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2017
- 2018 Season - Main Events
July
6, 2017 - premier: "Carmena Gadelica"
New work for choir and electric guitar
Commissioned by the Montreal Organ Festival
Mary Queen of the World Church, Montréal
July 23, 2017 - Instruments of Happiness - 100 Guitars
in Stratford (ON)
"100 Very Good Reasons Why..." - performed at the Stratford
Summer Music Festival
in the William Allman Arena
July 31, 2017 - Montréal premiere: Symphony #4,
plus:
World premiere: "Pour Gilles" - for orchestra
"The How and the Why of Memory: Symphony #4" - performed by the
Orchestre de la Francophonie, Simon Rivard, conductor, at the
Arsenal Contemporary Art Space.
Premier performance: "Pour Gilles" - a short orchestral work in
homage to québécois composer
Gilles Tremblay (d. July 27, 2017)
NEW:
Tim Brady: feature article and reviews at NEUGUITARS:
Read
HERE.
NEW: Instruments of Happiness quartet video - from 2017
tour: Watch
VIDEO
COMING SOON: Instruments of Happiness quartet CD: "The
Happiness Handbook"
Music by T. Brady, J. Nobles, M. McKinley, E. Hall, S. Godin, G.
Fitzell
Release date: March 15, 2018
Nov. 7, 2017 new work for 18 guitaras at ISCM -
Vancouver
"For Jordan" - new work for 18 electric guitars, commissioned by
Redshift Music
for
their concert at the International Society for Contemporary
Music Festival
Spatialised music Vancouver Public Library
Dec.
13, 2017 - Instruments of Happiness - Le VIVIER/Le Gesù
As part of "VIVER-MIX" concert - IoH will perform
"Equal But Opposite Reaction" (Brady)
and "Réflets sur Francesca Woodman" (McKinley). Salle Gesù,
Montréal
Feb.
7, 2018 - "Whose Motion Sounds: Symphony #8"
Premiere
of a new 36-minute symphony for electric guitar, violin, hand
percussion and 12 solo voices with Brady, Helmut Lipsky (violin)
and Shawn Mativetsky (perc), and the Voces Boreales Choir,
conducted by Andrew Gray. Also works by Pärt, Klatzow, and the
premiere of a work for
electric
guitar and choir by Stephanie Moore. Salle Bourgie, Montréal.
Instruments of Happiness - "The Lioness of Iran" - March
2018 Tour
IoH Guitar Quartet plus voice - 6 newly commissioned
works based on the poetry
of Nobel Prize-nominated Iranian poet Simin Behbahani
Composers: Kiya Tabassian, Emily Hall, Juliet Palmer, Parisa
Sabet, Laurie Radford, Jennifer Butler
Performances: Toronto (Mar. 22), Montréal (Mar. 27), Québec City
(Mar. 29)
June 2018 - date and location to be announced in Spring
2018
New work for 100 guitars - Concerto for solo electric guitar and
99 spatialized guitars
Theme: George Harrison - 2018 would have been his 75th birthday!
100 Guitar Video: from the Apr. 9, 2016 concert at Le
Gesù: Watch
VIDEO.
Improvisational
Workshops at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Oct. 14 - Nov. 25, 2017 (Saturday AM) - for beginner improvisers
Feb. 10 - Mar. 24, 2018 (Saturday AM) - for intermediate
improvisers
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