Featured CHORAL scores
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Text by Lotte Kramer
Published by Cypress Choral Music
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Based on “Angels We Have Heard on High”
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Text by Julie Flett
Published by Cypress Choral Music
RECORDINGS featuring Alex’s music
NEWS
It is so remarkable to hear my older music through fresh ears!
Since 2009, "Scintillator" for solo singer (text by email spambot) has been the domain of Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, who not only premiered and toured the piece, but received the spam email at its heart.
Then soprano Heather Pawsey took "Scintillator" and made it her own, for Redshift Music Society's UNACCOMPANIED video series. Hers is a grounded interpretation with surprising suddenness in the transitions - bringing out the beauty of the spam-wrought lines, then teleporting somewhere impossible…
Swoop-ga-woop!
Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra just shared a hilarious new music video of my piece "gibbons vs Gibbons" starring the Odin Quartet.
Alex Toškov (who also edited the video) and Tanya Charles Iveniuk struggle to play through a viol duet by English Renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons, as a pair of white-cheeked gibbon apes (voiced on cello and viola by Samuel Bisson and Veronica Lee) sing, swoop down and swat them. See my full program notes below the video…
The SPOGreatMusic podcast just released an episode profiling the Odin String Quartet’s album project. Host Daniel Mehdizadeh spoke with Odins Samuel Bisson and Alex Toskov about the repertoire, and the composers talk about their pieces in their own words.
My piece gibbons vs. Gibbons will be on the album, and I spoke about it (in an animated manner!) for the podcast.
Alex’s debut album “A Present From a Small Distant World” is now OUT and available!
To celebrate, we held a Virtual Album Launch Party online on Sunday Feb 21.
The event included filmed performances by Kristin Mueller-Heaslip and Jennifer Tran, a new music video of the title track, and chats with everyone who worked on the album.
The complete hour-long event is now available to watch at your leisure on Youtube!
A Present From a Small Distant World drops on February 19, and I’m thrilled to have one early review out.
Nieuwe Noten is a contemporary music blog from the Netherlands, so this very thoughtful review is in Dutch.
Read the full translation on the Reviews page:
Since the beginning of December 2020, The Grand Salto Theatre has been releasing short videos featuring friendly clowns BeeBo and Bop discovering fun activities around their home.
A longtime collaborator with Zita Nyarady (one half of The Grand Salto), Alex Eddington composed theme music and cues for the videos.
The new album from junctQín keyboard collective includes a wonderfully mysterious, murky, crash-bang recording of my most aptly named piece: "Big Muddy" for piano six hands.
Starting in 2020, Alex Eddington is available for online workshops with your class, ensemble, club or group.
Visit the WORKSHOPS page for details
Workshops for any age, can be tailor-made to your group’s needs.
UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
A Present From a Small Distant World - Alex’s debut album! - drops this February.
And we won’t let COVID stop us from celebrating…on Facebook Live!
Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 2:45 PM EST
Classical guitarist Daniel Ramjattan will premiere “Beyond the Heliosphere” by Alex Eddington - alongside many other Canadian performers and pieces old - on the Canadian Music Marathon at the 2019 21st Century Guitar Conference in Ottawa.
A Present From a Small Distant World by Alex Eddington was selected from 800 submissions to be part of KC VITA choir’s annual Summer Series concerts in Kansas City, MO. This will be a world premiere.
Art Song Collaborative Project presents Cries of the Earth, featuring art songs and mini-operas by 13 Canadian and international composers.
Alex Eddington wrote the libretto and music for a mini-opera, Albatross Smorgasbord.
ANNE is a play by Paul Ledoux, adapted from Anne of Green Gables” by Lucy Maude Montgomery.
Alex Eddington arranged Atlantic Canadian folk songs, composed new music and lyrics, and acted as Music Director for this production.
Alex Eddington composed music and sound design for Franz Ferdinand Must Die, a new solo show by Adam Bailey of Still Your Friend productions (Adam Bailey is on Fire, The Life Henri, Adult Baby Cupid, Dirty Little Coward: The Assassination of Robert Ford).
Franz Ferdinand Must Die is travelling to 3 Fringe festivals in Summer 2019: Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton.
Alex Eddington composed music and sound design for Destiny USA, a new solo show by Laura Anne Harris (Pitch Blond, The Homemaker, Red/Rouge).
Destiny USA is travelling to 5 Fringe festivals in Summer 2019: Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Victoria.
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Text from a speech by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA