Janet Danielson

Janet Danielson - M. F. A. (California Institute of the Arts) Janet Danielson is a composer whose works have been performed in England, the U.S., and Canada by ensembles ranging from the Vancouver Chinese Instrument Ensemble to the Vancouver Symphony and CBC Radio Orchestras. Her recent commissioned works include an opera, The Marvelous History of Mariken of Nimmigen, commissioned by Music in the Morning; The Occupation, a song collaboration with poet Robert Bringhurst, for baritone, marimba and viol da gamba; and In the Very Highest Place, a setting Wu Li’s poetry for chorus and the Orchid Ensemble (marimba, zheng, erhu) premiered November 2007. Her realization of Verbum Caro, a 17th-century Canadian Ursuline carol, was premiered in Rome at Christmas 2007, and a string quartet for the Royal Society of Canada Symposium on War and Peace in November 2008.

She has taught courses related to music theory, analysis, music and culture, and composition at Simon Fraser University and at Regent College, and has authored a text, Basic Organization of Music. Her articles have been published in Musicworks and in the Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Composers’ League. Danielson is former Associate Artistic Director of Vancouver New Music and ChairAssociation of Canadian Women Composers, and has served on the Executive Council of the Canadian League of Composers. She is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. Janet is currently working on a cello sonata for the 2010 Vancouver Music/Grail conference, and a work for string orchestra and erhu for its premier at Sonic Boom 2010.

As the 2010 Sonic Boom Composer in Residence, Janet Danielson will lead the Student Composer Masterclass on Sunday, April 11, 2010 (TBA) at the Western Front located at 303 East 8th Ave. Vancouver, British Columbia.