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

• Joe Bates — Composer • Founder, Filthy Lucre (London, UK)

• Susanna Eastburn – Chief Executive, Sound and Music (London, UK)

• Henk Heuvelmans – Director, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, NL)

• Koen Kaptijn – Trombonist, Splendor (Amsterdam, NL)

• Sonia Stevenson – Artistic Director, Lichfield Festival and St Andrews Voices Festival (Lichfield / St. Andrews, UK)

National Guests

• Sarah Albu – Vocalist (Montreal, QC)

• Ruby Kato Attwood – Vocalist • Artist (Montreal, QC)

• Erin Bardua – Soprano • Co-Artistic Director, Essential Opera (Sackville, NB)

• Maureen Batt – Soprano • Co-Artistic Director, Essential Opera (Halifax, NS)

• Sandeep Baghwati – Composer • Director, matralab (Montreal, QC)

• Tim Brady – Artistic Director, Bradyworks • Composer • Electric Guitarist • Founder, CNMN (Montreal, QC)

• Kyle Brenders – Composer • Multi-Instrumentalist • President, CNMN (Toronto, ON)

• Tim Crouch – Flutist • Director of Marketing and Development, Toy Piano Composers (Toronto, ON)

• Moshe Denburg – Composer • Founder, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (Vancouver, BC)

• Ben Dietschi – Managing Artistic Director, Spectrum Music • Saxophonist, Composer (Toronto, ON)

• Aimé Dontigny – Director, Music Section, Canada Council for the Arts (Ottawa, ON)

• William Echard – Musicologist • Professor, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)

• Matthew Fava – Director, Ontario Region, Canadian Music Centre (Toronto, ON)

• Adrian Fung – Vice President of Innovation, Toronto Symphony Orchestra • Cellist and Producer, Afiara Quartet (Toronto, ON)

• Jonathan Goldman – Associate Professor of Musicology, Faculty of Music, Université de Montréal • Editor-in-chief, Circuit, musiques contemporaines (Montreal, QC)

• Isak Goldschneider – Artistic and Executive Director, Innovations en concert (Montreal, QC)

• Jim Hiscott – Composer • Producer • Accordionist • Co-Artistic Director, Groundswell (Winnipeg, MB)

• Frank Horvat – Composer • Pianist (Toronto, ON)

• Ruth Howard – Artistic Director, Jumblies Theatre (Toronto, ON)

• Rachel Kiyo Iwassa – Pianist • Founder, Queer Arts Festival (Vancouver, BC)

• Véronique Lacroix – Conductor • Artistic Director, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) (Montreal, QC)

• Nicole Lizée – Composer (Montreal, QC)

• Simon Martin – Composer • Artistic Director, Projections libérantes (Montreal, QC)

• Melody McKiver – Violist, Anishinaabe musician, and media artist • Producer, Red Slam Collective (Toronto, ON)

• Jared Miller – Composer and Pianist (New York, NY / Victoria, BC)

• Tania Miller – Conductor • Music Director, Victoria Symphony (Victoria, BC)

• Luke Nickel – Composer • Co-Director, Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival (Winnipeg, MB)

• Juliet Palmer – Composer • Artistic Director, Urbanvessel (Toronto, ON)

• David Pay – Founder and Artistic Director, Music on Main • Board member, CNMN (Vancouver, BC)

• Monica Pearce – Composer • Founder, Toy Piano Composers (Toronto, ON)

• Jerry Pergolesi – Artistic Director, Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto, ON)

• Craig Pedersen – Trumpet player, Composer, and Educator (Montréal, QC)

• Juliana Pivato – Artist • Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough (Toronto, ON)

• Dylan Robinson – Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist • Assistant Professor & CRC in Indigenous Arts, Queen’s University, Scholar, Sto:lo Nation (Kingston, ON)

• Alexander Shelley – Conductor • Music Director, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, ON)

• Russell Smith – Author and Cultural Critic, The Globe and Mail (Toronto, ON)

• Darcy Spidle – Creative Director / Founder, OBEY Convention (Halifax, NS)

• Jesse Stewart – Composer • Improviser • Director of Mud Lake Symphony project, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)

• Isabella Stefanescu – Visual and Media Artist • Artistic Director, Inter Arts Matrix (Kitchener/Waterloo, ON)

• Kiya Tabassian – Artistic Director, Constantinople • Composer • Setar (Montreal, QC)

• Paul Théberge – Canada Research Chair, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)

• Margaret Tobolowska – Cellist • co-founder and Artistic Director, Leading Note Foundation (Toronto, ON)

• Ellen Waterman – Professor, School of Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, NL)

• 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).