Owen bloomfielD
Owen Bloomfield completed his Master of Music in Composition at the University of British Columbia with Keith Hamel. His Bachelor of Music is from Wilfrid Laurier University where he studied with Peter Hatch and Glenn Buhr. He also earned a diploma in music from Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario.
Mr. Bloomfield's works have been performed by a wide variety of ensembles and soloists in Canada and the United States, including The New Arts Quartet, soprano Natasha Campbell, pianists Christopher Bowlby and Iwona Kaminska, and guitarist Kevin Ramessar. He is a founding member of tranSpectra, a group dedicated to the performance and composition of music using the Bohlen-Pierce tuning system. His piece Wanderer for Bohlen-Pierce clarinet duo is the world's first for that instrument and has been performed at the Open Ears festival in Kitchener, Ontario. Mr. Bloomfield has collaborated twice with Yukon writer Lawrie Crawford on the interdisciplinary stage projects Variations on Gestalt and Tilt!. These works have been performed in Vancouver, Whitehorse, Kitchener and Guelph. He has also had readings by the Penderecki String Quartet, Trio Phoenix and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He is an instructor of piano, theory and composition at the Guelph School of Music and music director at St. Matthias Anglican Church in Guelph. He currently resides in Cambridge, Ontario.
Mr. Bloomfield's works have been performed by a wide variety of ensembles and soloists in Canada and the United States, including The New Arts Quartet, soprano Natasha Campbell, pianists Christopher Bowlby and Iwona Kaminska, and guitarist Kevin Ramessar. He is a founding member of tranSpectra, a group dedicated to the performance and composition of music using the Bohlen-Pierce tuning system. His piece Wanderer for Bohlen-Pierce clarinet duo is the world's first for that instrument and has been performed at the Open Ears festival in Kitchener, Ontario. Mr. Bloomfield has collaborated twice with Yukon writer Lawrie Crawford on the interdisciplinary stage projects Variations on Gestalt and Tilt!. These works have been performed in Vancouver, Whitehorse, Kitchener and Guelph. He has also had readings by the Penderecki String Quartet, Trio Phoenix and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He is an instructor of piano, theory and composition at the Guelph School of Music and music director at St. Matthias Anglican Church in Guelph. He currently resides in Cambridge, Ontario.
Rae crossmaN
Rae Crossman writes poetry both for the page and for oral performance. His poems have been published in literary magazines, broadcast on CBC Radio, and displayed on transit systems across Canada. Collaborative projects have ranged from storytelling to choral compositions to theatrical pieces performed in natural surroundings. His poems have been set to music by Alfred Kunz, Emily Doolittle, Oliver Schroer, and R. Murray Schafer. Rae serves as a consulting editor for The New Quarterly, an award winning Canadian literary magazine. In 2007 he was awarded a Waterloo Region Arts Award for his artistic endeavors across disciplines. http://www.kwartsawards.ca/section/view/?fnode=40 link to Waterloo Region Arts Award
Tilly kooymaN
Tilly is an active solo, chamber and orchestral musician with a special interest in contemporary music, and enjoys collaborating with artists of various disciplines. She has performed across Canada and toured Japan with the Higashi-Hiroshima Clarinet Ensemble. As a member of the bass clarinet duo Bass Impact, she performed at the World Bass Clarinet Convention in the Netherlands, and performed with poet/actor Rae Crossman at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest in Vancouver.
An advocate for new Canadian music, Tilly has premiered many new works that have been broadcast on CBC and West German Radio, and also premiered a new clarinet built on an alternative scale (Bohlen-Pierce) along with instrument maker Stephen Fox. She is one of the founders of tranSpectra, an ensemble of innovative artists that performs music in the Bohlen-Pierce scale and recently made its debut at the Open Ears Festival. During the past twenty years, Tilly has performed in many of R. Murray Schafer's multi-disciplinary works of the Patria Cycle that often take place in unique environments.
Tilly's education includes a Master of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario, an Associateship from the Royal Conservatory of Music and advanced studies at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. A former student of James Campbell and Robert Riseling, she has also studied 'Deep Listening' with Pauline Oliveros and free improvisation with Casey Sokol.
An advocate for new Canadian music, Tilly has premiered many new works that have been broadcast on CBC and West German Radio, and also premiered a new clarinet built on an alternative scale (Bohlen-Pierce) along with instrument maker Stephen Fox. She is one of the founders of tranSpectra, an ensemble of innovative artists that performs music in the Bohlen-Pierce scale and recently made its debut at the Open Ears Festival. During the past twenty years, Tilly has performed in many of R. Murray Schafer's multi-disciplinary works of the Patria Cycle that often take place in unique environments.
Tilly's education includes a Master of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario, an Associateship from the Royal Conservatory of Music and advanced studies at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. A former student of James Campbell and Robert Riseling, she has also studied 'Deep Listening' with Pauline Oliveros and free improvisation with Casey Sokol.
Marion samuel-stevenS
Soprano Marion Samuel-Stevens is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Voice Performance and is an avid supporter of new music and new performance practices. Marion was one of 8 semi-finalists in the 2008 Eckhardt-Grammatté competition and has worked with Richard Armstrong and Jaqueline Vaillancourt as well as the Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. Marion has performed Grigori Frid’s Diary of Anne Frank as Anne, Peter Skoggard’s new opera Stratas in the title role, Ruth in Ronald Beckett’s opera Ruth, Mark Adamo’s Little Women as Beth, as well as David Del-Tredici’s Alice with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. Operatic roles include Elle in La Voix Humaine by Poulenc, Hélène in Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück and Estelle in The Stronger by Hugo Weisgall, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute by Mozart and Titania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Oratorio highlights include Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vespers, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Lord Nelson Mass, and Creation. Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Gounod’s St. CeciliaMass, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and the Christmas Oratorio by J. S Bach, Brahms Requiem, and Mozart's Mass in C minor. Marion brings her love of movement and a great imagination to all projects that she is involved with!