The Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project and the Schulich School of Music invite you to a lecture about the the Composer-performer Orchestration Research Ensemble (CORE) project presented by Professors Stephen McAdams (Music Technology) and Guillaume Bourgogne (Orchestral Conducting) on April 8 at 5:00pm EDT as part of the Research Alive Series. The event will take place in the Music Multimedia Room (Elizabeth Wirth Music Building) and will be followed by a concert at 7:30pm (EDT) involving musicians and composers from two iterations of the project. The lecture portion of the event will be webcast.

Admission to both the lecture and concert is free.

PROGRAM:
Stephen McAdams, scientific director
Guillaume Bourgogne, artistic director
Martha de Francisco, sound recording director
Yuval Adler (CORE 1 & 2), Tristan Alantar (CORE 1), Hyunjoung Yang (CORE 1), Ying-Ying Zhang (CORE 1 & 2), Yangwanqing (Viola) Zhou (CORE 2), audiovisual assistants

CORE 1 (2019-2020)

Pedram Diba (McGill University), Reaching for the Unreachable Point of Desire
Alexander Blank (McGill University), Flow
Quentin Lauvray (McGill University), ...for narrow is the door...

Charles-Eric Fontaine, conductor
Jeanne-Sophie Baron, violin
Victor Mangas, bass clarinet
Eric Bourgeois, trombone
Martin Daigle, percussion

Intermission

CORE 2 (2021-2022)

Jihyoung Lee (McGill University), The Fingers of a Shaman
Darren Xu (University of British Columbia), Prayers and Curses
Louis-Michel Tougas (McGill University), Étude
Mariah Mennie (University of British Columbia), Phantasmagoria
Anita Pari (McGillUniversity), To a Lullaby

Frédéric-Alexandre Michaud, Guillaume Bourgogne, conductors
Bailey Wantuch, violin
Amelia Smerz, cello
Alex Huyghebaert, flute
Alexander Ortins, bass clarinet
Micah Kroeker, trombone
Donglai Shi, piano
Huizi Wang, percussion

For more information, visit Research Alive | Concert