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ANDREW STANILAND (CA) Broadly speaking, my music may be defined as modern, avant-garde, experimental, or new classical music. I am interested in exploring mixed medias – particularly acoustic sounds mixed with electronically derived sounds. Using performers and electronic sound together in the same piece presents many interesting challenges to the composer and performer. I find the medium interesting, as electronically delivered music maintains an overwhelming presence in our daily lives, sometimes not as a substitute for live music, but as an entity to be enjoyed in itself. Incorporating pre-recorded sounds and live electronics into a piece with performers introduces an amazing array of possibilities, as the medium is capable of producing a pallet of sound that exceeds any other medium, limited only by the imagination of the composer. ANDREW STANILAND is a composer and new media performer whose music is performed and broadcast internationally. Recent commissions include works the virtuoso group Toca Loca, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Andrew’s music has been described as “beautiful and terrifying” (New Yorker Magazine) and as a composer who “will emerge as one of the most individual voices in this country” (National Arts Centre Press Release, November 2002). He holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Toronto, and has received numerous accolades, including top prizes in the SOCAN young composers competition, and the 2004 Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music. His orchestral work Gaia represented Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 2007. Staniland is currently Affiliate Composer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. www.andrewstaniland.com |
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