral work Supposed Spaces. |
| www.socanfoundation.ca |
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April 13, 2012 : Brian will receive funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to compose a new work for Toronto's New Music Concerts, to be premiered in Spring 2013. |
| www.newmusicconcerts.com |
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March 7, 2012 : Brian will present a paper at the University of Toronto Music Graduate Student Symposium in early May, 2012 entitled "Architecture and Revelry as Metaphors in a Spatial Approach to Music Composition". The paper will discuss his orchestral work Supposed Spaces. |
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March 1, 2012 : Brian will be a guest lecturer at the first edition of the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab in June, 2012.
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February 10, 2012 : Brian will participate in nu:nord, a Canada-Norway new music exchange project in Montreal in early July, 2012, and compose a new work for solo clarinet for Mark Bradley. |
| http://www.nunord.ca |
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February 7, 2012 : Brian selected as the composer facilitator for the Master Class Youth Series in Midland, ON in June, 2012. He will develop a composition and piano workshop in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre, Conservatory Canada, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation. |
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January 30, 2012 : Brian awarded commissioning funds from the Ontario Arts Council for a new chamber work that he will write for Sudbury's 5-Penny New Music Ensemble (Ensemble de musique contemporaine du gros 5 sous). |
| http://www.5pennynewmusic.ca |
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December 15, 2011 : Brian's orchestral work Supposed Spaces selected to be part of Canada's Submission to the 2013 Conference of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) |
| http://www.iscmwnmd2013.org |
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December 1, 2011 : Commissioned by Code d'accès of Montreal to compose a duo for violin and cello for performance in October 2012 in Montreal. |
| http://www.codesdacces.org |
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September 6, 2011 : Brian in attendance at the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands, attending a huge variety of contemporary music concerts. |
| http://www.muziekweek.nl |
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September 4, 2011: in Vienna for a few days, Brian worked with Ajtony Csaba and the Wiener Jeunesse Kammerchor on the new set of choral miniatures he is composing for performance in Vienna in May 2012. |
| http://www.wienerjeunessechor.at |
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August 27, 2011: Brian attended concerts and participated in Ostrava Days, an inspiring festival of contemporary music in Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| http://www.newmusicostrava.cz/en/ostrava-days-festival |
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August 24, 2011 : in the Czech Republic! Brian stopped into the Czech Music Information Centre in Prague, Czech Republic to pick up some CDs of contemporary Czech music and saw the beautiful grave site of Antonin Dvorak |
| www.musica.cz |
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July 10, 2011: An incredible trip with my partner to New Zealand and Australia, complete with visits to new music centres in both countries: Soundz in Wellington, New Zealand and the Australian Music Centre in Sydney, Australia. |
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June 9, 2011: Brian commissioned by the 5-Penny New Music Ensemble (Ensemble de musique contemporaine du gros 5 sous) of Sudbury, Ontario to write a new work for their 2012-2013 Season. |
| http://www.5pennynewmusic.ca |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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January 31, 2011: Brian awarded an Ontario Arts Council Grant to compose a new work for Montreal's Trio '86. |
| www.trio86.com |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Nov 15, 2009: Harman accepted as an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre.. |
| http://www.musiccentre.ca |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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July 21, 2009: New Website Design launched by Web3World! More music now available online. |
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June 8 - 11, 2009: Harman led contemporary improvisation workshops with Craig Pedersen, Ryan Purchase and Isak Goldschneider in various Ottawa-area elementary schools. |
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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 |
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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 |
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