Christos Hatzis CURRICULUM VITAE
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Christos Hatzis CURRICULUM VITAE Faculty of Music University of Toronto Edward Johnson Building 80 Queen’s Park Crescent Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 Canada TEL: +416-978-5774 FAX: +416-978-5771 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.hatzis.com I. EDUCATION 1982 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO Ph.D. Studied composition with Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller and Wlodzimierz Kotonski. 1977 EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, ROCHESTER, N.Y. Master of Music. Studied composition with Samuel Adler and Russell Peck. 1976 EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bachelor of Music. Studied composition with Joseph Schwantner and Warren Benson. 1974 HELLENIC CONSERVATORY, VOLOS, GREECE Diploma in Orchestration 1973 HELLENIC CONSERVATORY Diploma in Theory/Education ACCADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 1995 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto 1998 - Received Tenure Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. 2002 – Professor , Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. MEMBERSHIPS Music For a Change (President, founding member, 1998 - 2002) Canadian League of Composers (member) Canadian Music Centre (associate member) Electronic Music Foundation (Charter Subscriber) SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers of Canada) (member) Toronto Musicians Association (A. F. of M.) (member) Union of Greek Composers (member) II. AWARDS and NOMINATIONS Juno Award Nomination Classical composition of the Year, 2004 _for Everlasting Light National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada and Heritage Canada, 2003 Juno Award Nomination Classical composition of the Year, 2003 _for Orbiting Garden New Pioneer Award, 2002 Sponsored by Skills for Change and Heritage Canada Prix Bohemia , Special Prize _ for Footprints in New Snow Radio Music Category, 1998 The Jean A. Chalmers _ for Nunavut National Music Award , 1998 The (Governor-General) _ for Erotikos Logos Jules Léger Prize , 1996 Prix Italia , Special Prize _ for Footprints in New Snow Radio Music Category, 1996 The Jean A. Chalmers Award for _ for Burial Ground Composition. Finalist, 1996 Orchestral Competition of _for Beyond the Pillars of Hercules the City of Athens. Third Prize, 1991. III. COMMISSIONS AND GRANTS By the Canada Council for the Arts, 2004 _ Telluric Dances By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004 _ Telluric Dances Travel Grant _ premiere of The Canada Council for the Arts, 2004. Sepulcher of Life Vancouver, BC / Edmonton, AB Travel Grant to Greece and Egypt Department of Foreign Affairs (Gryphon Trio), 2003 By the Canada Council for the Arts, 2003 _ Sepulcher of Life By the Laidlaw Foundation, 2003 _ Four Rituals By the Toronto Children’s Choir _ LIGHT (Arctic Dreams 2) With a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 2003 By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004 _ Winter Solstice For Jamie Sommerville and the CBC Radio Orchestra, 2002 By Pilobolus Dance Theatre, 2002 _ My Brother’s Keeper By the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic _ Light from the Cross Church of America, 2002 By Patricia Rosario and the English Chamber Choir _ The Troparion of Cassiani with a grant from the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, 2002. Grants for Sound Recording (to SLSQ) _ CD recording of Hatzis’ Canada Council for the Arts, 2002. String Quartets Travel Grant _ CD recording of The Canada Council for the Arts, 2001. Confessional Vancouver, BC Production grant for UK premiere (to ECC) _ Everlasting Light The Michael Marks Foundation, 2001 By Rivka Golani and Beverley Johnston _ Pyrrichean Dances with a grant from the Laidlaw Foundation, 2001. By Rivka Golani and Beverley Johnston _ Pyrrichean Dances with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 2000. By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation _ Pyrrichean Dances for Rivka Golani and Beverley Johnston, 2000. Travel Grant _ London (UK) premiere of The Canada Council for the Arts, 2000. Everlasting Light Travel Grant _ premiere of Zeitgeist The Canada Council for the Arts, 1999. Athens, Greece By the Gryphon Trio with a grant from _ Constantinople the Laidlaw Foundation, 1999. By Music Canada 2000 _ Constantinople for the Gryphon Trio and Jean Stillwel , 1998. By Music Canada 2000 _ Everlasting Light for the Elmer Iseler Singers , 1998. Grants to Composers Program _ De Angelis Toronto Arts Council, 1998. by the Toronto Chamber Choir with a grant _ De Angelis from the Ontario Arts Council, 1998. Travel Grant _ Sound Symposium The Canada Council for the Arts, 1998. St. John’s, NF By the Elmer Iseler Singers with a grant _ Everlasting Light from the Canada Council, 1998. Grants for Sound Recording _ Footprints in New Snow The Canada Council for the Arts, 1997. (compact disc) Travel Grant _ Heirmos The Canada Council for the Arts, 1997. European premiere (U.K.) By the Scotia Festival of Music _ Farewell to Bach for the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra with a grant from the Nova Scotia Arts Council, 1997. Grants to Composers Program _ Confessional Toronto Arts Council, 1997. By the St. Lawrence Quartet with a grant _ String Quartet No. 2 from the Ontario Arts Council, 1997. (The Gathering) By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation _ Viderune Omnes for the Millennium Project of the European Broadcasting Union, 1997. By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation _ Farewell to Bach for the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, 1997. SOCAN Composer-in-residence program _ Kyrie with the Bach Elgar Choir , 1997. By the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation _ Confessional for Shauna Rolston and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, 1996. By the Bach Elgar Choir with a grant _ Kyrie from the Laidlaw Foundation, 1996. Grants to Composers Program _ Feritility Rites Toronto Arts Council, 1996. By the Bach Elgar Choir with a grant _ Kyrie the Ontario Arts Council, 1996. By Keith Horner with a grant from _ Footprints in New Snow the Ontario Arts Council, 1995 F.A.C.T.O.R. Independent Artists _ Erotikos Logos (CD) Recording Loan, 1995. Recording Program for Classical Music _ Erotikos Logos (CD) Grant, Ontario Arts Council, 1995. Special Music Projects Grant _ Footprints in New Snow Ontario Arts Council, 1994. By Jean-Guy Boisvert _ Melisma with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 1994. By Soundstreams Canada _ Heirmos with a grant from the Canada Council, 1994. By the Smith Quartet _ Nunavut with a grant from the London Arts Board (UK), 1994. By Anne-Marie Donovan _ Tetragrammaton with a grant from Ontario Arts Council, 1994. By the Canadian Broadcasting _ Footprints in New Snow Corporation , 1994. Grants to Composers Program _ Three Songs on Toronto Arts Council, 1993. Poems by Sappho By Soundstreams Canada _ of Threads for Lawrence Cherney and Erica Goodman and Labyrinths with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 1993. By the Smith Quartet _ Nunavut with a grant from the Canada Council, 1993. Grants to Composers Program, _ The Go uldberg Toronto Arts Council, 1992. Variations By Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne _ The Go uldberg with a grant from Variations the Canada Council, 1992. By the Fifth Species _ Burial Ground the Ontario Arts Council, 1992. By the C anadian Broadcasting _ The Idea of Canada Corporation, 1992. By ConAccord Canada for Robert Aitken _ Concerto for Flute with a grant from & Chamber Orchestra the Ontario Arts Council, 1991. By the Canadian Broadcasting _ From the Vanishing Corporation for the viola section Gardens of Eden of the Toronto Symphony, 1991. By The Shobana Jeyasingh _ Byzantium Dance Company with a grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1991. Project Grant, _ Byzantium the Canada Council, 1991. By ConAccord Canada for Joseph Petric _ Orbiting Garden with a grant from (accordion version) the Laidlaw Foundation, 1991. By Robert Black _ The Birth of Venus with a grant from the Canada Council, 1990. Sound Recording Grant. _ Byzantium The Canada Council, 1990. The Compact Disc. By Peter Hannan, Douglas Perry and _ Stylus Joseph Petric with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 1990. Travel Grant. Ministry of External Affairs (Greece), 1990. Travel Grant . T he Canada Council, 1989. By Peter Hannan _ Dithyros Dithyrambos with a grant from the Canada Council, 1989. By the Athens Festival, 1989. _ Prisma By Douglas Perry _ The Mega4 Meta4 with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 1988. By the Canadian Broadcasting _ Pavillons En l’ Air Corporation for Scott Irvine and Beverley Johnston, 1988. By the Music Gallery _ Orbiting Garden for Anthony de Mare with a grant from the Canada Council, 1988. By the Canadian Electronic Ensemble _ Nadir for Peter Hannan and Rivka Golani with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, 1987. By the Patras International _ The Temptation Festival , 1987. of St. Anthony By the Hellenic Radio and _ Embroidered Television Network, 1987. By the City of Heracleion _ Salutations Crete, 1986. By the City of Heracleion, _ Omen Crete, 1985. By Ars Omnia with a grant from _ Beyond the Pillars the Minister of State for Multiculturalism of Hercules (Canada), 1985. COMMISSIONS OF INCIDENTAL MUSIC The Movie Co-Op Mozart Loves Me Soundtrack for feature film, 2003 CBC Television; Man Alive ; theme music for the series; 1992 - 1995. CBC Television; Man Alive ; soundtrack for the 25th Anniversary Special, ‘Progress & Prophecy’; 1992. CBC Radio; Music Around Us ; opening and closing themes; 1991- 1993. CBC Radio; Pacific Encounters; opening and closing themes; 1988. IV. PRINCIPAL COMPOSITIONS Telluric Dances. 2005 For oboe and orchestra (1 flute, 1 piccolo, 1 English horn, 1 clarinet in B-flat, 1 bass clarinet, 1 bassoon, 1 contrabassoon, 3 French horns in F, 2 trumpets in B-flat, 1 tenor trombone, 1 bass trombone, 1 tuba, 3 percussion, 1 harp, strings: 8, 6, 4, 4, 2 or more). Commissioned by Symphony Nova Scotia for Suzanne Lemieux and by Joseph Salvalaggio with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 minutes. Cruel Elegance. 2004 For string quartet.