Education & Outreach

Premiere performance of a new work by David Betz, who was selected through the ACI Youth Mentorship Program in the Arts to study with trombonist/composer Jeff Presslaf in 2011–12.

Performers: Andrew Littleford, trumpet; Jeff Presslaf, trombone; Ken Gold, baritone saxophone
Co-presented with ACI Manitoba

This pre-concert performance is free of admission

Corey Hamm will play Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated, as well as a selection of recent Canadian works.
One of Canada’s finest interpreters of new music, Hamm has performed The People United at numerous international venues.

Performance: 11:30 a.m. (Part 1) and 12:30 p.m. (Part 2), Eva Clare Hall, Music Building 1

Masterclass: 2:30 p.m., Room 170 Music Building 2

Co-presented with the University of Manitoba Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music

All events free of admission

Together with eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE), the University of Manitoba Marcel A Desautels Faculty of Music is pleased to present the Winnipeg stop of the CEC’s nation-wide 25th anniversary tour. Events include a masterclass and seminar by Canadian electroacoustic music guru Kevin Austin, with presentations by Örjan Sandred and Gordon Fitzell; a performance of the winning compositions from the national electroacoustic music competition JTTP 2011; a performance of recent music from Studio FLAT; and a performance by the eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE). Here is the full schedule:

•  9:00-10:00 AM: Composition masterclass with Kevin Austin (Music 2, Studio FLAT)

•  10:00-11:15 AM & 11:30-12:30 PM: Seminar on Canadian electroacoustic music with Kevin Austin (Music 2, Room 156)

•  6:00-7:15 PM: Concert 1 - Winning compositions from the JTTP 2011 competition (Education Building, Room 290)

•  7:30-8:00 PM: CEC Meet & Greet (C.A.S.T. Building, located between Music 1 and Music 2)

•  8:00-9:00 PM: Concert 2 - Studio FLAT and the XIE (C.A.S.T.  Building, located between Music 1 and Music 2)

Note: Both of tonight’s improvisations feature the XIE’s debut performance with MoFlo, an optical flow-based audio interface developed at the University of Manitoba’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab (Pourang Irani, director) by Computer Science master’s student Barrett Ens, in conjunction with the XIE.

Co-presented with Marcel A Desautels Faculty of Music and the eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE).

All events free of admission

Bill Brunson, professor of electroacoustic music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, will present a free afternoon recital of his work at Eva Claire Hall at the University of Manitoba, followed by a composition masterclass at the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music. All are welcome.

Co-presented with the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music

All events free of admission