Compositions

  • Aviva Swims. SSAA + single baseline accompaniment - flexible instrumentation (5:00) Premiere by the Aeolian Singers, Halifax NS date tbd 2020.

    And is this all? What one poor kiss? SATB+Accompaniment (4:00) Premiered by Canzona in Winnipeg, March 1 2020.

    Crooked by Nature. 2020. SSAATTBB (5:30) Premiered by Luminous Voices in Calgary, AB, February 2020.

    Where Waters Meet. 2019. SSAATTBB (18:00) Premiered by the Canadian Chamber Choir in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in October 2019. Repeat performance in Edmonton, Oct. 2019.

    The Raven Translations. 2019. Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Violin. Premiered by Ensemble Resonance, Calgary AB, April 2019.

    In the Merry Month. 2016. SATB and piano (4:00) Premiered by Aurora Chorealis in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in April 2016. Repeat performance in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in April 2017

    The Ice Seasons. 2015. SSAATB (30:00) 2 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos and Soundfiles. Premiered by Spiritus Chamber Choir, Calgary AB, March 2017. Repeat performance March 26 2017 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    Solstice Shadows. 2014. SATB and piano (6:00) Premiered by the Whitehorse Community Choir, 2014

    Lake Skin. 2014. SSAATTBB and solo soprano (5:30) Premiered by the Elmer Isler Singers 2014

    Winter Lullaby. 2014. Soprano and Piano (4:00) Premiered by Jennifer Humphries Micaleff and Linda Wong at the University of Calgary New Music Festival in Calgary, Alberta in January, 2014. Performed again at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario and Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia 

    The Light Thief. 2014. Voice and Electroacoustics (3:00) Premiered at Northern Scene, Ottawa 2012 in connection with the National Arts Centre. Alberta Premiere May 2014, University of Calgary. Finland Premiere at ArtArctica Festival in Helsinki, Finland in February, 2016

    La Terre Attend. 2012. SATB, flute, violin, cello (3:40) Commissioned by Yellowknife Choral Society and Classics On Stage Yellowknife, premiered November 2012 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    Sparrows. 2010. SATB (4:30) Written for the Yellowknife Choral Society, premiered 2010

    In a Grand Pre Garden. 2010. Soprano and clarinet (4:00) Commissioned by the Canadian Music Centre. Premiered at the Acadia University Shattering the Silence New Music Festival 2010

  • The Seed Knows. 2020. Violin and piano (5:00) Commissioned by Duo Concertante, premiere pending summer 2020.

    Ghost of a Giant in the Ground. 2020. Trombone and percussion (8:00) Commissioned and premiered by Dale Sorensen and Joël Cormier, Mount Allison University January 2020.

    The Raven Translations. 2019. Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Violin. Premiered by Ensemble Resonance, Calgary AB, April 2019.

    In the Marrow Lives a Woman. 2018, revised 2019. (8:15) Piano trio + percussion. Premiered by the Land’s End Ensemble, June 2018

    Magnetic North. 2016. Violin and piano (6:45).

    Foxy Fox’s Musical Games. 2018. Arrangements available for Violin and Piano, Viola and Piano, Cello and Piano (10:00) Commissioned by the Eckhardt-Gramatée Competition.

    Every Freeze is Different. 2018. Flexible instrumentation, 9 parts (8:00) Premiered by the Problematic Orchestra in Whitehorse, Yukon. Commissioned by the Longest Night Society. December 2018 

    Bend, Willow Branch - Revised. Revised 2019 with different instrumentation. Oboe, cello, violin (3:30)  Commissioned by Classics On Stage Yellowknife. Premiered May 2019 in Wolfville NS, for recording on the Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars album.

    Bend, Willow Branch. 2017. Clarinet, cello, violin (3:30) Commissioned by Classics On Stage Yellowknife. Premiered June 2017 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

    What Happens When We Move. 2017. Wind Quintet (10:00) Commissioned by Fifth Wind, Canada 150. Premiere Sept 2018 by Choros in Montreal, Quebec

    Frost under Fire. 2017. Piano and cello (15:00) Premiered June 2017 by the Cheng2 Duo in Ottawa, Ontario

    Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars. 2017. Flute, oboe, horn, and string quartet (20:00)

    Sky Eyes. 2016. Soprano and piano trio (4:00) Premiered by the Gryphon Trio and PSky Eyes.atricia O’Callaghan in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, December 2016. Repeat Performances in Inuvik, Fort Smith, and Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

    The Rest of Night. 2015 (8:00) Clarinet and contrabass. Premiered by GroundSwell in Winnipeg, Manitoba in December, 2015

    The Bedrock Cycles. 2014. Piano trio (6:00)

    Candle Ice. 2014. Piano trio and electroacoustic track (10:00 mins)

    The Raven Conspiracy. 2013. String quartet (10:00)

    First Frost. 2013. Piano trio (5:00) Premiered by the Gryphon Trio in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, January 2013

    Splitting Wood. 2009. Solo Marimba. (6:00) Premiered by Anthony Savidge, Wolfville NS, March 2005

  • She Rides Her Bike with a Cello on Her Back and a Baby in the Basket. 2022. String Orchestra + Percussion. (8:00). Commissioned+premiered by the Orchestra Classique de Montréal.

    Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars. 2017. Flute, oboe, horn, and string orchestra (20:00).

    Blood Echo. 2017. (3:00) Chamber orchestra

    Parhelia. 2014. (6:15) Orchestra (2.2.2.2. 4.3.3.1. perc. (2.), str. (4.4.1.2.2.))

    End of the Road. 2010. (4:00) Commissioned by the Northwest Territories Performing Collective to compose, arrange and direct the finale of the NWT Showcase performed at a medal ceremony and several large venues at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia

  • Yenene Yati /Arnat Oqaussiit / Women’s Words. 2018. Directed by Micheline Chevrier. Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    The Breathing Hole. 2017. Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario. Directed by Reneltta Arluk

    Sedna: Goddess of the Sea. 2013. Table D’hôte Theatre.  Premiere at the Segal Centre in Montreal, Quebec

    Inside Out. 2013. Yellowknife Dance Collective. Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    The Odd Couple. 2011. Director Michelle Letourneau. Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    My Brother’s Keeper. 2010. Director Heather Ross. Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

  • I Can Finally Feel the Sun - Choreography by Tomiko Robson, performed by Echo Chamber - Yellowknife / Edmonton 2023

    Raven Conspiracy - Choreography by Alysa Pires, performed by Echo Chamber - Toronto / Ottawa (2022), and Yellowknife, Edmonton (2023)

    Silver Lining. 2016. Electroacoustic - for dance - premiered at ArtArctica Festival in Helsinki, Finland. Composition for contemporary dance Sinking/Floating 

    Threads of Memory. 2016. Solo piano - for dance - premiered by the Yellowknife Dance Collective in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

    The Character of Two. 2014. Saxophone and Percussion - for dance - premiered at Mainstage, University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta

    Mad Trapper of Rat River. 2013. Piano, voice, saxophone, drums, guitar - for interdisciplinary theatre. Premiered by the Borderless Art Movement. at the Atlin Arts and Music Festival in Atlin, British Columbia in July 2013. Second performance at Folk on the Rocks Music Festival in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in July 2013

    Sedna. 2012. 4 female voices, clarinet, flute, percussion, cello and electroacoustics - for interdisciplinary theatre. 45-minute production of electroacoustics, live performers, spoken word, live painting and dance of the Inuit legend of the sea goddess Sedna. Supported by the NWT Arts Council, and the Borderless Art Movement!, premiered Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in March 2012

  • Come Fall. 2016. Aidan Cartwright, stop motion animation

    Wide Quietness. 2015. Electroacoustic work Inopa Naipo included in a new media poem about swimming pools by Pierre Tremblay

    Chasing Ninth. 2013. Composer, performer, recording technician for music in a 90-minute documentary of a bicycle race across America

    Tundra Cowboy. 2013. Composer, performer, recording technician for the music for a 17-minute documentary of a reindeer herder in Inuvik, Northwest Territories

    Song for the Dead. 2010. Composer, performer, recording technician for the music for a 15-minute short film 

    Yellowknife Soundscape. 2009. Electroacoustic track (5 mins)