Our CASP Commissions | Canadian Art Song Project (original) (raw)

Our Board and wide array of Artistic Partners all take great pride in the work that we do at CASP.

Through a combination of commission sponsors, donor support and artistic good will, we have Commissioned several new works to date and have only just begun. Please have a look below for a history of our announced commissions to-date.

• 2012 Brian Harman — Sewing the Earthworm (text by David Brock)
  Premiered by soprano Carla Huhtanen and pianist Steven Philcox
• 2013 Norbert Palej — Cloud Light (text by Jan Zwicky)
  Premiered by tenor Lawrence Wiliford and pianist Steven Philcox
  *Roger D. Moore
• 2013 Brian Current — Extreme Positions and Birefringence (text by bpNichol and Christian Bök)
  Premiered by soprano Simone Osborne and pianist Anne Larlee for Jeunesses Musicale Canada
• 2014 James Rolfe — Moths (text by André Alexis)
  Premiered by baritone Brett Polegato and pianist Steven Philcox
  *Ontario Arts Council & Canada Council for the Arts
• 2015 Marjan Mozetich — Enchantments of Gwendolyn (text: Gwendolyn McEwen)
  Premiered by mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy and pianist Adam Sherkin
  *Cynthia Tape
• 2015 Peter Tiefenbach — The Long Walk Home (text by James Ostime)Premiere by baritone Geoffrey Sirett and pianist Peter Tiefenbach
  *Chung-Wai Chow & John Wright
• 2015 Eric Ross — The Living Spectacle (text by Charles Baudelaire – Roy Campbell, translation )
  Premiere by soprano Ambur Braid and pianist Steven Philcox
  *Ambur Braid
• 2017 Ana Sokolovic — TBA,
  Premiere by COC Ensemble Studio (Quartet)
  *Canada Council for the Arts
  *denotes commission sponsor