Double-header release day! "Everything Already Lost" (poems by Jan Zwicky) on tyler & @ErikaSwitzer's "A Left Coast" on Bridge Records, Inc. , and "Bellatrix" on Christopher Whitley's solo violin album "Describe Yourself" on RedshiftMusicSociety. Grateful to these amazing performers.

When the mail comes and it's a package of Chris Whitley's new CD with my "Bellatrix" on it! Chris is on 🔥and oh the sound he gets from the Canada Council for the Arts's 1700 "Taft" Strad! (Which is rest assured not actually on 🔥). "Describe Yourself" @redshiftmusic / @bandcamp. Go, get!

"At the core of the album is Jan Zwicky's poem 'Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17' set to music by Jeffrey Ryan in 'Everything Already Lost'." Hear tyler and @ErikaSwitzer's gorgeous performance from their new album 'A Left Coast' here: youtu.be/f_5xDc_peYs #artsong

Celebrating the maestro: Last evening a few Vancouver friends gathered to mark what would have been Bramwell Tovey O.C.’s 70th birthday. Gone too soon, lovingly remembered, ever missed. Christopher Gaze #Bramwell

Tonight! Thanks to Dion and Pierre-André for including my Cavafy songs "Of Passion's Tide".🌈

Thanks Orchid Ensemble (Lan Tung erhu, Dailin Hsieh zheng, Jonathan Bernard percussion) for a great workshop on "Noctiluca", inspired by the beauty and danger of the "Blue Tears" algae blooms of the East China Sea (and elsewhere). Supported by SOCAN Foundation.

With writer James Fagan Tait and singer/hurdy-gurdist Bud Roach, workshopping our queer troubadour songs "Fin'amor" in residence at Canadian Music Centre BC's Adaskin Salon. What a gift to be in the room together, immersed in collaborative energy! Thanks Canada Council for the Arts for the support.

Chuffed that my and librettist Michael MacLennan Michael Lewis MacLennan's little opera "The Laurels" is part of the Glenn Gould School's evening of short Canadian chamber operas at Toronto's The Royal Conservatory. Tix are only $20. This Friday (link), repeats on Saturday. rcmusic.com/events-and-per…

Calgary, this Sunday afternoon at cSpace, Astralis presents a string quartet concert including my String Quartet #3 (sonata distorta), a study in obsession and madness based on Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata. Plus quartets by Mozart and Swoboda. cspacemardaloop.com/event/astralis…

Every track on this album is a gem of a performance from a profoundly amazing team. Grateful for the gift of my "Everything Already Lost" (poems by Jan Zwicky) being part of it.

Framing the climactic aria from Michael MacLennan and my chamber opera "The Laurels" as a murder confession is absolutely inspired. Thank you RedshiftMusicSociety and especially Heather and Indra! youtube.com/watch?v=AIqXxS…

This. Orchestral scores in C. The conductor needs to know how it sounds, the player needs to know how it’s played. (Band scores on the other hand, that transposed tradition will never go away…)

Past halfway on the orchestral version of my song cycle "Miss Carr in Seven Scenes". A challenge to transform the original piano into an orchestra. But with the voice of Krisztina Szabó in my head, who needs more inspiration? Thanks to Vancouver Symphony and the Hugh Davidson Fund.

It’s here!