| Keith Hamel | |
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| Born | 1956 Morden, Manitoba, Canada |
| Alma mater | Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto |
| Occupation | Composer, academic. |
Keith Hamel (born 1956, Morden, Manitoba, Canada) is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and computer.
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Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 1981), and A.M. and Ph.D degrees from Harvard University (1984, 1985). Between 1981 and 1984, he also studied Computer Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Barry Vercoe. Hamel also received composition instruction from Istvan Anhalt,[1] Donald Martino, Peter Maxwell Davies, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. He was a finalist in the 1986 CBC Young Composers Competition (percussion category), and also received four awards in the P.R.O. Canada Young Composers Competition.
Dr. Hamel has been on the Faculty at the UBC School of Music since 1987, and has been a Full Professor since 1997.[2] He is also an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), a Researcher at the Media Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC),[3] and is Director of the UBC Computer Music Studio.
Keith Hamel has been a visiting lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook, Queen's University, the University of Western Ontario, Simon Fraser University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, the University of Santa Barbara, the University of Washington School of Music, York University, IRCAM and several other academic institutions.[4][5]
ORCHESTRA AND LARGE ENSEMBLE
CHAMBER ENSEMBLES
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WITH INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS
SOLO INSTRUMENTS WITH INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS
VOCAL AND CHORAL
Ensemble Contemporain, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Ensemble, Elektra Women's Choir, ARRAYMUSIC, New Music Concerts, musica intima, Hammerhead Consort, Standing Wave, Hard Rubber Orchestra,[6] Robert Silverman, Robert Cram, Robert Aitken, Chenoa Anderson, Mark McGregor, Paolo Bartolussi, Jesse Read, Jean-Guy Boisvert, Julia Nolan, Douglas Finch and François Houle.
Vice President, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) (2003–2007) President, Canadian Music Centre (2002–2006) Board Member, Canadian League of Composers (1995–2005) Published by Editions Musicales Européenes (Paris), Cypress Editions (Vancouver) Keith Hamel is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
AMP represents the music of Paul Steenhuisen, Howard Bashaw, Keith Hamel, Bob Pritchard, James Harley, André Ristic, Gordon Fitzell, and Aaron Gervais.
Notewriter music notation software (1988–2007)
NoteAbility Pro music notation software (1996–present)
UBC Toolbox Processing modules for Max/MSP (2005–present)
IMuSE, the Integrated Multimodal Score-following Environment.
Hamel has been principal supervisor of several students who have proceeded to professional careers in music. These include: Bob Pritchard, David R. Scott, Gordon Fitzell, Brent Lee, Jocelyn Morlock, Jennifer Butler, Paul Steenhuisen, Mark Hannesson, David Litke, Lisa Miller and Ben Wilson.