Paul Crawford (composer)

Paul Duncan Crawford (born August 21, 1947 in Toronto ) is a Canadian composer , organist , radio producer and music teacher .

Crawford took piano lessons from William Pengelly and received a bachelor's degree in Gregorian chant from St Michael's Cathedral Choir School in 1966 . In Toronto he studied organ with Kenneth Meek and composition with Harry Freedman and Bruce Mather at McGill University and piano with Lubka Kolessa and organ with Raymond Daveluy at the Conservatory . After attending St Augustine's Seminary (1971–72), he worked as a music producer for the CBC radio in Toronto (1972–76) and Ottawa (1976–77). He also worked as a church organist in Toronto, Montreal and Hamilton.

From 1977 to 1990 Crawford lived in Nelson, where he gave private piano and composition lessons and composed a number of pieces for teaching purposes. From 1990 he taught at the Victoria Conservatory , from 1991 at Camosun College . He composed works such as Féerie (1970), L'azur for orchestra (1971), La Nuit Étoilée (1972, world premiere and recording with the Vághy String Quartet ), O Quam Gloriosum Est (1976) and Lyric Piece for Orchestra (1978). His Quintet for Brass (1975) was performed at the San Diego Festival of Canadian Music in 1987 . His musical comedy I've Always Wanted to Ride a Streetcar, based on a libretto by James Hoffman , premiered in Nelson in 1987. In 1987 he wrote the Selkirk Music for the Selkirk Chamber Orchestra . In 1990 he went to Victoria, where he studied psychology and educational science and earned master's and doctoral degrees (1995 and 1998, respectively). He lives in Trail / where he runs a private music studio.

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• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Paul Crawford
• Canadian Music Center - Paul Crawford: Biography