Our Board and wide array of Artistic Partners all take great pride in the work that we do at CASP.
Through a combination of commission sponsors, donor support and artistic good will, we have Commissioned several new works to date and have only just begun. Please have a look below for a history of our announced commissions to-date.
- 2012 Brian Harman — Sewing the Earthworm (text by David Brock)
Premiered by soprano Carla Huhtanen and pianist Steven Philcox - 2013 Norbert Palej — Cloud Light (text by Jan Zwicky)
Premiered by tenor Lawrence Wiliford and pianist Steven Philcox
*Roger D. Moore - 2013 Brian Current — Extreme Positions and Birefringence (text by bpNichol and Christian Bök)
Premiered by soprano Simone Osborne and pianist Anne Larlee for Jeunesses Musicale Canada - 2014 James Rolfe — Moths (text by André Alexis)
Premiered by baritone Brett Polegato and pianist Steven Philcox
*Ontario Arts Council & Canada Council for the Arts
- 2015 Marjan Mozetich — Enchantments of Gwendolyn (text: Gwendolyn McEwen)
Premiered by mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy and pianist Adam Sherkin
*Cynthia Tape - 2015 Peter Tiefenbach — The Long Walk Home (text by James Ostime)
Premiere by baritone Geoffrey Sirett and pianist Peter Tiefenbach
*Chung-Wai Chow & John Wright - 2015 Eric Ross — The Living Spectacle (text by Charles Baudelaire – Roy Campbell, translation )
Premiere by soprano Ambur Braid and pianist Steven Philcox
*Ambur Braid - 2017 Ana Sokolovic — TBA,
Premiere by COC Ensemble Studio (Quartet)
*Canada Council for the Arts*denotes commission sponsor