Writing Music With Children

I relate my own craft to the creative spirit of children because I aspire to be as uninhibited creatively as … More

My Trip To World Music Days In Lisbon

The annual ISCM World (New) Music Days Festival is organized each year by a different host. The festival presents music … More

Au Clair De La Lune was written for Chor Leoni’s annual C/4 Composition Competition and performed in Vancouver, BC on … More

A wizened old choral leader once told me, “If you’re in the choir business, you’re in the Christmas business!”. Meaning, … More

It is now old news that my choral conflagration, “Alouette Meets Her Maker” has been selected to be part of … More

I think I may be coming around to Brahms’s larger orchestral works. On this blog, I’ve opined the occasional colourfully … More

I’m excited to share that – thanks to a generous grant from Canada Council For The Arts – I’ll be … More

Jonathan Harvey’s The Annunciation was written for the St John College choir in 2011 during the last year of the … More

It’s true that I don’t get out much anymore which makes this one of my more unusual posts: I actually … More

Last week I once again had the privilege of hearing a piece of mine read at the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s … More

I’ve been focused a lot on my piece, Alouette Meets Her Maker these days. I have to unapologetic about it … More

One of the things that initially attracted me to writing for massed voices was the fact that the human voice … More