Andrew Paul MacDonald
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Andrew Paul MacDonald, a Canadian composer, was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1958.
He earned a DMA in Composition at The University of Michigan in 1985. His compositions have been performed in many countries including England, Norway, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States and Australia, as well as in Canada by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Esprit Orchestra, l'Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Evergreen Club and the I Musici de Montréal. He has had works commissioned by outstanding orchestras, chamber ensembles, solo performers, music competitions, the Canadian Opera Company and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His works are frequently broadcast on CBC and Société Radio-Canada. He has also had many of his compositions recorded on compact disc and has won prizes for his works, including the 2005 East Coast Music Award for Jasper Wood's recording of "Great Square of Pegasus", which also won the 2005 Independent Music Award, and the 1995 Juno Award for “Best Classical Composition” for his Violin Concerto.
As well as being a full-time composer, Andrew Paul MacDonald was Vice-President and Council member of the Canadian League of Composers from 1993-1997 and is currently Artistic Director of Ensemble Musica Nova. He performs in concert as a classical and electric guitarist and as a conductor, and is chairman and professor of composition and electronic music at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Québec.
Biographical articles on MacDonald are to be found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001) and the Canadian Who's Who (annually since 1998).
[edit] Discography
- 2005, "For There and Then", The Evergreen Club
- 2004, "Quintette à Vent Estria"
- 2004, "Quintette à Vent Estria"
- 2004, "The Great Square of Pegasus", Jasper Wood
- 2004, "Wild Honey", Timothy Steeves and Nancy Dahn
- 2000, "Premieres!", Arthur Campbell
- 1998, "Harbord Street", Trio Lyra
- 1998, "Among Friends", Trio des Iscles
- 1996, “20 years of resistance to genocide in East Timor”
- 1995, "Canadian Music for Chamber Orchestra", Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
- 1993, "Orchestre Mondiale des Jeunesses Musicales"
- 1991, “Music for the Open Air”, Quatuor Claudel
- 1991, “Passage through Time”
