2010December 6, 2010: Swedish premiere of
Climate Change, Trembling Aeroplanes ensemble, Inter-Arts Centre, Malmö, Sweden
World Premiere,
Gypsy Chronicles, Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra conducted by the composer, commissioned work, November 28, 2010, Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
November 22, Oliver appeared on stage at the Vancouver Public Library with musicians of the
Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra and their artistic director Moshe Denberg at a lecture-demonstration called
Music of the Whole World: Global Drums & Strums, an event in which the composers presented the ideas behind their compositions and the musicians demonstrated techniques of their instruments and traditional music, primarily from the Middle East.
World Premiere of
Birds of Paradise Lost by Canadian flutist
Chenoa Anderson, commissioned work, October 10, 2010, La Sala Rossa, 4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal; additional performances October 13, 2010 8:00 pm, Jean McNulty Recital Hall, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Red Chamber performed
A Dream of Africa July 10 at the Michael J Fox Theatre, 7:30 as part of the BCCME concert "Better City, Better Life"
Turning Point Ensemble premieres commissioned work
Contemplating Motion at special concert of music by elementary and high school students, the culmination of the ensemble’s educational initiative in collaboration with the North Vancouver School District; June 9, 2010. Mount Seymour United Church, North Vancouver, BC. Oliver was a featured guest speaker and gave master classes at Seycove Secondary. Read about this event
here.
Oliver performed on electric guitar and computer/sampler as guest musician of the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Saturday May 22 at the Roundhouse in a program of three Canadian works by Scott Good, Andrew Staniland and Erik Ross, as well as
Ryoanji by John Cage.
May 18, 2010: performance of
Tossing and Turning for solo violin,
Piotr Szewczyk, Hicks Auditorium, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Vancouver premiere of
Guitar concerto La Abuela, guitarist
Alexander Dunn & the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Saturday April 24, 2010.
Red Chamber performs Oliver’s
A Dream of Africa and his arrangement of John Cage’s
Dance No. 1 (from
Three Dances) on
Cross-Canada Tour, February 16 to March 7, and Northwest Territories May 10-16. For more details, please visit my
blog entry. For itinerary of concerts, please visit
Mei Han's web site.
Oliver is
Composer-in-Residence at the 2010 Northwest Guitar Festival, April 9-11, 2010. Included performances by all of the guitar competition participants of Oliver's
Pavanas for classical guitar as the imposed piece, as well as the
Victoria premiere of Oliver's guitar quartet
PRISMOPHONY performed by the Victoria Guitar Trio and Alexander Dunn.
Bruce Mather’s new Double-CD “Music in thirds and sixteenths of tones” features my
Hot Tempered Clavier, a reworking of the famous Bach
Well-Tempered Clavier to “compose the temperment.” If Bach wanted to play music in any key on a single keyboard, using the new equal-tempered tuning system, I have taken the first and second preludes and fugues and reworked them so that the temperment moves from 12-tone ET, through various divisions (24, 48, and 96 divisions) into what I call “spectral tuning” at the cadences. Your ears will stand up on end!
Also contains music by Wychnegradsky, J.E. Marie, J. Burke, M. Patch, G. Tremblay, J. Desjardins, M. Gonneville, O. Gagnon, J. Winiarz, and Bruce Mather himself. The CD can be purchased on
this page.March 28, 2010: Performance of
Raven’s Cry for voice, piano and prerecorded audio;
Heather Pawsey, voice;
Rachel Iwaasa, piano; UBC Museum of Anthropology as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s
New Music in New Places series.
World Premiere, Five-ring Concerto,
Turning Point Ensemble, Feb. 24, 2010, work commissioned for the
2010 Cultural Olympiad.
January 23, 2010: Canadian League of Composers (CLC) presents “Cultivating Your Career: A Workshop for Composers at All Stages of Their Career”, Western Front, Vancouver, BC. Oliver appears on the
Composers Panel