NEWS

Jeffrey Ryan at World New Music Days
Jeff will be one of a handful of composers representing Canada at the ISCM's World New Music Days festival in Sydney, Australia. Burn will receive its Australian premiere by Ensemble Offspring in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium. This concert available for webstreaming on the ABC Radio site here. Jeff was also featured in a live interview on ABC Radio May 1.

Jeffrey Ryan in residence with Hamilton Philharmonic
Jeff will be in residence with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra March 3-6, 2010 in conjunction with the HPO's performance of Equilateral with the Gryphon Trio and music director James Sommerville. Sponsored in part by the SOCAN Foundation.

Western Canadian Music Award nomination
Jeff's String Quartet #3 (sonata distorta) was nominated for a 2009 Western Canadian Music Award in the Classical Composition of the Year category. String Quartet #3 (sonata distorta) is recorded on the Penderecki String Quartet's CD Launch Pad.

NEW WORKS NOW AVAILABLE:

Burn for mixed quintet. Duration 12'

Dark Matters for large ensemble. Duration 16'

Fornax Chemica for solo piano. Duration 10'30"

Magpie for solo piano. Duration 1'10"

My Soul Upon My Lips for flute and piano. Duration 10'

Saturn (study in white) for solo piano. Duration 3'10"

Sing to the Ends of the Earth, Christmas carol for SATB choir and brass quintet. Duration 3'

NEW RECORDINGS

Saturn (study in white) has just been released by pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa as part of Cosmophony.

On Monsieur's Departure has just been released on a new CD by musica intima on the ATMA label.

After Storm and Angeline on Ossabaw has just been released on a new CD by the Canadian Chamber Choir, conducted by Julia Davids.