Resume

L. Mark Armanini

4484 West 11^th 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