John Oliver

An active amount over the Vancouver songs scene, John Oliver cumulates credits being a author of chamber, orchestral, and electroacoustic functions, to which we should add his guitar playing and his duties as co-founder from the record label/production company/webzine Earsay Productions. He released his initial studio record in 1998 and it is a member from the executing duo Structural Damage. Oliver examined structure with John Adams and electric guitar with George Sakellariou on the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Conservatory of Music, before shifting to Montreal where he examined at McGill School for a decade, from 1983 to 1993, generally with John Rea and Bruce Mather. Upon his entrance he co-founded G.E.M.S., the Band of the Electronic Music Studio room with Claude Schryer and Alcides Lanza. He proved helpful actively using the group until 1987, beginning a profession in electroacoustics that is constantly on the parallel his instrumental functions. He found international interest in 1988-1989 when five of his compositions gained him six awards. “Un Reposo del Fuego” was honored both “Town of Varèse Award” with the Luigi Russolo Competition in Italy as well as the Canada Council’s Grand Award on the CBC’s 8th Country wide Competition for Youthful Composers. The electroacoustic piece was included on Sergio Barroso’s Compact disc SONGS for Digital Key pad in 1989. After his research in Montreal, Oliver shifted to Vancouver where he became an often-commissioned composer. The Canadian Opera Business commissioned his first opera “Guacamayo’s Aged Music and Dance” (premiered in 1991). He was composer-in-residence in the Vancouver Opera from 1992 to 1996, where time he began focus on his second opera “Alternative Visions,” to become premiered in 2003. In 1997 he co-founded Earsay Productions with pianist Andrew Czink and developer Tanya Petreman and a yr later on released a Compact disc of his electroacoustic items, Icicle Blue Avalanche. In the past due ‘90s he also became more vigorous like a guitarist and offers used François Houle, Paul Dolden, Rainer Bürck, and Sergio Barroso. Structural Harm, his duo with Czink, toured Canada in nov 2002 with Ron Samworth, Yasuhiro Otani and Kazuyoshi Uchihashi.