2026
January 17, 2026 (WORLD PREMIERE): The orchestral version of Miss Carr in Seven Scenes will be premiered by mezzosoprano soloist Krisztina Szabó and the Vancouver Symphony, conducted by Music Director Otto Tausk, at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
January 21, 2026: Fata Morgana will be broadcast on CBC Music’s About Time hosted by Tom Allen.
January 26, 2026 (CANCELLED DUE TO A REALLY REALLY BIG SNOWSTORM): Debris from Scar Tissue (words by Michael Redhill) will be performed by Nordic Voices at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music’s Walter Hall in Toronto, Ontario. Part of the UT New Music Festival.
January 27, 2026: Scar Tissue (poems by Michael Redhill) will be performed by Nordic Voices and the Gryphon Trio at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, in Toronto, Ontario. Presented by Music Toronto.
January 29, 2026: Growth and Renewal from Scar Tissue (poems by Michael Redhill) will be performed by Nordic Voices and the Gryphon Trio at the Maureen Forrester Recital at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Part of the Laurier Guest Artist Series.
February 22, 2026: The Length of a Day (poems by Michelle Poirier Brown) will be performed by tenor Colin Ainsworth and pianist Laura Loewen at Walter Hall at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. Watch the livestream beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on YouTube here.
February 27, 2026 (WORLD PREMIERE): Noctiluca will be premiered by the Orchid Ensemble at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts, Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia. Presented by CapU Classics.
March 11, 2026: The Trouble With You Is…, from Five Portentous Preludes, will be performed by One, Two, Trio (Katherine Evans, trumpet; Valerie Whitney, horn; Jeremy Berkman, trombone) at Pacific Spirit United Church in Vancouver, British Columbia.
March 14, 2026: Chimera will be performed by the Gryphon Trio at the Centre Wakefield la Pêche in Wakefield, Québec. Part of a chamber music festival presented by Collines-en-musique.
March 15, 2026 (WORLD PREMIERE): This Exact Shade of Moon (poems by Yusuf Saadi) will be premiered by the Penderecki String Quartet with special guest soprano Leslie Fagan, as part of the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Music’s 50th anniversary season, at Laurier’s Maureen Forrester Recital Hall in Waterloo, Ontario.
March 21, 2026: Noctiluca will be performed by the Orchid Ensemble at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Part of the Sonic Boom Festival presented by CapU Classics.
April 18, 2026: Excerpts from Found Frozen (poems by Helen Hunt Jackson) will be performed by soprano Camille Labonté and pianist Xuan He as part of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition at Brandon University’s Lorne Watson Recital Hall in Brandon, Manitoba.
May 1, 2026: The world premiere recording of The Laurels will be released on Redshift Records, featuring soprano Jacqueline Woodley, baritone Nathan Keoughan, and conductor Rosemary Thomson. Digital recording available for streaming and download purchase in all the usual places.
May 16, 2026 (WORLD PREMIERE): Mother/Land (libretto by Michael Lewis MacLennan inspired by The Book of Ruth) will be premiered by the Vancouver Bach Choir with soloists Heidi Duncan, Krisztina Szabó, Simran Claire, and Luka Kawabata, all conducted by music director Leslie Dala, at the Vancouver Playhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia.
May 30, 2026: Noctiluca will be performed by the Orchid Ensemble at Jig Space in Vancouver, British Columbia.
June 26, 2026 (WORLD PREMIERE): Fin’amor (songs from a former criminal) will be premiered by tenor/hurdy-gurdist Bud Roach at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Presented by the Queer Arts Festival.