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Peter Hatch
Jim Harley
Peter Hatch was the featured composer at this past November’s “Guelph Lecture: On Being Canadian.” On November 13, 2015, two of his string quartets—Forest for the Trees (2013) and Once Upon a Time (world premiere)— were performed by the Penderecki String Quartet in a multi-disciplinary evening that also featured authors Jaron Lanier and Lee Maracle. The latter work was also performed at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on November 28th. Peter is currently working on a collaborative full evening music-theatre-physics work called “Entanglement” that will premiere in May 2016 as part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound.
CMC Associate Composer Jim Harley is a leading scholar on the works of Iannis Xenakis, and Harley recently published a book entitled Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg. The book, published by Ashgate in 2015, explores, one of Xenakis’s most significant works. You can also read about a recent recording project, Spin, on page 82 of this issue of Notations.
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