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Described as “one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music” (Dallas Observer), Kory Reeder’s music is often meditative and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity, place, and immediacy, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory. His music has been performed around the world and recognized and awarded internationally and he frequently collaborates with theater, dance, and opera programs. His music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, as well as Petrichor Records, Sawyer Editions, Sawyer Spaces, Impulsive Habitat, Another Timbre, kuyin, and Full Spectrum Records. Please visit www.koryreeder.com for more.

Accordion player and sound artist born in 1977

Branko Džinović is an accordion artist focused on contemporary repertoire. He holds a Master’s degree from the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music in Linz, Austria, and is currently pursuing a DMA degree at the University of Toronto. He has participated in numerous accordion competitions; records for Radio Belgrade, Radio Austria 1, and the BBC; and tours internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. An avid proponent of avant-garde music, he has shared the stage with improvisers such as Pavel Fajt, Mia Zabelka, and many more. Mr. Džinović also composes in various genres, including soundtracks for two award-winning short films.

Coworking curieux ! 

Once upon a time…

Studios Singuliers est né de la volonté de 3 designers freelances Camille, Basil et Sébastien, qui, un beau jour, en ont eu marre de travailler sur leur canapé en pyjama, avec en fond sonore la machine à laver en cycle essorage.

Après quelques mois de recherche, ils ont décidé de changer leur vie, et, sans le savoir encore, celle de pas mal d’autres futurs coworkers.

Les Studios Singuliers ont ouvert en septembre 2012, dans l’hôtel d’entreprises Paris Nord Express, un endroit sympathique, tout neuf et bourré de start-up innovantes mais, avouons-le, au milieu de nowhere. Les coworkers qui n’étaient pas effrayés par les grues de chantier, y trouvaient un cadre de travail calme et agréable mais surtout et c’est ce qui fait la force des studios aujourd’hui, partageaient leur singularité pour créer leur complémentarité.
Metro Marcadet-Poissonniers Ligne 4-12
46, rue René Clair • 75018 Paris 
Contact@studios-singuliers.fr
01-44-92-47-02

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This page is predominantly live recordings - please check out studio recordings here:
https://bekahsimms.bandcamp.com/
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Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow after nine years living and working in Toronto. Her varied musical output has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments.

Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe. She has worked with some of the top interpreters of contemporary music internationally, including Crash Ensemble - with whom she is currently an artist-in-residence - Riot Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Bekah has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competitive selections, nominations, and prizes, including the 2019 Barlow Prize and the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. The resulting work from the Barlow Prize, "metamold," was nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award. Works from her debut album “impurity chains” were nominated in both 2019 and 2020 for the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Her music has thrice been included in the Canadian Section's official submission to World Music Days (2016, 2019, & 2021), and in 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30.

Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.  Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.

Award-winning composer, producer, performer, and educator of ElectroAcoustic music, Vahid Jahandari is a dynamic transdisciplinary musician, specializing in global music studies. Award-winning composer of acoustic and electronic music, Jahandari's works have been performed and recorded in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has received awards, including first prizes at 2Agosto and Pejman competitions for His orchestral and chamber music, and commissions include the Grammy nominee ensemble, PubliQuartet.

Jahandari is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser who works across various genres and mediums. His music has been selected and performed at numerous festivals, including ISCM World Music Days in Estonia, the World Saxophone Congress in Croatia, SXSW, SEAMUS, SPLICE, and many more.

Dr. Patrick Boyle is a fearless sonic explorer driven by discovery. Curiosity is his compass. His frontiers are in performance (trumpet and guitar), improvisation, composition and education. Patrick is Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Victoria 

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Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, he appears on over 50 commercial releases and 3 acclaimed solo albums. CBC Radio has called him a “trumpet personality” and “one of Canada’s top jazz musicians.” He has cultivated the rare ability to synthesize a range of influence – including jazz, rock, trad, Balkan, and South Indian music – which all come together into a rhythmically compelling musical voice. In 2009, Patrick performed at Carnegie Hall with tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain. 
 
A provocative and prolific composer, Patrick writes for theatre, film and the concert stage. Among his many commissions is the score for the theatrical adaptation of the Wayne Johnston novel Colony of Unrequited Dreams which premiered at the National Arts Centre in January 2017. Patrick’s music is central to two films for the National Film Board: 54 Hours (2014) and Song for Cuba (2014). The CBC commissioned Patrick to compose and record Well Enough Alone (2010), a multi-movement suite acknowledging the 60th anniversary of Newfoundland's confederation with Canada. 

Career highlights include performances every major jazz festival across Canada, the Newport Folk Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Mariposa Folk Festival, Sound Symposium, SXSW, Folk Alliance International, and an Australian tour with guitarist/composer Duane Andrews. Patrick concerts and compositions have been performed on numerous CBC radio broadcasts, including The Signal, Canada Live, The Performance Hour, Deep Roots, and a feature episode of Sessions in the Old Town for CBC-TV with host Tom Power. His latest release, After Forgetting (2017), is a new vinyl release with Bill Brennan (piano), Mike Downes (bass), and Mike Billard (drums) and produced by Glen Tilley. Previous solo albums include Rock Music with Curtis Andrews (2010); Still No Word (2008 ECMA Nominee); Hold Out (2005 ECMA Nominee).

Patrick balances a life in performance with dedicated scholarship and active community engagement. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts (2012) from the University of Toronto, a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology (2002) from York University and a Bachelors Degree in Performance from Memorial University (2000). His innovative research investigates how improvisation, particularly collective improvisation in organizations, can help negotiate situations of tension and anxiety. Patrick has been awarded grants to study, record, and tour from the NL Arts Council, FACTOR, and Canada Council including work at the Banff Jazz Workshop and Hrvatska Matica Iseljenika (Croatian Folkloric Academy of Music) in Brac, Croatia. Patrick writes for Canadian Musician magazine. He is also a sought after clinician/adjudicator throughout North America.

Current projects include intensive work performing live music for silent film under the banner of Active-Vision; a intimate trio with pianist George McFetridge and bassist James Young; Deep in the Groove with organist Dr. Tony Genge; Carnatic explorations with Curtis Andrews; a book and online project documenting the history of jazz music in Newfoundland; an album of trad music for trumpet; and ever-evolving collaborations with Neil Conway, The Discounts, and Mark Bragg. 

An in-demand sideman, his versatility is integral to several collaborations. Select performance and recording credits include Great Big Sea, Mickey Dolenz, Mike Murley, Hey! Rosetta, Fred Penner, and many more. Twice, MusicNL recognized Patrick as Side Musician of the Year. Patrick led the rap and roll group Trimmed Naval Beef and in his heart, he still does.

As a Mexican and Canadian composer, winner of the Beethoven's Legacy composition competition of the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in 2020, she has a very varied catalog, ranging from orchestral repertoire to solo music. The duality between darkness and light is very present in her work as it is in ancient Mexican Philosophy. Also, the theme of legacy, ritual, mysticism and the force of nature are essential in her music. Furthermore, she likes to create rich colored atmospheres using noisy sonorities or very lyrical melodies. García Islas finds interesting the use of both to create a balance between strength and lyricism.

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