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Nightsongs - Canadian Chamber Music for Bassoon

Nightsongs - Canadian Chamber Music for Bassoon is now available. Rodney Sharman's Incantation (2007) was commissioned especially for this recording by Kathleen McLean. Performers are Kathleen McLean, bassoon, the Accordes String Quartet and Erica Goodman, harp.

CDs can be purchased from the Canadian Music Centre.

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James Kudelka/Rodney Sharman Premiere

World premiere at the San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, April 23, 2008.

The Ruins Proclaim the Building was Beautiful was commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet for their 75th anniversary season's New Works Festival, April 22 to May 6, 2008. Choreography is by James Kudelka; music by Rodney Sharman, design by Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell, of Hoax Couture. Funding for the music commission was provided by the Swanson Foundation. Other works on the April 23 programme are new pieces by choreographers Julia Adam (J.S.Bach), Stanton Welch (Francis Poulenc) and Mark Morris with a new orchestra score by John Adams.

Rodney Sharman's orchestra score is based on César Franck’s organ work Prélude, fugue et variation and 1e Fantaisie. The piece begins with Sharman’s own distant variations on Franck and moves closer and closer to the original over the course of about 30 minutes. The score features extended solos for most of the orchestra’s principals, especially violin, flute, trumpet, cello and harp.

This is the second time Kudelka has choreographed Sharman's music. Thrust, a pas de deux, commissioned for the 2002 Governor Generals Awards Ceremony at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, was set to Rodney Sharman’s Scarlattiana. James Kudelka and Rodney Sharman are currently working on a new ballet for Oregon Ballet Theatre, first performances in Spring, 2009.



James Kudelka/Rodney Sharman Premiere

World premiere at the San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, April 23, 2008.

The Ruins Proclaim the Building was Beautiful was commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet for their 75th anniversary season's New Works Festival, April 22 to May 6, 2008. Choreography is by James Kudelka; music by Rodney Sharman, design by Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell, of Hoax Couture. Funding for the music commission was provided by the Swanson Foundation. Other works on the April 23 programme are new pieces by choreographers Julia Adam (J.S.Bach), Stanton Welch (Francis Poulenc) and Mark Morris with a new orchestra score by John Adams.

Rodney Sharman's orchestra score is based on César Franck’s organ work Prélude, fugue et variation and 1e Fantaisie. The piece begins with Sharman’s own distant variations on Franck and moves closer and closer to the original over the course of about 30 minutes. The score features extended solos for most of the orchestra’s principals, especially violin, flute, trumpet, cello and harp.

This is the second time Kudelka has choreographed Sharman's music. Thrust, a pas de deux, commissioned for the 2002 Governor Generals Awards Ceremony at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, was set to Rodney Sharman’s Scarlattiana. James Kudelka and Rodney Sharman are currently working on a new ballet for Oregon Ballet Theatre, first performances in Spring, 2009.



James Kudelka/Rodney Sharman Premiere

World premiere at the San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, April 23, 2008.

The Ruins Proclaim the Building was Beautiful was commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet for their 75th anniversary season's New Works Festival, April 22 to May 6, 2008. Choreography is by James Kudelka; music by Rodney Sharman, design by Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell, of Hoax Couture. Funding for the music commission was provided by the Swanson Foundation. Other works on the April 23 programme are new pieces by choreographers Julia Adam (J.S.Bach), Stanton Welch (Francis Poulenc) and Mark Morris with a new orchestra score by John Adams.

Rodney Sharman's orchestra score is based on César Franck’s organ work Prélude, fugue et variation and 1e Fantaisie. The piece begins with Sharman’s own distant variations on Franck and moves closer and closer to the original over the course of about 30 minutes. The score features extended solos for most of the orchestra’s principals, especially violin, flute, trumpet, cello and harp.

This is the second time Kudelka has choreographed Sharman's music. Thrust, a pas de deux, commissioned for the 2002 Governor Generals Awards Ceremony at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, was set to Rodney Sharman’s Scarlattiana. James Kudelka and Rodney Sharman are currently working on a new ballet for Oregon Ballet Theatre, first performances in Spring, 2009.



Rodney Sharman's Departures (2008) receives its premiere at the Concertgebouw Saturday Matinee, March 1st, 2008, Amsterdam. Ed Spanjaard conducts the Nieuw Ensemble in a concert, "Confronting Silence", with music by Takemitsu, Feldman, Hosakowa and Sharman, with further performances in Utrecht and Groningen March 4 and 5.

While in Europe, Rodney Sharman will serve on the jury of the International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, and will give talks on his work at the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Basel Musikhochschule, Switzerland.



Delicate Fires, Tiresias

Delicate Fires, Tiresias - CD cover
New CD of music for flute and piano, is now available.

Rodney Sharman's ARSIS & THESIS, for flute and piano, is included on Tiresias' new CD of music for flute and piano. Mark Takeshi McGregor, flute, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano

CDs can be purchased from the Canadian Music Centre



Shattering the Silence 2008

Rodney Sharman is Guest Composer at Acadia University New Music Festival, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
For more information and concert details: www.shatteringthesilence.ca



Honouring Our Own
Photo from "Honouring Our Own", British Columbia composers and poets talking about the transition from verse to song, Vancouver International Song Institute, June 17, 2007, University of British Columbia, Rena Sharon, Artistic Director. Panelists are (from left to right) John Greer, Leslie Uyeda, Lorna Crozier, Bob Pritchard, Bill Richardson, Rodney Sharman, David Gordon Duke, Steve Chatman. CBC broadcast date TBA.



Rodney Sharman at Banff Centre
Rodney Sharman will be mentor artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts March 7-9, 2007.



Richard Sacks' new CD of music for percussion

Richard Sacks 'Ten Planets'

Rodney Sharman's APOLLO'S TOUCH, for solo vibraphone, is included on Richard Sacks' new CD of music for percussion, TEN PLANETS. Purchase it now!



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