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Redshift Radio

Redshift Radio

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 Redshift Radio is a new podcast showcasing contemporary music in Canada.

Host Adrian Verdejo will interview some of Canada’s most prominent figures in the contemporary classical music community, highlighting the diverse voices in Canada’s new music scene, and showcasing various selections from the growing catalogue of Redshift Records. https://redshiftrecords.org/
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Episodes
  • Episode 17 - Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and Rodney Sharman

    Episode 17 - Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and Rodney Sharman
    Jun 3 2024
    Episode 17 of the Redshift Radio Podcast features an interview with pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and composer Rodney Sharman. They join Adrian Verdejo to discuss their latest album Known and Unknown Solo piano works by Rodney Sharman Available on Redshift Records: https://redshiftrecords.org/new-releases/tk539/When composer Rodney Sharman was 21, he swore to himself that he’d never do anything other than music to make a living. For over 40 years, he’s kept that promise. Rodney began composing at age 10 while growing up in the small town of Biggar, SK. As a kid he taught himself to play recorder, flute and oboe, and took clarinet lessons. He made a first attempt at writing for orchestra around age 13, but lacking proper score paper he drew his own and copied it at school. At 15, Rodney began composition lessons with Murray Adaskin in Victoria. Since then he’s become an internationally celebrated composer. He’s won the Kranichsteiner Prize in Germany, the CBC Young Composers Competition and the Walter Carsen Prize, among many others. He’s been resident composer for the Vancouver Symphony, the Victoria Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. He’s closely collaborated with choreographer James Kudelka and film director Atom Egoyan and has a PhD from the State University of New York. He’s an all-around musical mensch who loves mentoring young composers and supporting the work of his contemporaries. Rodney’s instrumental music often blurs distinctions between harmony and timbre. He writes operas and cabaret songs. He loves to explore historical western music (operas by Wagner and Mozart, works by Schumann and Scarlatti), transforming musical artifacts into something new. Rodney remains totally engaged with the sense of possibility that creating music offers – that transcendental experience when the ego disappears and there’s nothing but the music to let him know what to do. http://www.rodneysharman.com/ RACHEL KIYO IWAASA “Keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse” (Georgia Straight) Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa is among Canada’s foremost contemporary music pianists. Rachel’s reputation for fearless performative risk has inspired many of Canada’s most notable composers to write for her, including Hildegard Westerkamp, Rodney Sharman, Jocelyn Morlock, Cris Derksen, Nicole Lizée, Farshid Samandari, Emily Doolittle, Jeffrey Ryan, Leslie Uyeda and Jordan Nobles. Rachel’s work as a recording artist is available from Redshift Records and earsay music. While grounded in the European classical tradition, Rachel explodes expectations of what is possible at the piano, flowering in liminal collisions between artistic genres. Her www.iwaasa.com interdisciplinary adventures include work with artist SD Holman; film director Nettie Wild; playwright David Bloom; choreographers Jennifer Mascall, Idan Cohen and Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg; and multi-media provocateur Paul Wong. With SD Holman, Rachel co-founded the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver, acknowledged as one the top three festivals of its kind in the world. Rachel lives and works on the sovereign unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC. Rachel and Rodney would like to thank SD Holman, David Kohlruss, Ken Gracie and Philip Waddell, Anthony de Mare, David Bloom, David Pay, DB Boyko, Jerry Pergolesi, Jordan Nobles, Ortwin Stürmer, Lydia Kwa, Mark Takeshi McGregor, Peter Eliot Weiss, Sunny Drake, Thalia Myers, The Banff Centre, and each other. Redshift TK539 www.redshiftrecords.org ©2024 Rachel Iwaasa and Rodney Sharman Dedicated in loving memory to Inger Iwaasa, 1930-2020, without whom this album (and so much more) would not have been possible. We gratefully acknowledge the McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund, held at Vancouver Foundation, for commissioning Known and Unknown, and the Canada Council for commissioning support of Opera Transcriptions, Book 3.https://www.iwaasa.com/Website: https://redshiftradio.org/Podcast Produced by Adrian Verdejo
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 16 - Remembering Jocelyn Morlock

    Episode 16 - Remembering Jocelyn Morlock
    Oct 5 2023
    Redshift Radio Episode 16- Remembering Jocelyn Morlock with guests Mark Takeshi McGregor, Jennifer Butler, Jordan Nobles and Rachel Iwaasa.

    Jocelyn Morlock was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, BC.

    Jocelyn taught music composition at the UBC School of Music for many years. She was a dedicated music educator and cared deeply for her students and the community. Her composition My Name is Amanda Todd, commissioned and premiered by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year. She was also the Composer-in-Residence for Music on Main (2012-2014) and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2014-2019).

    She received her Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Brandon University, and both a Master’s degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia. “With its shimmering sheets of harmonics” (Georgia Straight) and an approach that is “deftly idiomatic” (Vancouver Sun), Morlock’s music has received numerous national and international accolades, including Top 10 at the 2002 International Rostrum of Composers, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Music in Vancouver (2016) and the JUNO award for Classical Composition of the Year (My Name Is Amanda Todd, 2018).

    Jocelyn was also presented with a Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian Music by the Canadian Music Centre in BC on December 4, 2018, after winning the Trifecta of a Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award, a Western Canadian Music Award, and a JUNO award, all in one year.

    She is survived by her longtime partner and love, John Korsrud, family, and the many friends who loved her.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 15 - John Oliver

    Episode 15 - John Oliver
    Jun 29 2023
    John Oliver is a composer, guitarist, and electronic musician based in Vancouver. On this episode he discusses his formative years as a guitar student and how he started composing. John discusses his guitar music, his approach to working with musicians of varied musical backgrounds, and his recent electronic music.
    https://www.johnolivermusic.com
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    1 hr and 1 min
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