Beckwith: Calling – Instrumental Works, 2006-201
) | Label: CENTREDISCS Catalog: CMCCD 24917 Format: CD New Music Concerts; Stoll, Peter; Mather, Bruce; Aide, William; Zukiewicz, Adam Piotr; Aitken, Robert; Accordes String Quartet; Pritchard, Barbara; Higham, PeterThe latest recording project by prolific Canadian composer John Beckwith, is a collection of instrumental works composed between 2006 and 2016. Featuring pianists Bruce Mather, Barbara Pritchard, Adam Zukiewicz, and Willaim Aide; clarinetist Peter Stoll; flutist Robert Aitken; guitarist Peter Bhigham; the Accordes String Quartet, and New Music Concerts Ensemble. John Beckwith was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He studied piano with Alberto Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music in 1945, and received a Mus.B. in 1947 and a Mus.M. in 1961 from the University of Toronto. From 1950 to 1951 he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He has written more than 130 compositions covering stage, orchestra, chamber, solo, and choral genres. In 1987 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.  Price: $25.98 |