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John Abram |
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John Abram was born in England in 1959. After composition studies at Keele University with Roger Marsh and Peter Dickinson he moved to Canada in 1984 to study at the University of Victoria with Rudolf Komorous (composition) and Doug Collinge (electroacoustic music). From 1986 to 1988 he was Associate Director and Conductor of the Open Space New Music Series at the Open Space Gallery. Living in Toronto from 1989 to 1994, he co-founded The Drystone Orchestra and was a member of ARCANA, also performing with ARRAYMUSIC, Strange Companions and others. From 1994-2008 he lived in Calgary and was on the teaching staff at Mount Royal College Conservatory, also running the Technology Lab there and engineering and producing MRC's recording projects. John has also been active in film and multimedia work - recent collaborators include Marla Hlady, Gary Burns, Barbara Sutherland and Blue Heron Media. He now lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
John's music has been heard around the world, performed by Guido Arbonelli, Arcana, Arraymusic, Brandon Chamber Players, The Burdocks, Concentus Corvinus, Continuum, Les Coucous Bénévoles, The Drystone Orchestra, Eve Egoyan, Electra, Interensemble, Rosa Selvatica, George W. Welch, Windsor Symphony Orchestra and others.
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