The McGill Association of Student Composers presents its first composer forum of 2017! Join us this Thursday at 5pm in room A-510 for a talk by award-winning McGill alum Thierry Tidrow on his recent music.
Thierry Tidrow: Fine Lines and Sweet Spots
"Through the lens of my most recent work, I will present a diverse range of artistic concepts that have been of particular interest and importance to me over the past few years. Vocality in music, intertexuality and reference as a quest for personal identity, timbral exploration as a mediation between pitch and noise: all of these concepts play key roles in my work. The underlying dialectics of voice versus instrument, my music versus the music of others, and pitch versus noise are scrutinised in order to cultivate those extremely rich, fine lines in which 'converging points' are exploited in ways both personal and peculiar."
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Franco-Ontarian composer Thierry Tidrow began his musical training at Ottawa's St-Matthew’s Men and Boys choir and at De La Salle High School in vocal performance. In 2009, he obtained his Bachelor of Music degrees in honours composition and theory at McGill University, where his composition teachers included Brian Cherney and Christoph Neidhöfer. As a Fondation Ricard and Canada Arts Council Fellow, he received his Masters degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2011 under Richard Ayres, followed by an Advanced Studies diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 2013 under Brice Pauset.
Thierry has collaborated with performers and institutions from across Europe and North America, including the Asko-Schönberg Ensemble, Continuum, Ereprijs Orkest, Insomnio, the Talea Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Erik Bosgraaf, Sarah Maria Sun, the Dutch National Opera Academie and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
He has won numerous distinctions, among which a nomination for Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2011, as well as the Canada Arts Council’s prestigious Jules-Léger Prize in 2014.
Thierry lives and works in Cologne.
