Orchestras
Hamilton Philharmonic Orch. Newfoundland Symphony Orch.
Symphony Nova Scotia
Winnipeg Symphony Orch.
Ensembles
Atlantic Arts Trio
Atlantic String Quartet
Continuum
Duo Concertante
Penderecki Quartet
Toronto Chamber Choir
The Scruncheons
VOX 21 (Ireland)
Performers and Conductors Robert Aitken
Karin Aurell
Paul Bendzsa
Daniel Bolshoy
Tim Brady
Bill Brennan
Michelle Cheramy
Max Christie
Nancy Dahn
Omar Daniel
Marc David
Edmund Dawe
DJ Deb
Ginette Duplessis
Robin Engleman
David Fallis
Victor Feldbrill
Mark Fewer
Christine Gangelhoff
Peter Gardiner
Rivka Golani
Wallace Halliday
Caroline Hart
Thomas Heinrich
Don Hutton
Beverley Johnston
Lee Joiner
Lori Klassen
Ken Knowles
Gary Kulesha
Lynne Kuo
Liana Lam
Claude Lapalme
Jane Leibel
Thomas Loewenheim
Doug Miller
Jeffrey McFadden
Leslie Newman
Michael O'Toole
Shannon Peet
Rob Power
Barbara Pritchard
Sylvie Proulx
James Rolfe
Linc Smelser
Tim Steeves
Simon Streatfield
Kristina Szutor
Bramwell Tovey
Trevor Tureski
Maureen Volk
Don Wherry
Kaori Yamagami
(and others...)
Influences
John Adams, Chet Atkins, Johann Sebastian Bach, Chuck Barry, Bela Bartok, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Belgian Chocolate, Leo Brouwer, Ka Nin Chan, Roy Clark, Miles Davis, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doors, The Druglords of George Street, (early) Bob Dylan, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Manuel de Falla, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Enrique Granados, Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Sam Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Billy Idol, Keith Jarrett, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Carole King, Gladys Knight, Kraftwerk, Orlando di Lasso, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Witold Lutoslawski, Gustav Mahler, Bob Marley, Martha and the Muffins, Olivier Messiaen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Thelonius Monk, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nirvana, Johannes Ockeghem, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Charlie Parker, Arvo Pärt, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Maurice Ravel, Steve Reich, Pete Seeger, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu, Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Muddy Waters, Anton Webern, Wellbutrin, Stevie Wonder, and pretty much any world music.
Sounds Like
Charo, Jim Nabors, and William Hung. No, no, that's not it... More like Donald Duck, at least when I'm excited. Or Hervé Villechaise, esp. when I say "the plane, the plane!"
I compose contemporary classical music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, voice, and choir, as well as some electronic and jazz music. I have had dozens of works commissioned through various funding agencies (Canada Council, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Newfoundland Arts Council, and others), and my music has been broadcast numerous times on the CBC and performed frequently throughout Canada, and in the United States, England, and Ireland.
I am a professor of composition, music theory, and classical guitar at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a fairly large, East-coast Canadian university with an excellent music programme. I am also the founder and artistic director of the Newfound Music Festival, a contemporary music festival held every February in Newfoundland. I grew up playing rock, pop, jazz, blues, and country music, and only began studying classical music relatively late in life (I had already completed a B.A. in Humanities, and was working as a bus information operator). I continue to play and listen to all these types of music, and many of my compositions reflect my musical eclecticism.
Feedback is always appreciated! You can hear more of my music and download scores for almost every composition I have written at my website.
I was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, I also lived in Caracas, Lima, Quebec, New York City, New Jersey, Brussels, and Toronto, before moving to exotic Newfoundland in my mid-thirties.
I'm married to Jennifer, a professor of Religious Studies and Popular Culture and Star Trek fan/scholar, and I have three wonderful kids (ages 17, 6, and 2) and my other interests include reading, writing stories and journals, watching and playing baseball, cycling, hiking, and shopping.
Selected Music for Winds (click to listen or download scores) •Memory Quilt (flute and piano)
•Urban Dance Music (3 pieces for alto sax and audio CD, 18')
•Duck Soup (trombone, piano)
Selected Jazz Music (click to listen or download scores) •Urban Dance Music (3 pieces for alto sax and audio CD, 18')
•Late-Night Music (trumpet, piano, bass, drums)
•Jennifer's Tune (piano and bass)
Coming Soon! String Theory Recordings presents, STRR003: 0045 & El Nino "Act Like Ya Know" in stores December 8, 2009. Featuring 4 tracks of intelligent dance music, including mixes from, CC Rock (Breaks mix), 0045 & Ethan Klein (Disco House mix), Justin James (chicago) (Fidget House mix), and the original mix by 0045 & El Nino (Tech House mix).
Coming Soon! String Theory Recordings presents, STRR002: Dubclot "Yout Man", in stores November 24, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of Breakbeat dance music. Including mixes from Dubclot, Beat Mavericks, and James Nao.
My new CD is out now!! Please stop by my site www.jimjeffreymusic.com
and you can preview and download it from there. Stop by the live video
broadcast show Sunday night at 9pm PST when you can for some live tunes. www.blogtv.com/people/jimjeffrey
There is so much to hear on your page (and your website) that I'll need more time to dig into it. But the variety of sounds here is really impressive. These are pieces of great directness and communicative power. Beautiful stuff. Looking forward to checking out some of your guitar music. Hope we will be in touch.
dear clark Knowing that you like our music I thought I'd let you know that we have uploaded 4 new songs in our player, feel free to come listen... They are from our second CD which is now released and should be available in fine record stores close to you
Strings of Counsciousness : Fantomastique Acoustica (CD - Off Rds) www. myspace. com/offlabel
It offers 4 instrumental compositions + their remixes by:
Rothko (UK - BiP_HOp/Trace/Bella Union/Lo) Mira Calix (UK - Warp) Kammerflimmer Kollektief (DE - Staubgold) Gamial Trio (BE - Off) Leafcutter John (UK - Staubgold/Planet Mu) Scanner (UK - Bette/Sub Rosa...) Marsen Jules (DE - CCI) Sutekh (US - Context/Leaf/Soul Jazz/Mille Plateaux) Si-cut. db (UK - BiP_HOp)
Ciao Clark Ross - Una canzone è davvero bella quando le sue note giungono dritte al cuore! - A song is really beautiful when his notes come straight to the heart! - Una canción es realmente hermosa cuando sus notas vienen directamente al corazón!
Thanks for dropping in Clark. Good to hear from you. "Keep Looking for Jesus" is not new, but I had not posted it here before. Glad you liked it. Unfortunately I remain temporarily retired from composing.
hey clark, thank you for adding belgian hepc awareness. how very nice to see moorlandt in your top friends list. i love the song he did for us. and might i add: your music, gentleman, sounds great as well. regards from mortsel, belgium, xxx anja xxx
Thanks for your MySpace friendship.
Please stay in touch!
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Music by LERA AUERBACH
Choreography by JOHN NEUMEIER
Staatsoper Hamburg
July 1, 3, 14 • 2007
September 3, 4, 5, 6 • 2007
November 3, 5 • 2007
February 5 • 2008
Hello Clark, long time no hear. How's life in St John's? There a chance i will visit Canada next year, because my daughter's best friend just moved over there, and i more or less promised my daughter we'd visit her friend... Well, i'd love to travel to Canada myself some day, just a great excuse;)
Hey Clark,
Hope everything's great with you. Yes... it's done :-) Here's just a kind invitation to discover my very first album 'waiting again' on my website. Thanks so much, and love from brussels,
- Walt
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