Heather Hindman

Audio Samples (List of Works below)

List of Works
 

Chamber Music:

Swuite Nation (2017) (fl., bs.cl., vln, vc)

• Premiered by the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble in France, Conducted by Jean Phillipe Wurtz

Macula (2009) for 10 instruments (fl, cl, pno, 2 percussion, 2 vln, vla, vc, db)

• Composed as part of the Master of Music Thesis at McGill University

Specks (2007) for 10 instruments, (fl, cl, pno, 2 percussion, 2 vln, vla, vc, db)

• Premiered by the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, Conducted by Denys Bouliane

3 Etudes (2004) for 2 Percussion and 2 Pianos

• Premiered by the Hammerhead Consort; awarded second place in the Socan Young Composers Competition

Malepulsoable for brass quartet and percussion, 2003

• Premiered by the brass faculty at the University of Alberta

Inertia for String Quartet, 2003

• Premiered by the string faculty at the University of Alberta

Glimpes of a Lego Receptacle for Woodwind Quintet, 2002

• Premiered by the wind faculty at the University of Alberta

 

Keyboard and Solo Works:

2 and a Half Miniatures for solo piano, 2006

• Premiered by Xenia Pestova

Flux for solo alto saxophone, 2005

• Premiered by Pu Yuan-Ku, Taipei, Taiwan

Independent Turmoil for solo double bass, 2003

• Premiered by Matt Stepney

Pleiades for Solo Piano, 2002

• Premiered by Roger Admiral

 

Electronic Music/Mixed works:
 

All Together Now, 2 instruments and audio loops (fl, ten. sx.), Skirts  Fire festival, March 2017

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Scrap, for 7 instruments (fl, cl, tn.sx., vln, vc, pno, perc) and electronics, 2016
*Premiered June 2016, Edmonton, AB, commissioned by the Violet Collective

(RRR) for piano and live electronics, 2014        
 *Premiered March 2015, commissioned by Xenia Pestova

 

The Long and the Short of It (2008) for cello, live electronics and 2 Digital Musical Instruments

• Premiered by the Digital Orchestra (Xenia Pestova, Erika Donald and Fernando Rocha) during the Musimars New Music Festival, Montreal

Bovine Etudes (2006) for 2 digital musical instruments

• In collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology

Flow (2005) for stereo-channel electroacoustic systemAltovis (2005) for voice and live-electronics

• Performed during Soundscope, Edmonton Nextfest, 2005

State of the Union (2004) for stereo-channel electroacoustic system

• Presented during the EuCue electroacoustic series, Montreal 2005

Interdisciplinary Works/Projects

?Stable for mouthpiece-less saxophone and dancer, 2005

• Premiered by Alfredo Mendoza and Miriam Esquitin, Expanse Festival

Improvisations, piano, electronics and 3 dancers (in collaboration with Milezero Dance lab), 2005
 

Orchestral
Almost Exuberant, 1995

• premiered by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, young composers project 

 

 

Scrap, 7 Instruments + Electronics
Commissioned by the Violet Collective/New Music Edmonton  

 

 

All Together Now, Tenor Sax, Flute + DJ Loops
Premiered by Allison Balcetis and Chenoa Anderson, Skirts-a-Fire Festival, Edmonton, AB