Student Composers' Program
This program provides composition students the opportunity to work with a professional ensemble so that they may gain the skills and experiences that are critical to their artistic and creative growth. It also creates the “scenius” that is needed for long-term cultural growth in all levels of our society.
In partnership with the University of Calgary’s Music Department, each year a select group of students from the Composition Program are asked to create new works for Land’s End Ensemble. We workshop their pieces in November and December at U of C’s Rozsa Centre, with composers Allan Gordon Bell and Vincent Ho as supervisors. From the feedback they receive from musicians, Allan and Vince, the students edit their works throughout the rest of the school year.
In April, Land’s End Ensemble then performs the final versions of their works as a concert that is live-streamed and recorded for participating student composers to have for personal use.
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’.
