A showcase of Vancouver's New Music scene, from Canada's most prominent and internationally known luminaries to the brightest rising stars of the coming generation. The only composer who resides outside Vancouver, Emily Doolittle, will be contributing the only planet outside our solar system, Gliese 581c.
 | Jocelyn Morlock's music has been performed across Canada, in the United States and Europe by ArrayMusic, CBC Radio Orchestra, Continuum Contemporary Music, Musica Intima and Steven Isserlis, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra among others. Her Lacrimosa represented Canada at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (Paris, 2002), and has been broadcast in twenty-one countries. | | | |  | Alexander Pechenyuk's symphonic and chamber compositions have been performed at concerts and festivals throughout Russia, the European Union, and Canada. His composition Parallax, recorded by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in 2001, will be performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in February 2007. | | | |  | Jennifer Butler's music has been performed by many Canadian ensembles such as: Arraymusic, Four Gallon Drum, Standing Wave, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Her experimental ensemble CURV, with composer-performers Kristy Farkas and Marci Rabe, created a large collaborative work with Continuum Contemporary Music in Toronto this past April. | | | |  | Rodney Sharman's music has been performed by ensembles and soloists in more than thirty countries and by orchestras in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. He was the Vancouver Symphony's Composer-in-Residence from 1997 to 2000 and the VSO's Composer/Music Advisor from 2000 to 2001. | | | |  | Marci Rabe is an active composer and completed an M.Mus. at the University of Victoria after having received a B.Mus., Honours Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University. Vancouver New Music, Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal Music, Continuum Contemporary Music, Aventa and NUMUS are some of the ensembles and organizations that have commissioned and presented her music. In 2005, a full concert of her work was presented by CONTACT Contemporary Music at the Music Gallery in Toronto. | | | |  | Jeffrey Ryan's compositions have been performed and broadcast across Canada and internationally. His commissions include works for the Vancouver Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Arditti Quartet, and the Penderecki Quartet. He is currently composer-in-residence with the Vancouver Symphony, and composer advisor for Music Toronto. | | | |  | Emily Doolittle has written for such ensembles and performers as Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, soprano Janice Jackson, pianist Eve Egoyan, and the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal. A founding member of the "Concert I t/m IV" composers collective and concert series in Amsterdam, she is currently developing new music festival in Mostar, Bosnia. | | | | |
