| Shostakovich Paper Wins George Proctor Prize |
JUN. 2009—My paper "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" has been awarded the George Proctor Prize for best graduate student paper at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
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Three Works Performed in March |
MAR. 2009—On March 29, the Munich-based American tenor Gregory Wiest performed my song cycle Red Moon & Other Songs of War at a solo recital, his latest in a series of programs devoted to contemporary song in English. This was my German premiere. Then on March 31, at a concert at the Canadian Opera Company Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre (Toronto), the Gryphon Trio reprised my Piano Trio for the second time; and Lynn Kuo (violin) and Marianna Humetska (piano) interpreted my Schubert Fantasy, its third reading by as many duos in less than eight months.
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Shostakovich Paper Accepted by CUMS Annual Conference |
FEB. 2009—My paper "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" has been accepted by the Canadian University Music Society's Annual Conference to be held at Carleton University in Ottawa from May 28-31, 2009.
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Red Moon Song Cycle Published |
JAN. 2009—I'm pleased to announce that my song cycle Red Moon & Other Songs of War has been published by Toronto-based Plangere in a volume of songs and song cycles by nine living Toronto composers. The Toronto Songbook can be ordered online directly from the publisher.
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Shostakovich Paper Accepted by International UK Conference |
JAN. 2009—My paper "The Comfort of Denial: Metre, Cyclic Form and Narrative in Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet" has been accepted by the Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 to be held at Keele University, UK, from July 2-5, 2009.
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Two Premieres in August |
AUG. 2008—On August 5, Donnie Deacon, NACO principal second violin, and Fréderic Lacroix, piano, premiered my short fantasy on Schubert's song "Die liebe Farbe" from Die schöne Müllerin at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. Listen to an audio sample here.
Then on August 8, Alexander Dobson and Toronto's Talisker Players gave the first complete premiere of Red Moon & Other Songs of War at Festival Vancouver in a newly commissioned arrangement for baritone, piano, clarinet (& bass clarinet) & percussion. Audio samples of both versions available here. And here's the review:
" ... an unequivocal hit. There's nothing particularly subtle about Rival's grizzly cabaret idiom, but his music, heavy ironies and all, is memorable and effective."
— David Gordon Duke (Vancouver Sun) |
