NEWS / RECENT & UPCOMING EVENTS

• Awarded a 2024 Fromm Music Foundation Commission for a new cello concerto for Julie Trudeau and le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne

• Commission of Cent Soleils (new work for Marie-Nicole Lemieux and the Montreal Symphony) announced for December 2024

• World premiere of new Yeats settings for the Brooklyn Art Song Society with Dominik Belavy & Nathaniel LaNasa, May 2024

• World premiere of Contrition for countertenor, oboe and string orchestra (OCM commission), April 11 2024

• Canadian premiere of Méloscuro (Piano Concerto no. 2) with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra & Roger Admiral, March 2024

• World premiere of Lunch Poems 2 with Daniel McGrew and Nathaniel LaNasa at The Morgan Library, March 20 2024

• Commission of Songs For Judith (through the Canadian Art Song Project and Terence Dalgleish) announced, February 1 2024

• Canadian premiere of Swallow Songs featured on Vancouver’s Music On Main, February 20 2024

• Podcast with Saad Haddad released (discussing song & opera), November 2023

• Adrift (premiere of revised version) programmed with the Philharmoniches Staatsorchester Hamburg, September 4 2023

• Selected as a 2023 Bogliasco Foundation fellow (Genoa, Italy), Spring 2023

• Review of Unruly Sun premiere (Montréal, QC) featured in Revue L’Opéra, January 2023

• Karim Sulayman premieres Unruly Sun (libretto: Mark Campbell) in Montréal, December 2022

• New York Festival of Song features two world premieres (Nathaniel LaNasa, piano; Dominik Belavy, baritone), October 2022

• Serving on Composition Faculty of the Longy School of Music’s 2022 Divergent Studio

• Melodia selected for the official 2022 Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Syllabus (available for purchase here)

• Selected as a 2022 Everwood Farmstead Foundation Retreat Artist

• Awarded a Koussevitsky Foundation commission from the Library of Congress

• Adrift nominated for the 2021 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Music Composition Prize

• Still There awarded First Prize in the Graham Sommer Competition (September 2021)

• Anaphora awarded the ECM+ Jury Prize (June 2021)

• Interviewed for the Samuel Andreyev Podcast (June 2021)

• Feature film Glob Lessons (original score: Matthew Ricketts) selected for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival

• New song cycle project with librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell announced on Opera Innovation

• Professor George Lewis names Chaakapesh one of the Artforum Magazine’s Best Music of 2020

• Adrift (Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra) premieres with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg (November 5 2020)

• Release of LINEAGE: Contemporary Piano Music from Montreal (featuring Melodia), October 30 2020

• ECM+ premieres Anaphora for the Génération Projet 2020/2021 Tour (October 20-29 2020, Québec)

• Recipient of the 2020 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters

• Emi Ferguson & Stephen Gosling premiere Swallow Songs at Peabody Conservatory (February 2020)

• Named a 2020 Civitella Ranieri Fellow

• Finalist for the Graham Sommer Competition (October 2020)

• Performance of Seven By Seven by Collage New Music in Boston (January 12 2020)

• Nominated for the 2020 Gaudeamus Award

• Highest Light for solo organ to be performed at the 2020 Organ Festival of Canada (Victoria, BC)

• Summer Line performed at the Calgary New Music Festival (October 2019)

• Selected for the ECM+ Génération cross-Canada Tour (October 2020)

• Premiere of new work for loadbang, April 2020 (NYC)

• Premiere of Halo (Concerto for Two Trombones and Orchestra), Montreal Symphony Orchestra, August 10 2019 (Montreal)
  Review, Eklektic Media (French)
  Review, Clarin.com (Spanish)

• Premiere of Ember, commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, written for FLUX quartet, August 2 2019 (Santa Fe)

• Awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

• Awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, June-July 2019

• Article in Lufthansa Magazine about Chaakapesh and the OSM’s tour of Northern Quebec

• Podcast conversation as part of the Movers & Makers series available here

• Wavefield Ensemble premieres chamber re-orchestration of Melodia at National Sawdust, January 27 2019 (review here)

• The Minnesota Orchestra performs Melodia (Piano Concerto no. 1), January 18 2019

• “Situation” from Song Cycle featured on Scrag Mountain Music Festival (Vermont), January 11-13 2019

• Chaakapesh: The Trickster’s Quest opens the Montreal Symphony’s 85th season and tours Québec, September 2018
  Review (Français)
  Review (English)