NICK STORRING

647.886.3056 www.nickstorring.ca [email protected]

EDUCATION · Bachelor of Music (Honours Composition) - Wilfrid Laurier University (under Peter Hatch), 2000-05. · Master of Fine Arts (Music Composition) - York University (2006- on hold since 2011 (all but dissertation)

AWARDS/GRANTS/ HONOURS · Cited as one of the Top 10 bands/ artists to watch in 2015, according to publication BlogTO. · The Norman Burgess Memorial Fund, February 2013 (to compose a pedagogically-oriented piece for solo harp at an intermediate level. Lori Gemmell - pedagogical advisor) · My compositions have been featured on listening lists for courses at Wilfrid Laurier University and Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique Montréal. · Ontario Arts Council Classical Music Recording grant to fund an album of my chamber music performed by the Thin Edge New Music Collective and guests, February 2013. · Awarded Creators and Composers grant from the Toronto Arts Council, December 2011 · Canadian Music Centre’s Toronto Emerging Composer Award, 2011. · Special adjudicator’s award—original music (for Salt Water Moon, dir. Robin Bennett) at Western Ontario Drama League Festival, 2011. · Artifacts (I) (2007) awarded 1st place in the 2008 Jeux de Temps/ Times Play national competition for electroacoustic music put on by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. · Igneous (2004) placed in the top ten at the 2005 Jeux de Temps/ Times Play competition. · (Lovesong for) White Invincible (2003-4) placed in the top ten at the 2004 Jeux de Temps/ Times Play competition

COMMISSIONS (CONCERT WORKS) · New solo guitar work (2016) commissioned by Chilean new music guitarist Cristián Alvear. Funding in progress. · Mysterious Region (Melody of Thought) (2015) commissioned through the University of Ottawa Faculty of Education's Making Music Project which puts composers in classrooms to compose with, and for, students. · Ruins commissioned by Musica Reflecta (Toronto) for performance in March 2014. · Spurious Correlations commissioned by Stealth (Richard Burrows/ Kathryn Ladano) for performance in 2015. Funded by the Waterloo Region Arts Council. · New work for solo piano commissioned by Eve Egoyan for performance in 2015. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. · Terminal Burrowing commissioned by Montreal-based Réseaux des Art Mediatiques for the 10th anniversary of their AKOUSMA Festival in October 2013. Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. Premiered October 23, 2013. · hypnic jerk commissioned by Toronto-based ensemble Arraymusic through the Ontario Arts Council. Premiered - February 15, 2013. · A destination commissioned by Toronto-based Thin Edge New Music Collective. May, 2012. · Signature (2011-2014) commissioned by Waterloo-based presenters InterArts Matrix in 2011 through the Canada Council for the Arts, for improvising choir & interactive installation.

WORKSHOPS · Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop (Toronto): invited to participate for 2014 edition. · Quatuor Bozzini (Montréal): invited to participate in 2011 Composers’ Kitchen. · Arraymusic (Toronto): invited to participate in 2010 Young Composers’ Workshop. · Madawaska String Quartet (Toronto): invited to participate in 2009 Young Composers’ Workshop.

CONCERT PRESENTATIONS · string quartet Stance performed by the Cecilia String Quartet at the Canadian Music Centre for the Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop, April 2014. · open score piece Ruins performed by Musica Reflecta in March 2014 at their concert Continuous Events, Clapping Optional. · solo harp piece hinting presented by the Canadian Music Centre on a concert showcasing commissions from their New Music for Young Musicians. Performed by Emma Jackson, November 2013 · untitled solo piece (cello, clavinet, mandola, electronics) presented by Interaccess on a concert with crys cole and Matt Rogalsky to close the gallery's exhibition of Eli Keszler's Cold Pin, November 2013. · electroacoustic work Terminal Burrowing presented at AKOUSMA X Festival in Montréal, October 2013. · ensemble work Aigre Douce presented by the Canadian Music Centre's 13th Street Winery Series. For piano, violin, cello, autoharp, toy pianos, melodica, thumb pianos and percussion. Premiered March 2013. · hypnic jerk, commissioned by Arraymusic performed in concert February 2013. · solo audiovisual piece vanishing points; still life presented by New Adventures in Sound Art. Solo piece with video, live electronics, instrumental performance and multichannel diffusion. Premiered November 2012. · birthmark/ beauty-mark written for percussion duo Octopus (Germaine Liu/ Mark Zurawinski). Premiered in June 2012 · a destination commissioned by Toronto-based Thin Edge New Music Collective. Premiered in May 2012 with additional performances in Waterloo and Ottawa. · A Timid Statement (2004, violin duo) performed by Ilana Waniuk and Suhashini Arulanandam on the Thin Edge New Music Collective's season, and at Soundstreams' Salon 21, Toronto, April 2012. · Senesce (2009, string quartet) performed by the Madawaska Quartet as part of their 2009 Composer’s workshop, May 2009. Selected for their 2012 repertoire, performed in London, Guelph, Bobcaygeon, and twice in Waterloo. · Indices Of Refraction (2005-11) presented at the Sound Travels Festival in Toronto, 2011; subsequently broadcast several times on CBC's the Signal · remember how we used to…? (2004) performed by the Esprit Orchestra at Koerner Hall (Toronto) during the 2011 New Wave Composers’ Festival, in recognition of my receiving the Toronto Emerging Composer Award; Subsequently broadcast several times on CBC's the Signal · stares (2011, string quartet) performed by Quatuor Bozzini in April 2011 at Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montréal · Artifacts (2009, electroacoustic) - Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2010 opening concert. · 8th movement, Artifacts (IV) premiered Sept. 2009 Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago. · 1st movement, Artifacts (I), presented at Harvestworks (New York City, 2014), at Technische Universitat (Berlin), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast), Musicacoustica Festival (Beijing), Soundplay Festival (Toronto), Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (2008), Akousma Festival 5 (Montreal). · Exits (2010, trumpet, piano and percussion) performed by members of Arraymusic, May 2010. · Igneous (2004, electroacoustic) - February 2006 at Concordia University, Montréal ÉUCUE series. · (Lovesong for) White Invincible (2003-4, electroacoustic) – October 2004 at Maison de Culture Notre-Dame de Grâce, Montréal (20th anniversary). · I am casting your shadow (2003, electroacoustic): Open Ears Festival, May 2003. · last floating-away helium balloon (2001-2, electroacoustic), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s New Orchestra 2002-03 series.

PERFORMANCE (cello and/or electronics etc.) Solo: Long Winter Series, Great Hall, Toronto, January 2015; Wavelength Series, October 2014 (Opening for Ben Frost), Obey Convention, Halifax (opening for Tim Hecker), May 2014; the Music Gallery's X-Avant Festival, October 2012; Electric Eclectics Festival 7, August 2012; Opening for (and performing as a guest with) Arthur’s Landing (members of Arthur Russell’s projects – incl. Peter Zummo and Ernie Brooks): the Music Gallery, Toronto – September, 2010; 416 Creative Improvisers’ Festival – Autumn 2009; Why? Festival of Electronic Music, Toronto – Summer 2009; VTO Festival, Toronto, Spring 2009. (solo, then trio with Araz Salek & Germaine Liu); Open Ears Festival (Blue Dot Event), Kitchener – Spring 2009; Nuit Blanche, The Music Gallery & Canadian Music Centre, Toronto– Fall 2007.

Collaborative: Judith & Norman ALIX Art Gallery with performing with Very Nervous System by David Rokeby, December 2014; Soundstreams Salon 21 with Rose Bolton— Gardiner Museum, May 2013; with poet Wayde Compton – University of Waterloo English Department, Feb. 2013; with Gardenia—Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, Ontario – August 2010; with Anne Bourne, Matthew Brubeck, Paul Pulford, Germaine Liu—Cellodramatic at NUMUS series, Kitchener, Ontario November 2008; with Aidan Baker’s Liminoid—X-Avant Festival (at the Music Gallery), Toronto – Fall 2008; with Malcom Goldstein & Ensemble (performing his work)— AIMToronto Interface, Toronto – Winter 2008; with Rhys Chatham (performing his work)— Toronto – February 2007; Other notable collaborations: Araz Salek, Andrew Timar, Lori Freedman, Owen Pallett, John Oswald, Eddie Prevost, Diane Labrosse, Glenn Milchem (Blue Rodeo), Jesse Zubot, Christine Duncan, Damo Suzuki, Toby Driver, Paul Dutton, Sandro Perri, Daniel Johnston.

COMMERCIAL RELEASES · Toronto's Long Winter Series released my track "Now Neither One Of Us Is Breaking" in their 7" singles series for their 2014-15 season. · Thin Edge New Music Collective Plays Nick Storring, an album of my chamber music is currently in production. · Exaptations featuring two pieces, will be released in 2015 by Notice Recordings (Portland, Oregon/ New Orleans, Louisiana-based label). Endless Conjecture released November 2014 by Orange Milk Records (Columbus, Ohio-based label). Gardens my work created with the Toronto Emerging Composer award, released October 2014 by Scissor Tail Editions in Tulsa, Oklahoma. · My chamber group Bespoken's first album 'Plays Nick Storring and Daniel Brandes' released on a subsidiary of Halifax label Divorce, Heavy Fog, in October 2013 · Rife, my debut album (features works Artifacts, Indices of Refraction and Outside Summer Is Bursting At The Seams) released on London, England imprint Entr’acte in September of 2011. Reviewed in various publications nationally and internationally. · Selected to contribute to WFMU fundraising compilation album The Finest Tree I Ever Did See curated by DJ Daniel Blumin. Other contributors include Richard Youngs, Stephen Vitiello, Tom Carter, and Janek Schaefer. February 2012. · Selected to contribute to Spanish label Mute Sound's Autohypnosis series of 1-minute tracks, July 2012. · Work selected for inclusion on the Canadian Electroacoustic Community's Cache compilation series in 2004, 2005 and 2008.

COMPOSITION FOR FILM, THEATRE & INTERMEDIA PRODUCTIONS Feature Film Fall (2014) dir. Terrance Odette Premiered at: Vancouver International Film Festival 2014. Selected subsequent presentations: Theatrical Run at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto; Theatrical run at Princess Cinemas in Waterloo, ON; Theatrical run; Canada-Cannes Industry Screening 2015. The Animal Project (2013) dir. Ingrid Veninger. premiered at: Toronto International Film Festival, 2013 Selected subsequent presentations: Theatrical Run at TIFF Bell Lightbox, 2014

Documentary Highrise: Universe Within (2015) interactive documentary dir. Katerina Cizek (through the National Film Board) (co-composed with Dafydd Hughes). Unveiled: Hot Docs 2015, Toronto. The High Rise Project : Out My Window dir. Katerina Cizek (through NFB) Presentation featuring live music September 2013 at Global Suburbanisms Conference York University —co-composed and performed with Dafydd Hughes Men Talking To Men (2011) dir. Azam Fouk-Aladeh Count Us In (2010) dir. Azam Fouk-Aladeh Theatre Is Here (2010) dir. Azam Fouk-Aladeh Going to The Moon (2009) dir. Isabel Cisterna Downside Up (2008) dir. Azam Fouk-Aladeh

Short Film The Natural State (2014) dir. Mikel Guillen Screenings: Labcab Festival 2014, Toronto; Ratio, Toronto; Placebo Space, Toronto; Vidéothèque Française, Paris, FR, 2015. All That Is Solid (2014) dir. Eva Kolcze (provided raw bits of score/ sound that were edited by Kolcze). Selected screenings: Montreal Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; Images Festival, Toronto; AGO, Depth of Field, Toronto.

Theatre: The MT Space – Director Majdi Bou-Matar Body 13 (with Colin Fisher & Germaine Liu) (2010-2013); The Last 15 Seconds (2008-9); Across the Veil (2008); Exit Strategy/ Pinteresque (2007); Yes Or No (written by Douglas Campbell) (2006); Season of Immigration (2005-6).

Theatre/ Dance Other New trio work (2016, in production) chor. Yvonne Ng; This Is Why We Live (2014-in production) dir. Coleen MacPherson; Magnetic Fields chor. Yvonne Ng, presented May 2014 at the Theatre Centre in Toronto; New piece (yet-untitled) chor. Deepti Gupta (in development for presentation in China, 2015); Salt Water Moon (2010), dir. Robin Bennett (Galt Little Theatre)

Multimedia · Tentacles (2009-10) – music & sound design. An iPhone application with public projection game. (CFC Media Lab/ OCAD/ York University) presented at Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2009; Mobilefest, Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2010; Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, 2010; MediaCity 2010, Bauhaus University, Weimar (Germany); Transmission Global Summit, Victoria, 2011. remount and revision of music 2011 for presentation at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 2011. · Transport (2008) – music composition. Video installation by Isabella Stefanescu & Carlito Ghioni. (CFC Media Lab). Presented at Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2008. · The Notebook Project (2006) – interactive music design/ composition, programming. Interactive model of Isabella Stefanescu’s artist notebook project on a large screen. Presented at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery in May 2006.

Advertisements · Scored book trailers (2010-2015) for best-selling suspense author Linwood Barclay (Bantam/ Random House Books) - Broken Promise, No Safe House, A Tap On The Window, Trust Your Eyes, The Accident, No Time For Goodbye, Too Close To Home, Fear The Worst, Last Resort and Never Look Away · Official festival theatrical trailer forReel Asian Film Festival, 2013. Animation created by the Office of Gilbert Li. · Promotional video for Menno S. Martin Renovations (2011) · Created music for an informational video for Career Services department Wilfrid Laurier University, 2005.

WRITING · Contributor since Spring 2008 for Musicworks Magazine, named Contributing Editor in Spring 2015. Written a number of features for them including cover stories on Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker and Allison Cameron as well as many reviews and profiles. · Commissioned in 2015 to contribute an essay to the liner notes of boxset compiling all of 1960s pioneers Intersystems' work. Reissued on celebrated label Alga Marghen. · Former contributor for Exclaim! Magazine (2008-9, and 2011-12). Contributed many reviews, as well as several shorter articles.

CURATORIAL etc. · Member of the Music Gallery's Artistic Advisory Committee since 2013. Curated a show for their Emergents series in 2014. · One of seven members of collective who opened downtown-Toronto music and arts venue Ratio in July 2014. · Hosted Beirut-based improviser Sharif Sehnaoui in Toronto, curating a program of complementary acts, 2013. · Curated a program for New Adventures in Sound Art in May 2012 featuring Andrew Zukerman and christof migone. · Served on Canada Council for the Arts juries: Composer Commissioning Program — November 2011; Grants to Professional Musicians — May 2013, On jury for Musicworks Magazine's Electronic Music competition in November 2012; Sonic Geography competition in 2013, and on jury for the KM Hunter Music Award in February 2014. · Invited several times to speak at Wilfrid Laurier University's music department to first year students about Life After Laurier (the name of the talk) and possible career paths in music.