Student Composers' Program
2024/25
Thank you to all those who attended our March 29th concert “Celebrating Asian Voices” featuring our guest artist and co-curator, Andy Lin! It was a remarkable opportunity to hear works by three generations of Asian composers while tracing the confluence of Eastern and Western aesthetics in musical form. Since the mid-1980s when China opened their borders to the world, the Asian diaspora has made significant impacts on the Western contemporary music scene that continues to be felt. This concert was a celebration of their cultural contributions and it was an immense pleasure to share this experience with all of you.
2023/24
This season, we worked with students Liezel Kruger, Jon Halvorson, Peter Stambene and Katie Levinson. World premieres of new works by these students with a special performance of Vincent Ho’s “Gryphonsong” and “A Sybil Andrews Portrait” by Jocelyn Morlock, Alexina Louie, and Allan Gordon Bell all took place at the University of Calgary on April 6, 2024.
Land’s End Ensemble would like to thank the student composers for their contributions to the program, the University of Calgary’s School of Performing and Creative Arts for their facilitation of this concert, the Glenbow for our Sybil Andrews collaboration, Dr. Jocelyn Anderson and Allan Gordon Bell for the excellent pre-concert chat, and a special thanks to Walt and Irene DeBoni for their generous support of this event and helping Glenbow commission ‘A Sybil Andrews Portrait’.
2022/23
This season’s Student Composers’ Program had us working with students Ata Ghavidel, Rachel Glessing, Shea Iles and Gloria Mui. World premieres of new works by these students with a special performance of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Moerae took place at the University of Calgary on April 1, 2023.
2021/22
In April, 2022 we premiered works written by students of the University of Calgary’s music composition program. During the course of the program, we were able to provide each student an enriching educational experience and creative opportunity that contributed to students’ artistic growth.
Works performed were:
- Connor Beatty – “Not Quite Clockwork”
- Saba Bidar – “C’est la vie”
Katarina Bohdan – “Verzerren” - Kayra Caner – “Des Glückes Stummes Schweigen”
- Sydney Lehner – “Hope’s Lullaby”
2020/21
During the 2020/21 season, in collaboration with the University of Calgary and with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, we were proud to have held our first student composers’ program in Calgary. A group of seven students of the University of Calgary’s Music Composition program were selected to compose 5- to 8-minute works for our ensemble. The initial sketches of the pieces were workshopped on December 1, 2020, by our ensemble with the supervision of composers Allan Gordon Bell and Vincent Ho. The final versions of the works were presented on April 10, 2021, in a live-stream concert.
Here was the program:
- Darren Ancheta – the moon and the stars
Julie Olive – Lashing - Maria Bustos – Juniper and Trial
- Mickail Hendi – To Languish
- Scott Ross-Molyneux – A Burning Tower at the Sea
[INTERMISSION] – 15 minutes
- Matthew Mak – Prairie Winds
- Filip Vujanovic – grief
- Vincent Ho – Gryphon Realms (mvts II and III)
