The June 13 presentation of New Music for Old Hands includes the world premiere of The First Song I Remember… for bell choir and piano, by Alex Eddington. Composed in collaboration with the members of a bell choir in a Mississauga seniors’ home, the piece unlocks the memory of an Italian song that several of the participants remembered from childhood: “Quel Mazzolin del Fiori”.

Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.

Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.

Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.

Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.

A concert by the Winds of the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra - featuring Alex Eddington as narrator in Three Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Bruno Degazio (world premiere).

VIVA Singers Toronto proudly presents “Metamorphosis,” a celebration honouring VIVA’s 25th anniversary. This special program features all 7 VIVA choirs.

Featuring 4 world premiere adaptations of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses - including “Phaeton and Apollo” by Alex Eddington.

Sound Opportunity Choir presents 20 Years of Song

Featuring the world premiere of Big Blue Sky for choir and piano by Alex Eddington.

Big Blue Sky was commissioned by Sound Opportunity through a Choral Canada fundraising initiative. The test was created collaboratively with the choir

Includes the Ontario premiere of What is Passion? by Alex Eddington

A choral concert featuring works that draw on themes of passion, strife, and love from Canadian composers (Saman Shahi, Alex Eddington, Natalie Wong, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Healey Willan and more)

Includes the world premiere of Barter by Alex Eddington (text

A choral concert featuring a vibrant selection of multilingual works by composers including Reena Esmail, Timothy Corlis, Robert Delgado, Aiko Tomi, and more!

In this energetic and interactive session, participants will learn many quick activities to inject energy and focus into rehearsals. This collection of theatre games by Augusto Boal and Viola Spolin - as well as "ear cleaning" activities by composer R. Murray Schafer - has been handpicked and adapted for use with choirs of any age. Circle games, partner games, improv structures and listening challenges: all of these can build musical skills and confidence - and they are FUN. Participants will receive a bilingual handout with game instructions and additional resources.

Canadian premiere!

On this unique evening, appreciate the insights of our masterful tour guide Dr. Sharon Morsink, as she ushers us through her world of astrophysics in a series of captivating mini-lectures. 

Complement the experience with transcendently beautiful music selections that were inspired by the same awe-inspiring extra-terrestrial subjects. 

The opening concert of our 2021-2022 season will feature repertoire performed with the intention to evoke a passionate emotional response in both the performer and listener. The world premiere of a commissioned work by Canadian composer Alex Eddington will highlight the collaborative nature of Phoenix.

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.

Adam Scime is premiering new Canadian pieces for left-hand piano,.

In my piece “The Opera Game” Adam talks and plays his way through translations of a famous chess game into music, as it becomes increasingly detailed and dramatic.

Alex Eddington’s string quartet piece gibbons vs. Gibbons will receive a second performance by the Odin Quartet in a concert presented by Spectrum Music in Toronto on Saturday, April 6.

“Jests in Time” is a concert of music cross-pollinating with comedy, so this piece - in which a very serious Renaissance duet for viols (by Orlando Gibbons, naturally) is attacked and invaded by a pair of swooping, whooping gibbon apes - is a natural fit.