John Rea (composer)

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John Rocco Rea (born January 14, 1944 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian composer.

Rea studied with John Weinzweig , Gustav Ciamaga , Milton Babbitt and Peter Westergaard . In 1968 he received the PRO Canada Award for composition students, the following year he won third prize at the International Ballet Music Competition in Switzerland with The Days / Les Jours .

In the period that followed, Rea received numerous commissions, including a. from the University of Toronto ( The Prisoners Play , 1972), the York Winds ( Reception and Offering Music , 1976), the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec ( staircase music , 1982) and the National Youth Orchestra ( Vanishing Points , 1983). For Com-Possession , a work commissioned by the CBC , he received the Jules Léger Prize for chamber music, which was awarded to him for the second time in 1992 for Objets Perdus .

Since 1973 Rea has taught composition, music theory and history at McGill University , where he was also the dean of the music faculty from 1976 to 1981. In 1979 he was one of the founding members of the Society for New Music Les Événements du Neuf . After a stay in Berlin from 1979-80 he was composer in residence in Mannheim in 1984 and composer in residence at the Incontri summer music festival in Terra di Siena in 1984 .

Rea composed chamber music, electroacoustic works, ballets, stage music, orchestral and choral works. His re-orchestration of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck , which premiered in 1995, received a lot of attention . He has also authored a number of music theory articles and is one of the editors of the French-language magazine for new music Circuit . In 2019 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada .

Works

  • Sonatina for flute and piano, 1965
  • Piece for Chamber Orchestra , 1967
  • Prologue, Scene and Movement (classical Latin palindrome) for soprano, viola and two pianos, 1968
  • Sestina for chamber ensemble, 1968
  • Fantaisies and / et Allusions for saxophone quartet and snare drum, 1969
  • The Days / Les Jours , ballet, 1969
  • What You Will for piano for 2 or 4 hands, 1969
  • SPI 51 for tape, 1969
  • STER 1.3 for tape, 1969
  • Anaphora for chamber ensemble, 1970
  • Anaphora II for piano, 1971
  • The Prisoners Play , children's opera, 1973
  • Reception and Offering Music 'Anaphora IV' for wind quintet and percussion, 1975
  • Jeux de Scène 'fantaisie-hommage à Richard Wagner' for horn, oboe, cello, piccolo, flute, piano, marimba, three carillon and blacksmith anvil, 1976
  • Hommage à Vasarely for orchestra, 1977
  • ... wings of silence ... for chamber ensemble and tape, 1978
  • Com-possession 'Daemonic afterimages in the theater of transitory states' for two chamber ensembles, 1980
  • Les Blues d'Orphée for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and piano, 1981
  • La Dernière Sirène for Ondes Martenot and percussion, 1981
  • Médiator '... pincer la musique aujourd'hui' for chamber ensemble, 1981
  • Staircase music for saxophone quartet, four clarinets, violin, viola, cello, double bass and tape, 1982
  • Vanishing Points for orchestra, 1983
  • Le Petit Livre des 'Ravalet' for historical instruments, tape and four storytellers, 1983
  • Litaneia (after Aristophanes ) for mixed choir and orchestra, 1984
  • Glide Reflexions for two clarinets and two cellos, 1984
  • Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes for flute, alto flute and string quartet, 1984
  • Spin for string quartet and piano, 1984
  • La capra che suona for ten saxophones, 1985
  • Some Time Later for string quartet, 1986
  • Open song for two sopranos and clarinet, 1986
  • Orchestration by Claude Viviers Pulau Dewata , 1986
  • Over Time for orchestra, 1987
  • Time and Again for orchestra, 1987
  • Brass Communicants , Fanfare for twelve wind instruments and four percussionists, 1987
  • Big Apple Jam for saxophone quartet and tape, 1987–91
  • Lièger Métal for chamber orchestra, 1988
  • Kubla Khan for chamber ensemble, 1989
  • Portrait of a Man in Elysian Fields "Hommage à Morton Feldman" for piano, 1989
  • Las Meninas 21 Variations on Schumann 's Scenes for Children for Piano, 1990–91
  • Objets Perdus , string quartet, 1992
  • Une Fleur du mal for soprano, clarinet, cello and percussion, 1992
  • Canto di Beatrice , melodrama for two sopranos and two cellos, 1992
  • Débâcle for chamber orchestra, 1992
  • Re-orchestration of Alban Bergs Wozzeck , 1992–95
  • ... a rolling stone! for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello, 1993
  • Zefiro torna for orchestra, 1994
  • One after the other! for chamber orchestra, 1994
  • Alma & Oskar (melodrama from beyond the grave) for voice and piano, 1995
  • Plus que la plus que lente for alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion and conductor, 1996
  • Incidental music for Les trois derniers jours de Fernando Pessoa by Antonio Tabucchi , 1997
  • Great Stones for chamber choir, 1997
  • Études multiples for wind quintet and piano, 1997
  • Urfaust — tragédie subjective (after Goethe and Pessoa) , incidental music, 1999
  • Bettina , melodrama for voice and piano, 1999
  • Re-orchestrated Alexina Louie's O Magnum Mysterium — In Memoriam Glenn Gould , 1999
  • Lautari , Trio for violin, cello and piano, 1999–2000
  • Music, according to Aquinas for chamber choir, two clarinets and cello, 2000
  • Sacrée Landowska , music theater, 2001
  • Incidental music for Catoblépas by Gaëtan Soucy , 2001
  • J'ignore si j'étais un homme rêvant alors que j'étais un papillon, ou si je suis à présent un papillon rêvant que je suis un homme for 27 players and Disklavier, 2001
  • Homme / Papillon for orchestra, 2002
  • Submergé for oboe and piano, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Class of 2019 / Promotion 2019. Royal Society of Canada / Société royale du Canada, accessed September 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rea, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rea, John Rocco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario