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CHAN
KA NIN | A two-time Juno Award winner for Best Classical
Composition. His works have been performed by notable ensembles
and artists including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National
Arts Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic
Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra,
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra London Canada, Symphony
Nova Scotia, Amici, Mirò Quartet, Purcell Quartet, Rivka
Golani and Lawrence Cherney.
His numerous international
awards include Béla Bartók International Composers'
Competition, Barlow International Competitions, International
Horn Society Composition Contest, Jean Chalmers Award, PROCAN
Young Composers' Competition and Amherst Saxophone Quartet Composition
Competition.
Professor Chan was born in
Hong Kong and moved with his family to Vancouver in 1965. At
the University of British Columbia he studied composition with
Jean Coulthard while pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering. After graduation he decided to continue studying
composition with Bernhard Heiden at Indiana University where
he eventually obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees in music.
Since 1982, he has been teaching theory and composition at the
University of Toronto.
In 2001, his opera Iron Road,
written with librettist Mark Brownell, won the Dora Mavor Moore
Award for Outstanding New Musical. In 2002, his chamber work
Par-çi, par-là, which was recorded by Ensemble
Contemporain du Montréal, won the Juno Award for Best
classical composition. In his 2010 chamber work The Consequential
Web of Life, he built a six foot instrument called "Parlour"
to represent a spider's web, a symbol of defining moments in
one's life.
Chan Ka Nin's choral work,
She Who Hears the Weeping World, recently represented Canada
at the ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music) World
Music Days 2011 in Zagreb, Croatia. His chamber work for Sheng
and string quartet was performed by Wu Wei and the St. Lawrence
String Quartet during the Dresden Music Festival earlier in May
2011.
Webmaster's Note:
Sample of CHAN Ka Nin's works
are obtainable from the following websites:
Iron Road, Act I - Prologue,
the Old World
http://www.musiccentre.ca/influences/composer.cfm?
authpeopleid=190&themeid=1
www.musiccentre.ca
[Candian Music Centre, under composer
CHAN Ka Nin, audio]
www.chankanin.com
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