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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Delicate
Fires, Tiresias
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
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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
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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.
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Rodney
Sharman at Banff Centre
Rodney Sharman will be mentor artist at the Banff Centre for the
Arts March 7-9, 2007.
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Richard
Sacks' new CD of music for percussion
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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