NEW
50' WORK FOR ENSEMBLE,VOICE,TAPE,LIVE ELECTRONICS AND VISUALS
HUGH-LANE
GALLERY - DUBLIN - 5TH OF OCTOBER
MERMAID
ARTS CENTER - BRAY - 7TH OF OCTOBER
‘A
musical performance is like an ecosystem; the slightest change in population
dynamics or environmental conditions can have a profound impact on the
evolution of organisms within that system. I like to keep my music open
to these possibilities, creating worlds and watching them slowly mutate
around a variety of performance and compositional interventions.’
Rob Canning studied music at the University of Wales with Anthony
Powers and University College Dublin with Seóirse Bodley where
he gained an M.Litt in composition in 1999. He has attended several composition
masterclasses including the Gaudeamus International Young Composers' Meeting
in the Netherlands and the Stockhausen-Kurse in Germany.
In 1998 he won first prize in the Composers’ Class of the RTÉ
Musician of the Future competition. Other awards received include first
prize in the international section of the New Music for Sligo Composition
Competition (1999), the Emerging Artist Award from Wicklow County Council
(2001) and the Macaulay Fellowship (2001) administered by the Arts Council.
He has received commissions from RTÉ, Concorde, Music for Galway
and the Galway Arts Festival. Among his recent compositions are Room Full
of Mirrors for piano, tape and spatialized sound and Garden of the Forking
Paths for large ensemble recently premiered by the London Sinfonietta
and selected to represent Ireland in the International Rostrum of Composers
2003. He is currently working on a 50' piece for Concorde involving instrumental
forces combined with spatialized sound, tape and real-time processing.
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