JUST ANNOUNCED: OUR APRIL READING SESSION WINNING COMPOSERS
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that Richard Mascall, Dustin Peters, Jonathan Goulet, Alice Hong and Steven Webb have been chosen to participate in our April reading session. Participants will receive feedback from Music Director Peter Oundjian, and will have an opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue with members of the orchestra, the librarian, the Composer Adviser, and the RBC Affiliate Composer.
Congratulations to all five! Find out more about each below:
Richard Mascall
Award winning Canadian composer, Richard Mascall grew up in Toronto, Canada but originally hails from England. His classical music training began at North Toronto Collegiate Institute, as well as at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Richard went on to study musical composition at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music and Wilfred Laurier University. Mr. Mascall’s music first gained public attention in 1992 when his virtuosic work for solo violin, Labyrinth, was performed by celebrated Canadian violinist, Andrew Dawes at the CBC Young Composers Competition. Labyrinth was chosen by the CBC to represent Canada at the 1993 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, France. Since then his music has been widely performed across Canada by many of the leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists. With recent performances of his work in Estonia, England, Finland and South Korea his music is beginning to be heard around the globe. Mr. Mascall moved to a small rural Ontario town in 2005 where he works as a composer, arranger, conductor and music educator. From 2006-2010 he served as the Composer-in-Residence for the Georgian Bay Symphony, and during that time founded the Georgian Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra, an ensemble he directed for twelve seasons.
Dora Mavor Moore Award-winner Dustin Peters is a Toronto-based composer whose works range from concert and chamber music to film scores and pieces for voice & dance. Born in British Columbia, Peters began music studies on piano from the age of 5 and studied double-bass at the Mount Royal College Conservatory and University of Ottawa before focusing on composition in 2001. Peters has had the distinct pleasure of working with some of Canada’s finest artists such as Kent Monkman (multidisciplinary artist), James Kudelka and Bill Coleman (choreographers), Sky Gilbert (playwright), Kevin Mallon (Conductor/Violinist) and Marion Newman (Mezzo-Soprano). Peters' concert works have been performed across Canada, USA and in Great Britain, including chamber music at Harvard University and the opening work for the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards Ceremony. Dustin’s film scores have been heard in such international festivals as the Berlin International Film Festival, ImagiNATIVE Media Arts Festival (Toronto), the Sao Paolo International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
An international award winner both as a violinist and composer, Alice has had compositions performed in Hungary, Netherlands, China, Czech Republic, Canada, the United States, and in film-scores for Studio3D productions. Her works are published by Edition MatchingArts and have won multiple awards from the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards and first prizes at the International Keuris Competition, Carl E. Baldassarre Composer-Virtuosi Competition, NorCal Viola Society Commission Contest, Pikes Peak Composition Competition, and third prize along with the audience prize for the 2018 Lands End Ensemble Composition Competition. Her pieces have been performed and read by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig Symphony Orchestra, CIM Symphony Orchestra, Amersfoort Youth Orchestra, and members of the New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Canadian Opera Company, Rolston String Quartet and Cypress String Quartet, among others. As a violinist, Alice has been a featured performer and composer in Atlanta Symphony’s Conversation of Note series with Robert Spano and toured with Heifetz Institute of Music’s Heifetz on Tour. She has performed her own compositions at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Spoleto Festival USA, and Heifetz on Tour, as well as with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony as a substitute violinist. She has also performed alongside esteemed musicians such as James Ehnes, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin, Jonathan Crow, and Barry Shiffman, among others. Her performances have been featured on CBC radio, WABE 90.1 Atlanta and WSMR 89.9 Tampa. Alice holds degrees from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as a Dorothy R. Starling Foundation Scholar and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and she is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Toronto as a Harold Carter Foundation fellow studying privately with Jonathan Crow.
Originally from South Africa, Steven Webb (b.1989) is a Toronto based performer, composer, and audio engineer, who recently completed his Masters Degree in Composition at the University of Toronto under the direction of Dr. Christos Hatzis.
As a performer, Steven has appeared with the University of Manitoba Singers, Prairie Voices, Canzona, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and has been a featured performer in the Winnipeg New Music Festival, Winnipeg Studio Theatre, and the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
As a composer, Steven has written music for a wide variety of documentaries, films, and commercials, as well as for contemporary dance and classical performance. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by: The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, The University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The University of Guelph Symphonic Choir, Exultate Chamber Singers, Prairie Voices Choir, among many others.
As a film composer, Steven has worked on a variety of projects including ‘Chopin’s Heart’ for The National Screen Institute presented at the Cannes Film Festival in France, ‘Period Piece’, winner of the best Canadian Short Film at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and ‘Scheduled Violence’ for MTS On Demand. As a producer and audio engineer, Steven has worked with Winnipeg bands including: The Lytics, Vikings, and Moses Mayes, and has done audio work for Harper Collins, Strata Studios and Astron 6 Video International. He currently works as a full time composer, audio engineer and collaborative pianist. Steven is a member of the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers, (SOCAN), as well as the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.
Congrats to all five composers!
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