Re: canadian composers who teach

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