Howard Bashaw

Biography

Sample Works

Originally from White Rock, British Columbia, Howard Bashaw is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (DMA, 1989). He is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alberta where he teaches composition, orchestration, and theory and analysis. He has also taught at the University of British Columbia and at the Universite Canadiaenne en France.

Bashaw's repertoire ranges from solo piano to full orchestra. He has received commissions through the Canada Council for the Art, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the CBC Radio Music Department. His recent repertoire includes works written especially for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra with the Hammerhead Consort, the Societe musique de contemporaine du Quebec (SMCQ), the Vancouver New Music Society (VNMS), the Continuum Ensemble (London, UK), the EastWind Quartet, the New Age Orchestra, Duo Majoya (organ and piano) and Duo Kovalis (percussion and piano). In addition, his works for solo piano were premiered by Marc Couroux, Corey Hamm, Haley Simons, and Barbara Pritchard; some of these works have emerged in piano and contemporary piano competitions occuring in Britian, France, Japan and Canada.

Recordings include: the BASHAW double CD (2000, various artists, Arktos recordings, SRI Canada); Eolian Braid on the Traffic CD (1999, the Hammerhead Consort, Arktos Recordings, SRI Canada); and Horos on the Electric Counterpoint CD (1994, Niek de Groot, double bass and Tatjana Kykoc, guitar, Artelier Music, Cologne).

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