Rodney Sharman

Rodney Sharman (born May 24, 1958 in Biggar , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian composer, flautist and music teacher.

Sharman acquired his first musical knowledge self-taught. He composed, gave his first flute concerto at the age of sixteen and began to teach during this time. One of his first students was the pianist Eve Egoyan . He then studied at the Music School of the University of Victoria , the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University at Buffalo . His main teachers were Murray Adaskin , Rudolf Komorous , Brian Ferneyhough , Morton Feldman , David Felder , Frederic Rzewski , Louis Andriessen and Lukas Foss . In 1984 he received first prize at the CBC Competition for Young Composers , and in 1990 the Kranichstein Music Prize .

1983–1984 Sharman was a guest composer at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. As composer in residence , he worked with the Vancouver Symphony from 1997-2000 , the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2004 and the Victoria Symphony from 2008-2010 . From 1991 to 1995 he was President of the Canadian Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music , and from 1993 to 1998 President of the Canadian League of Composers . He has worked as a teacher at Wilfrid Laurier University , the University of British Columbia Music School and Simon Fraser University .

His extensive compositional work, including operas and ballets, instrumental concerts, chamber music works, pieces for solo instruments, choral works and songs, but also cabaret songs, have been performed in more than 40 countries around the world and at festivals such as the Bourges Festival in France, Ars Musica in Belgium, International Gaudeamus Music Week , Festival Confrontaties and Holland Festival in the Netherlands, Wien Modern in Austria, the Nyyd Festival in Estonia, the Almeida Festival and the Huddersfield Festival in Great Britain, the World Music Days of the International Society for New Music in Canada, Mexico, Germany and Switzerland, the North American New Music Festival , the New Music Across America , the Sub-Tropic Music Festival and Bang On A Can in the USA and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Germany.

The performance took place under the direction of Kazuyoshi Akiyama , Mario Bernardi , Andrey Boreyko , Sergiu Comissiona , Charles Dutoit , Hans Graf , Eri Klas , Pavel Kogan , Tania Miller , Ed Spanjaard , Bramwell Tovey , Bruno Weil and other conductors, with ensembles like that Aventa Ensemble , the Vancouver New Music Society , Arraymusic , the Ensemble Exposé , Het Nieuw Ensemble , the Arditti String Quartet , the Quatour Bozzini and the St. Lawrence String Quartet and with soloists such as the pianists James Clapperton , Anthony de Mare , Michael Finnissy , Louise Bessette , Yvar Mikhashoff and John Snijders , the organist Hans Ola Ericsson , the violinist Denise Lupien , the double bass players Stephano Scodanibbio and Robert Black , the flutist Camilla Hoitenga , the harpsichordist Colin Tilney , the harpists Erica Goodman , Ernestine Stoop , Sharlene Wallace and Rita Costanzi and the singers Valdine Anderson , Brett Polegato , Benoit Boutet and Romain Bischoff .

In collaboration with the choreographers Marie-Josée Chartier , David Earle , Christopher House and James Kudelka , ballets were created for the dancer Benoît Lachambre , the Toronto Dance Theater , the Oregon Ballet Theater , the San Francisco Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada . The chamber opera Elsewhereless, based on a libretto and directed by filmmaker Atom Egoyan , premiered in Amsterdam in 1998 and then played more than forty times in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.

Works

Meditation for violin (1975)
Piece for Harp Solo (1979)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1979)
LEVEL for woodwind quintet (1980)
Kore for harpsichord (1980)
Orestes - a chamber opera (1980)
Narcissus for piano (1981)
The Black Domino for tape, 1981
Towards White for bassoon and live electronics (1982)
The Black Domino for organ (1982)
Chiaroscuro for orchestra (1982)
Towards White for flute and stereo tape (1983)
Parhelia for violin (1983)
In Transii For narrator and orchestra (Text: Joanne Griebel ) (1983)
Solidification for bass flute, bass clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp, percussion, violin and double bass (1984)
Canons and Ritornellos for six-part mixed choir and orchestra (Text: Joanne Griebel ) (1985)
Orpheus' Garden for double bass and string orchestra (1986)
Fandance for piano and percussion (1988)
Dark Glasses for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1988)
The Proximity of Mars for harp, piano and two percussionists (1988)
The Proximity of Mars for orchestra (1988/97)
Opera Transcriptions: Turandot for piano (1989)
September for three guitars (1989)
The Black Domino for three electric guitars (1989)
Cordes Vides for string quartet (1989)
In Deepening Light for double bass and piano (1989)
Predators of Light Ballet for stereo tape (1989)
Opera Transcriptions: Madama Butterfly for piano (1990)
Echo and Narcissus for string quartet and piano (1990)
Sleeping Beauty for clarinet, trumpet, two percussionists and double bass (1990)
Cordes Vides for harp (1990)
Nader tot U (text: Gerard Reve ) for baritone and instrumental ensemble (1990-92)
Opera Transcriptions: La Rondine for piano (1991)
Phantom Screen for soprano and orchestra (Text: Atom Egoyan ) (1991)
Apollo's Touch for Vivraphon (1992)
Opera Transcriptions: Carmen for piano (1993)
Elysium for organ (1993)
Nostalgia for flute, oboe, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1993) (on Brian Ferneyhough's 50th birthday)
Companion Piece for Harp (1993)
Anthem: Passing of the Claimant (Text: Chidiock Tichebourne ) for four-part male choir or mixed choir (1994)
After Truth for baroque flute and percussion (1994)
Opera Transcriptions: Les Pêcheurs de perles for piano (1995)
In Changing Light for orchestra (1995)
Canonic Toccata in celebration of Michael Finnissy 's 50th birthday for piano (1996)
Elsewhereless (Prelude, Scene 4) for alto flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, violin and double bass (1996/2011)
Canon and Acrostic in celebration of Vancouver New Music Society's 20th anniversary for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola and double bass (1996)
Romance for flute, soprano saxophone, piano, electric guitar and electric bass (1996)
Dedication for soprano and flute (Text: Rodney Sharman) (1996) (on Murray Adaskin's 90th birthday)
Slow Waltz for flute and piano (1997)
Archaic Smile for orchestra (1997)
Still Light - Fanfare for Chihuly for orchestra (1998)
Suspended Waltz for mandolin, guitar and harp (1998)
Variations on a Quiet Song for harp and string orchestra (1998)
Elsewhereless - a chamber opera (1998)
Letters for the Future (Text: Galileo Galilei ) for male choir, two harps, percussion and strings (1999)
Scarlattiana for orchestra (1999)
Symphony for orchestra (2000)
Short Dance for string quartet (2000)
The Anglo Tango for piano (2000)
Two Fanfares for soprano saxophone (2000)
Morning Fog - Souvenir of San Francisco for trombone, tuba or euphonium (2000)
Boa Constrictor for Tuba (2000)
Dances for solo harp (2000-04)
The Garden , musical theater for solo pianist (2001)
Four Seasons, One Tree for bass clarinet, trumpet, piano, two percussionists, violin and double bass (2001)
Romance (Hommage à Tchaikovsky ) for cello and piano (2001)
Weissherbst for flute (2002) (on Kaija Saariaho's 50th birthday)
In a room for guitar (2002)
Nocturne for bassoon and piano (2002)
Opera Transcriptions: La Jolie Fille de Perth for piano (2002)
Six Etudes for harp (2002–03)
Love - from Love, Beauty, Desire (Text: George Sandys ) for mixed choir (2002)
Liebesleid (Modern Love Waltz) (own text) for low voice and string orchestra (2002)
Love, Beauty, Desire (texts by Atom Egoyan , Gerard Reve , George Sandys , Rodney Sharman), for soprano, batiton, choir and orchestra (2002)
At Dusk for bassoon, harp, timpani and string orchestra (2002)
Winter Solstice (Text: Rodney Sharman) for mixed choir (2003)
Voyageur for piano (2003)
In Praise of Shadows for instrumental ensemble (2003)
Gilding the Lily (based on “La ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni) for soprano, baritone, flute and piano (2004)
Etude: Homage to Robert Schumann for harp (2004)
Intermezzo (lullaby) for guitar (2004)
Mirrors, Echoes for orchestra (2004)
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa for cello (2005)
Watchful for piano (2005)
Dry Leaves for two trumpets, two trombones, percussion, two violins, two violas, cello and double bass (2005)
Moments for (alto) flute, (bass) clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello (2003–05)
Song of Love and Loss (in memoriam Melanie Gold ) (Text: Rodney Sharman) for choir (2005)
Arsis and Thesis for flute and piano (2006)
Second String Quartet (2006)
The Ruins Proclaim the Building was Beautiful for orchestra (2007)
Incantion for bassoon, harp and string quartet (2007)
The Ruins Proclaim the Building was Beautiful , Ballet (2007)
Etude: for glissandi for harp (2008)
Departures for flute, oboe d'amore, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp, celesta or piano and percussion (2008)
festina lente for string quartet (2008)
Opera Transcriptions: L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Mercurio dal ciel in terra for piano (2008)
Music for Celtic Harp, Strings, Percussion and Celesta (2008)
Motet: Death Will Find Me (in memory of my father) (Text: Rupert Brooke ) for six-part choir (2009)
Couples, doubles, pairs for horn, two violins, viola, cello and double bass (2009)
Byrd Dances for orchestra (2009)
Pavane, Galliard and Variations for bass clarinet, piano and percussion (2009-10)
Notes on “Beautiful” for piano (2010)
Songs Without Words for horn, two percussionists and string orchestra (2010)
Romantic Ideals for Orchestra (2011)
Violin Concerto (2011)
Second Symphony for orchestra (2012)
Chamber Symphony for percussion, piano or celesta and harp (2012)
From the House of Mirth , Opera (2012)
From the House of Mirth , Ballet (2012)
Because of John Cage for bass trombone and harp (2013)
Opera Transcriptions: Tristan and Isolde for piano (2013)
Opera Transcriptions: Copernicus for piano (2014)
Former Ginger (Text: Rodney Sharman) for male choir (2014)
California Dutch for oud and string quartet (2015)
song about forgetfulness (lyrics: Bill Richardson ) for youth choir (2015)
Requiescat (Text: Oscar Wilde ) for mixed choir (2015)
Song for "The End" (Text: Wilfred Owen ) (2015)
She Walks in Beauty for soprano and lute (Text: Lord Byron ) (2015) (for Catherine Fern Lewis )
Obsessions (text: Alex Poch Goldin ) for deep voice and string orchestra (2015)
Song from Faust (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) for medium voice and string orchestra (2015)
Suspension for Inuit overtone singer, two flutes, gongs and string orchestra (2016)
Night / Song, Night / Dance for six percussionists (2016)
Gratitude for viola and piano (2016)
For Guitar (2016)
From the Mountains to the Pacific for cello and piano (2017)

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personal data
SURNAME	Sharman, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian composer, flautist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Biggar , Saskatchewan