Jeffrey Ryan

Composer of music for orchestras, choirs, chamber groups, opera companies... pushing notes around on the page is my specialty.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

Permanent DST would delay sunrise in Vancouver past 8am for 4 months, and past 9am for 1 month, every winter. We need morning sunlight to thrive. Tell Premier Eby to stop this!

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@richardzussman So we’ll be pretending noon is 1:00 pm forever? Getting up an hour earlier every day according to our body clocks? Disaster.

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It’s here!

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New from CMC Centrediscs! 💿 Nouveauté CMC Centredisques !

Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation
https://t.co/cD6W14HufT

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor / chef d'orchestre
Text / texte : Suzanne M. Steele
Music / musique : Jeffrey Ryan Composer

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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 @VSOrchestra and the Hugh Davidson Fund.

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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…)

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Note to all composers: write your scores in C. The usual octave transpositions are ok. I spent 6 weeks deciphering the chords in Elektra. After that I decided I’ll not put any conductor colleagues through that unnecessary ordeal with my own scores.

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@sarahdaceyuk My "Unheard" songs (poetry by Rachel Rose) are for unaccompanied soprano with notated movement. Rachel's poems give voice to female characters of myth and literature who go unheard in the original stories. Four, but can be performed separately. https://t.co/8sKPDXZ49V

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Framing the climactic aria from @zenfandango and my chamber opera "The Laurels" as a murder confession is absolutely inspired. Thank you @RedshiftSociety and especially Heather and Indra!
https://t.co/fZw75EFhfv

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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.

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"Legacy" is another short work for unaccompanied trumpet, this one in three movements and aimed at intermediate players and amateurs. It's also available for free download on my website https://t.co/0O2I0TDkAh

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The mail came! Excited to get my advance copy of trumpeter Adam Zinatelli's début CD, including my solo trumpet pieces "Open and Shut" and "Legacy". Out on @LeafMusicInc Nov. 10.

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"Open and Shut" is a virtuosic piece for trumpet, one in a series of short works for unaccompanied brass instruments. It's available for free download on my website https://t.co/vQfBiBh1xU

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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.
https://t.co/Axcv5voqiy

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Chuffed that my and librettist @zenfandango 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_rcm. Tix are only $20. This Friday (link), repeats on Saturday. https://t.co/7aqbAPHeqi

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

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Thanks @OrchidEnsemble (@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 @SOCANFoundation.

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

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

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Krisztina's recording with pianist Steven Philcox was released last year as part of @CanadianArtSong's "Found Frozen: Songs of Jeffrey Ryan" on the @cmcnational Centrediscs label. You can hear it on Bandcamp here: https://t.co/EXG0YvZdup

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Congrats to all the @BreakOutWest WCMA classical nominees, but especially mezzo Krisztina Szabó for the nod for her (award-worthy!) performance of my art song monodrama "Miss Carr in Seven Scenes" which I wrote for her thanks to Canadian Art Song Project. #artsong #emilycarr