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Gordon Rumson
Composer, Pianist, Author and Storyteller |
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| COMPOSITION STUDIES | Burton Beerman | |
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| William Albright |
Leslie Bassett
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Gordon Rumson
Composer, Pianist, Author and Storyteller |
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| COMPOSITION STUDIES | Burton Beerman | |
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Leslie Bassett
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PIANO STUDIES
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Vladislav Kovalsky
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DEGREES ATTAINED
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| Master of Music (Piano Performance) 1985 University of Michigan |
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Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance) 1983 University of Calgary
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CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
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Editor of a multi-volume publication of the Compositions of Gunnar Johansen
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| PERFORMANCES AS PIANIST | ||
| Music at Noon, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, Calgary, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004 | ||
| Musical Mosaic 1-19 Concerts June 1997 to November 2006 Calgary | ||
| Creston, B.C. September 2003 Cochrane, Alberta, Spring 2003 |
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| American Liszt Society Festival in Hamilton, Ontario, November 2000 | ||
| “A Handful of Piano Music” at the Chinook Keyboard Centre. Performing upon three Historical Pianos and tuned in characteristic temperaments Calgary, November 1999 | ||
| Transcendental Etude No. 4 Mazeppa by Liszt at the American Liszt Society Festival in Hamilton, Ontario (on one week’s notice) October 1994 | ||
| Concerts in Switzerland, August 1991 | ||
| Concerts in Calgary, Ann Arbor and Detroit, Michigan, Windsor, Ontario, Bowling Green, Ohio 1987 – 1999 |
| COMPOSITION PERFORMANCES | ||
| Poem for Gilels, Michael Kieran-Harvey, pianist | Hobart, Tasmania, Fall 2006 | |
| In Memoriam: Alan Hovhaness, for Oboe and String Orchestra | Yerevan, Armenia, April 2004 | |
| Psalm 23, (Choir and Organ) | St. Matthew’s United Church, Winter, 2004 | |
| 3 Preludes, Vladislav Kovalsky, pianist | Calgary, November 2003 | |
| Trio, (Violin, Piano and cello) | DePaul University, Chicago, March 2003 |
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| Kyrie, (Choir) | St. Matthew’s United Church, Fall, 2002 | |
| Structural Fantasy, Carson Cooman, organist, | Harvard, USA, November 2001 | |
| Go, Now and Dream, Caroline Horne, mezzo-soprano, | Contemporary Showcase, Calgary 2001 | |
| 3 Preludes, Marcel Bergmann, pianist, | Land’s End Concert Series, Calgary, 2000 |
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| Kyrie, (SATB soloists) | Calgary, 2000 | |
| Four Antiques, (piano) | Calgary, 1999 | |
| Chaconne by Pachelbel, (arranged by G. Rumson for piano) | Calgary, 1999 | |
| Maelstrom, (keyboards, Peter Moller, percussion, Caroline Horne, mezzo-soprano) | Calgary, 1999 | |
| Three Preludes, Carson Cooman, pianist | Rochester NY, 1998 |
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| Two Preludes from Three Preludes, (piano) | Detroit, 1997 | |
| Epithalamium, (piano) | Calgary, 1997, Halifax, 1994, Cochrane, 2003, Creston 2003 | |
| Fantasy 1994, Kent Holliday, pianist, | Virginia, 1996 | |
| Kyrie, (SATB choir and organ) | Lethbridge, March 1996 (?) | |
| 15 Aphoristic Conceits, (piano) | Calgary and Switzerland, August 1991 | |
| Threnody for John Ogdon, (piano) | Calgary, Alberta, November 1990 Requested for Canada Music Week | |
| Kyrie, (SATB choir and organ) | Calgary, March 1989 | |
| Fantasy 1987, (piano) | Detroit, 1987 | |
| For Flute, Marni Rachmiel | Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1987 |
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| Suite, Angela Brand, conductor, (chamber orchestra) | Bowling Green, Ohio, 1986 |
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ORGANIST
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Pleasant Heights United Church, Calgary, Alberta 1988-1991
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| CHOIR DIRECTOR AND ORGANIST | |
| St. Matthew’s United Church, Calgary, Alberta 2002-2005 |
| AWARDS | ||
| Fleeting Time: Honourable Mention in Studea Musica Awards 1998 (Published 1999) | ||
| Two Choral Fragments: Finalist in 1995 His Majesties’ Clerkes Choral Composition Competition |
| LITERARY AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (“Wilfrid Mellers” and “Arthur Fickénscher”) Many articles, poetry and reviews published by The Journal of the American Liszt Society, The British Liszt Society Journal, International Piano, The Double Reed, American Organist, Impromptu, Tempo (Alberta), The Canadian Music Teacher, Piano Guild Notes, The Wisconsin Academy Review, The Calgary Herald, Music and Vision, The Beehive, etc. |
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
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| Founding Member of The Alberta Arts Medicine Network 1995 – 2000 |
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| Founder of Denis ApIvor Society and Editor of The Denis ApIvor Newsletter 1997 – 2000 | ||
| Editor of the Newsletter of the Friends of Gunnar Johansen 1997 – 2000 | ||
| Member of T.A.L.E.S. (Alberta Storytellers’ Association) 1998 – 2000 | ||
| Member of Ronald Stevenson Society 1996 – present | ||
| Second Vice-President ARMTA Calgary Branch 1995 – 1996 | ||
| Member of ARMTA 1990 – 1998 |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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| Piano, Music Theory, Composition, History, Calgary, Kamloops and Windsor, Ont., 1980 – 2005 | |
| Young Composer’s Workshop, Fall 2003 |
| ADJUDICATION | |
| APTA Music Festival, Calgary 2002, 2003, 2006 | |
| Land’s End Chamber Ensemble Composition Contest 2002, 2003 and 2004 |
| INSTRUCTION, LECTURES AND PUBLIC SPEAKING | ||
| Lecture: Reclaiming 19th Century Performance Practice, CFMTA National Convention, July 2005, Calgary, AB | ||
| Storytelling at Halloween Festival, Calgary Public Library, 2003 |
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| Two Lecture Demonstrations on J.S. Bach and 19th Century Performance, Calgary, August 2003 | ||
| “Nietzsche and Wagner: The Death of a Sound World” for Nietzsche Symposium, 2002 | ||
| Story telling at Ramsay Elementary School, January, 2002 | ||
| November 2001: Lecture at Mount Royal College on Arthur Friedheim's edition of the Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. | ||
| Storyteller in Tellebration Concert, November, 2001 |
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| Speaker at APTA Convention, Red Deer, Alberta Fall, 2001 | ||
| Lecture Demonstration on 19th Century Piano Performance, Cantos Music Museum, Calgary 2000 | ||
| Storyteller, Calgary Winter Festival, 2000 | ||
| Frequent Guest Host for The CMC Presents CJSW Radio 1998 – 2000 | ||
| Preconcert Presentation Calgary Philharmonic November 1998 | ||
| Facilitator in Marriage Preparation courses offered through the Pastoral Institute Calgary 1992 – 1994 |
| PREMIERE PERFORMANCES | ||
| Denis ApIvor | The Lyre Playing Idol | (First North American Performance), November 1997 |
| 4 Easy Pieces | June 1998 | |
| Keith Barnard | Angelic Nocturne | (First Canadian performance), February 7, 2003 |
| The Mantric Energy of Silence | February 7, 2003 | |
| Resurrection | April 11, 2006 | |
| Carson Cooman | Dream-Tombeau: Crucifixus, Op. 516 | April 11, 2006 |
| George Fenwick | Fickle | 1999 |
| André Froelicher | La petit minotaure | (First Canadian performance), February 1989 |
| 5 Lullabies for a Never-Born | August 1991 | |
| Selections from Fun for Fritz | August 1991 | |
| Stephen Hansen-Smythe | Theme and Variations | 1998 |
| Gunnar Johansen | Sonata II ‘Pearl Harbor, December 6, 1941 – Premonitions?’ | (First Canadian Performance), February 1991 |
| Toccata in the Phrygian Mode | (First Canadian Performance), March 1990 | |
| Sonata XXIII “Trilogie der Leidenschaft” | (First Canadian Performance), November 1997 | |
| Ballade For Lorraine | (First Canadian Performance), June 2003 | |
| Sonata (1975) (also entitled Sombre Poem) | June 1998 | |
| Leo Ornstein | Song Without Words #1 (with Caroline Horne, mezzo- soprano) | November 1997 |
| Larry Sitsky | The Way of the Seeker | March 25, 2006 |
| K.S. Sorabji | 4 Frammenti Aforistici | August 1991 |