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

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

When the titular piece was passed out to my choir a few weeks ago, one of the basses groaned, “Why?”. … More

I’m unfailingly drawn to setting children’s texts to music. The poetry and songs we consume when we’re children get a … More