Resume

L. Mark Armanini

4484 West 11th Ave Vancouver BC Canada V6R 2M3
Phone/fax 604 739 8047
Email: armanini@interchange.ubc.ca
www.armanini.ca

Education

1984
  • M.Mus. Composition,
    School of Music University of British Columbia
1980
  • B.Mus. Composition, School of Music University of British Columbia
1976
  • A.R.C.T.         Theory; after studies with Cecilia MacLean
1964-76
  • Private piano studies with Edwina and Stephen Lansberry, and   Eileen Battley

Professional Teaching Experience

1991 – present
  • Composition Instructor, B.Mus. Transfer Program
  • Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC
1995 – 2005
  • Theory and Beginning Piano Instructor, Extensions Program Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC
1985 – present
  • Private Piano/Composition Instructor

Professional Development

2010
  • Producer , BC Chinese Music Ensemble
2009
  • Co-Artistic Director( with Moshe Dendurg) Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra Guest composer at the first Atlas Academy  a two week  intercultural orchestra workshop , Amsterdam Conservatory
2008
  • VICO commission for arrangement of ‘Songs of A Thousand Autumns (Weisgarber)” for Choir and Intercultural Orchestra
2007
  • Canada Council sponsored trip to Wuhan Hubei Province China for study /composition Marquis Yi Bell Ensemble, lecture at Wuhan Conservatory, Hubei Provincial Museum, Nanjing Art University
2007
  • Board of Directors, Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra
2007
  • Co-sponsor of visit  Don Jinming  erhu, (artistic director of the Nanjing Jazz Festival) Zhou Daiya yangqin, at the Vancouver Jazz Festival
2006
  • China Tour  with the Mei Han Art Ensemble  performance at the Nanjing  Jazz Festival, lectures in Hangzhou Normal University, China Conservatory
2005
  • Co-curator Silk and Bamboo Ensemble: Bellingham Festival of Music
2004
  • Coordinator China/Canada Composers Exchange Beijing/Shanghai
2003
  • Guest composer The First China/Canada Exchange
2002
  • Featured composer Victoria Summer Piano School
2001-2005
  • President Vancouver Pro Musica
2000
  • Guest Composer Taipai International Contemporary Music Festival
  • Board of Directors, Vancouver Pro Musica Society Member, Canadian Music Centre
1997
  • Guest Composer: Glacier Orchestra (with Qiu Xia He, pipa)
1996
  • Vancouver Chamber Choir: Interplay reading series – critique of ‘Floating with Flowing Waters’
  • Producer,  CD ‘The Spirit Emerges’ in Zlin, Czech Republic with Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, John Zoltek conductor.
  • Started Chroma Disc recording label.
  • Auditor, Symphonic Workshops for Conductors in Zlin, Czech Republic
  • Co-producer photographic exhibition, ‘A Living Heritage: The Composers Community’, photographs by Laurie Hazell, text by Mark Armanini
  • Board of Directors, Community Arts Council of Vancouver
  • Vice-President of Programs, Community Arts Council of Vancouver
  • President, Vancouver Pro Musica Society

Publications

1986
  • ‘The Blossom’, West Coast Review, New West Coast Composers
1984
  • ‘The Lamb’ (Blake), West Coast Review

Awards

2000
  • Vivan Xia: Finalist Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Concerto Competition
1979, 1980
  • The Jean Coulthard Scholarship for Composers, presented by Jean Coulthard at the Okanagon Festival for Composers

Commissions

2008
  • Canada Council Butterfly and Cocoon for Orchid Ensemble, Hubei Provincial Museum Bell Ensemble and Choir
2007
  • Orchid Ensemble Butterfly and Cocoon Triaspora Dance project
2007
  • NOW/VICO Orchestra : Spirit House :  through  the Canada Council, BC Arts Council
2005
  • Dr. Lee Van Horn, through the Bellingham Festival of Music:
  • A Thousand Butterflies
2003
  • BC Chinese Music Association: The Lions Roar
2002
  • Laudate Singers: A Dream of Bees (text Carolyn Zonailo)
2002
  • Sacred Music Festival: Incense and Flowers (Canada Council Music Award Commission)
2001
  • Capliano College Foundation: Circular Coast (text Anne Marriott)
  • Vancouver Sacred Music Festival: Sacred Flowers
2000
  • BC Chamber Orchestra: Rain in the Forest – Concerto for Yangqin and Orchestra, (BC Millennium Commission,)
  • Laudate Singers: Hodie Christus Natus Est
2000
  • Kate Hammitt Vaughn: Two Songs for Jazz Sextet
  • Qiu Xia He: Pipa Solo (Canada Council Music Award Commission)
2000
  • Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble: Lotus and Moon (Canada Council Music Award Commission)
2000
  • Coastal Jazz and Blues Society: Fingertips to Freedom:
    co-written with Paul Plimley (Millennium Canada Council Award)
  • Orchid Ensemble: Heartland
  • Community Arts Council of Vancouver: for Pam Chambers Music
1997
  • Capilano College Singers: When Heard in Harmonies: (text L.Robinson)
  • Chi Khac Ho and Ngo Bich Hoang: Dance of Many Colours, for two dan-dan-bau and chamber orchestra
1994
  • Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble: Floating on the Sea of Serenity
  • Capilano College Singers: Floating with Flowing Waters
1993
  • Knowledge Network: Art’s Edge (opening and closing theme)
  • Vancouver Pro Musica: inwards…ever inwards, for Standing Wave
1992
  • Community Arts Council of Vancouver, through the Secretary of States for Multiculturalism: The Music of Stones (text T. Carolan)
1991
  • Jo and Leo vanderVeen:  Jessica and Daniel…a portrait
  • Micheal Strutt: Coastal Lines
1985
  • Vancouver Youth Symphony: Sinfonietta for Orchestra

Recordings

2008
  • Rain in the Forest(Centredisc CD)
  • Incense and Flowers, Rain in the Forest, Dance of Many Colours
  • Heidi Krutzen, Vivian Xia, Khac Chi, Huang Ng Bich , Latvian National     Symphony Orchestra, John Zoltek , conductor
2006
  • The Moon , Botanical Garden(texts C. Zonailo) Kate Hammett-Vaughn, Conspirisy
2006
  • Magical Song and Dance: Heidi Krutzen, harp (from Canada New Works for Flute and Harp, Skylark CD)
2005
  • Goldfish: Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble (from New Frontiers CD)
2005
  • Blues for Pipa, …of Wind and Water: Qiu Xia He, pipa (from Autumn Cloud CD)
2003
  • Green and Gold CD
    Green and Gold Black and White Red/Scented Flowers/Three Friends/Magical Song and Dance/From the Pure Land: Heidi Krutzen harp/Vivian Xia yangqin/Qiu Xia He pipa/David Harding viola/ Ji Rong Huang erhu
  • Whispering Winds: Vivian Xia, yangqin (from Dancing under the Moon CD)
  • When Heard in Harmonies: Landate Singers (text C. Robinson)
    (from Songs of Heaven and Earth CD)
2001
  • Nomads Rustic Song and Song of the Mountain Stream (arr. Armanini)
  • Silk Road Music (from Village Tales CD)
1999
  • Heartland: Orchid Ensemble (from Heartland CD)
1996
  • The Spirit Emerges CD
  • Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, John Zoltek, conductor
  • …of Wind and Water, Qiu Xia He, pipa
  • Violin Concerto, Toni Stanick, violin
  • Nocturne for Clarinet and Strings, Ales Pavlorek, clarinet
  • Poems, Willy Grenzberg, baritone
  • Petr Reznicek, producer
    Chroma Disc release, distributed through the Canadian Music Centre

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