canadian composers who teach

Paul Rappoport is the dean of music at McMaster. They have a Scalatron out
there, an electronic keyboard with a generalized keyboard. He works in JI
and different ETs.

James Tenney teaches at York University, he has worked with Partch and his
compositions are keeping him travelling a lot, but he is very smart and
worth hanging out with.

At Simon Fraser there is someone there who works in electronic and
alternate tunings, but unfortunately I cannot recall his name right now.

Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much about
him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone pieces.

Hope that helps.
John Gzowski

Paul Rappoport is the dean of music at McMaster. They have a Scalatron out
there, an electronic keyboard with a generalized keyboard. He works in JI
and different ETs.

James Tenney teaches at York University, he has worked with Partch and his
compositions are keeping him travelling a lot, but he is very smart and
worth hanging out with.

At Simon Fraser there is someone there who works in electronic and
alternate tunings, but unfortunately I cannot recall his name right now.

Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much about
him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone pieces.

Hope that helps.
John Gzowski

Ehehe! yeah, I know... but the piece I heard was really in 1/16th of tone,
not in 1/6th... It was played on a unique 1/16th piano (if there is two of
them). I know about McGill I would have been accepted there if I had not
cancelled my inscription... but I'm not really sure I want to live in
Montreal. I know that city (it's only 1h30 from where I was born ;-)

There is Denys Bouliane who's teaching there. Anyways, for now I'm not sure
if I want to continue on with pure traditional compoisition or if I wouldn't
be better to study in Electroaccoustique...?! At the conservatory of Montreal
someone said to me that they offer both programs combined... seems interesting
too... but I must see if I find any suitable teacher... :-)

Thanks for all the information :-)

Vincent-Olivier Gagnon.

jon wild wrote:

> From: jon wild <wild@fas.harvard.edu>
>
> John Gzowski wrote:
>
> > Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much
> > about him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone
> > pieces.
>
> those would be '6th-tone', not 16th-tone... Bruce teaches at McGill in
> Montreal, and I studied there with him a few years ago. He has been a
> champion of Wyschnegradsky's music for a long time, and premiered many of
> his quarter- and 6th-tone pieces. My favourite microtonal piece by Mather
> himself is for four pianos (8 hands) in quarter-tones plus four
> ondes-martenot. sorry, can't remember what it's called. There are a
> couple of recordings put out by McGill Records of his 1/4-tone stuff,
> played by him and his wife Pierrette, and his 1/6th-tone stuff on 3
> pianos. You can probably find out through the McGill music website,
> http://www.music.mcgill.ca. Mather also uses a lot of quarter-tones in
> his recent chamber opera, "La Princesse Blanche". By the way, there are
> some other fine composers who teach at McGill, notably Brian Cherney. It's
> a great school, and a wonderful city, to be a musician in.
>
> cheers - Jon
>
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