Sonic Grace
Our Sonic Grace audio blog is a place where musicians and composers tell us about a piece of music that changed everything.
Margareta Jeric - Partiels composed by Girard Grisey
"One of the pieces that had a profound impact on me and propelled me to start composing is Gerard Grisey’s Partiels (1975). I can’t even…
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Émilie Girard-Charest - Kottos by Iannis Xenakis
Playing Kottos is a lesson in humility. I have been working on this piece since 2014, and I have presented it in concerts all around…
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Rachel Mercer - Starsail
Composed by Kevin Lau
One of the greatest gifts that can be given to a musician is trust. When trust exists - whether it comes from the audience, a…
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Aysel Taghi-Zada - Paramirabo composed by
Claude Vivier
"Claude Vivier's Paramirabo is a special piece for me. It is one of the first pieces of new music that I worked on extensively, beginning…
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Danielle Buonaiuto - A Small Handful by Gilda Lyons
"I started performing A Small Handful at a pivotal point in my artistic practice performing contemporary music; I had started to develop work that was…
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Sophie Dupuis - Music for Lamps by Adam Basanta, Julian Stein, and Max Stein
Concert experiences have always made a strong impression on me. It’s probably why I’m so drawn to multidisciplinary works and why I seek to incorporate…
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Sarah Belle Reid - Quatre Couches by Pamela Z
I first stumbled across a video of Pamela Z's Quatre Couches performance on a snowy day in December, just after my first semester of grad…
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Lynn Kuo - Synchronisms No. 9 for Violin and Tape Composed by Mario Davidovsky
The year that Mario Davidovsky was invited to be the Featured Composer at the University of Toronto’s New Music Festival, I was invited by Professor…
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