Keynote Speaker
Internationally acclaimed composer, performer, humanitarian, and pioneer, Pauline Oliveros has forged new ground, written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of “Deep Listening” and “sonic awareness.” Her career spans fifty years of boundary-dissolving music making. She has been vocal about representing the needs of individual artists, the need for diversity and experimentation in the arts, and promoting cooperation and good will among people.
International Guests
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Joe Bates — Composer • Founder, Filthy Lucre (London, UK)
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Susanna Eastburn – Chief Executive, Sound and Music (London, UK)
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Henk Heuvelmans – Director, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, NL)
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Koen Kaptijn – Trombonist, Splendor (Amsterdam, NL)
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Sonia Stevenson – Artistic Director, Lichfield Festival and St Andrews Voices Festival (Lichfield / St. Andrews, UK)
National Guests
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Sarah Albu – Vocalist (Montreal, QC)
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Ruby Kato Attwood – Vocalist • Artist (Montreal, QC)
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Erin Bardua – Soprano • Co-Artistic Director, Essential Opera (Sackville, NB)
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Maureen Batt – Soprano • Co-Artistic Director, Essential Opera (Halifax, NS)
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Tim Brady – Artistic Director, Bradyworks • Composer • Electric Guitarist • Founder, CNMN (Montreal, QC)
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Kyle Brenders – Composer • Multi-Instrumentalist • President, CNMN (Toronto, ON)
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Tim Crouch – Flutist • Director of Marketing and Development, Toy Piano Composers (Toronto, ON)
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Moshe Denburg – Composer • Founder, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (Vancouver, BC)
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Ben Dietschi – Managing Artistic Director, Spectrum Music • Saxophonist, Composer (Toronto, ON)
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Aimé Dontigny – Director, Music Section, Canada Council for the Arts (Ottawa, ON)
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William Echard – Musicologist • Professor, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)
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Matthew Fava – Director, Ontario Region, Canadian Music Centre (Toronto, ON)
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Adrian Fung – Vice President of Innovation, Toronto Symphony Orchestra • Cellist and Producer, Afiara Quartet (Toronto, ON)
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Jonathan Goldman – Associate Professor of Musicology, Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal • Editor-in-chief, Circuit, musiques contemporaines (Montreal, QC)
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Isak Goldschneider – Artistic and Executive Director, Innovations en concert (Montreal, QC)
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Jim Hiscott – Composer • Producer • Accordionist • Co-Artistic Director, Groundswell (Winnipeg, MB)
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Frank Horvat – Composer • Pianist (Toronto, ON)
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Ruth Howard – Artistic Director, Jumblies Theatre (Toronto, ON)
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Rachel Kiyo Iwassa – Pianist • Founder, Queer Arts Festival (Vancouver, BC)
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Véronique Lacroix – Conductor • Artistic Director, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) (Montreal, QC)
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Nicole Lizée – Composer (Montreal, QC)
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Simon Martin – Composer • Artistic Director, Projections libérantes (Montreal, QC)
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Melody McKiver – Violist, Anishinaabe musician, and media artist • Producer, Red Slam Collective (Toronto, ON)
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Jared Miller – Composer and Pianist (New York, NY / Victoria, BC)
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Tania Miller – Conductor • Music Director, Victoria Symphony (Victoria, BC)
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Luke Nickel – Composer • Co-Director, Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival (Winnipeg, MB)
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Juliet Palmer – Composer • Artistic Director, Urbanvessel (Toronto, ON)
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David Pay – Founder and Artistic Director, Music on Main • Board member, CNMN (Vancouver, BC)
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Monica Pearce – Composer • Founder, Toy Piano Composers (Toronto, ON)
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Jerry Pergolesi – Artistic Director, Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto, ON)
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Craig Pedersen – Trumpet player, Composer, and Educator (Montréal, QC)
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Juliana Pivato – Artist • Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough (Toronto, ON)
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Dylan Robinson – Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist • Assistant Professor & CRC in Indigenous Arts, Queen’s University, Scholar, Sto:lo Nation (Kingston, ON)
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Alexander Shelley – Conductor • Music Director, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, ON)
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Russell Smith – Author and Cultural Critic, The Globe and Mail (Toronto, ON)
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Darcy Spidle – Creative Director / Founder, OBEY Convention (Halifax, NS)
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Jesse Stewart – Composer • Improviser • Director of Mud Lake Symphony project, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)
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Isabella Stefanescu – Visual and Media Artist • Artistic Director, Inter Arts Matrix (Kitchener/Waterloo, ON)
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Kiya Tabassian – Artistic Director, Constantinople • Composer • Setar (Montreal, QC)
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Paul Théberge – Canada Research Chair, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)
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Margaret Tobolowska – Cellist • co-founder and Artistic Director, Leading Note Foundation (Toronto, ON)
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Ellen Waterman – Professor, School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, NL)
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Gayle Young – Composer • Council Member, Canadian League of Composers (Grimsby, ON)
Check back here, the list keeps growing. (Subject to change without prior notification — 29 november 2015).