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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.

Patrick Arteaga is a composer based out of Toronto, Canada.

'Hard Time Loving You', out May 4th 2018.

CONTACT: floatfall@gmail.com
PRESS: jolien.nickmans@pias.com

Vincent Ranallo brings vocal passion and precision to a vast repertoire ranging from German Lieder (Schubert, Mahler, Webern…) to the modern avant-garde (Xenakis, Tremblay, Sciarrino…).
Lauded by critics for his vocal intelligence and onstage presence, Mr. Ranallo performs more and more with various ensembles such as the McGill Chamber Orchestra, I Musici, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, the SMCQ, KORÈ ensemble, Chants Libres and Les Voix Humaines. He takes part in festivals such as Athelas New Music Festival (Copenhagen), New music concerts (Toronto), Orford Arts Center, Codes d’Accès, Métropolis bleu, Musimars and Montréal Baroque.On the occasion of the North American première of Don Quichotte chez la duchesse by Boismortier, Mr. Ranallo played Sancho Panca with La Nouvèle Sinfonie under the direction of Hervé Niquet. This production was awarded an OPUS prize by the Conseil québécois de la musique.
Numerous Québec and European composers have been inspired by his voice, his creative personality and his evolving musicianship. He has participated in numerous Montréal opera and chamber music creations and premieres.His interpretation of Tremblay’s À quelle heure commence le temps in a recent Canadian and European tour with the Aventa ensemble has won him public and critical acclaim.
A graduate from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec, where he studied with Marie Daveluy and Gilles Tremblay, this baritone was awarded a Ph.D in voice performance from the Université de Montréal, having studied under the supervision of Rosemarie Landry and Mark Pedrotti. Mr. Ranallo’s thesis focused on aural creativity in the works of composer Gilles Tremblay. He wrote articles on the subject published in CIRCUIT and the Cahiers de la SQRM.
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Alex Eddington is a composer of experimental and not-as-experimental music for concert stage, electronic media, theatre and dance.  

He is also a writer, theatre performer, music/drama teacher and professional opera surtitlist.

Find out more at www.AlexEddington.com
 
Alex's compositions have been performed by professional ensembles like the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Continuum Contemporary Music, and student musicians at organizations like the Suzuki String School of Guelph.

Alex has performed his own original theatre across Canada on the Fringe Festival circuit, and created music/sound for more than 20 theatre and dance productions across the country.

Alex’s music has been recorded by the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra and
released worldwide on their album Canadian Panorama.
His piece "Bubblegum Delicious" was released on the Cambria label in November 2017.

Recent/upcoming commissions: Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Chronos Vocal Ensemble, Toronto Brass Quintet, Jumblies Theatre, Toronto Consort.

Created music for the play "Dark Heart" (Thought For Food Productions) in January 2018.

Painter, musician,creative director,photographer, graphic designer.
Born in Mondolfo in 1975. Graduated Maestro d’ Arte at the Art Institute of Fano ( Italy ), he started very soon to work in the ateliers of contemporary artists.
Beside the art he also accomplished music studies, at the Conservatorio “ G. Rossini “ in Pesaro and then he specialized at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
From the age of thirteen he was  organist in Rimini , Fano and San Benedetto del Tronto at the town’s Cathedrals. He also became art director of many  prestigious Music Festivals in Italy. He participated to many  painting exhibitions and art installations in Italy and abroad.
In 2001 he created LAVS, the Sacred Vestments Atelier. The Atelier realizes  Sacred Vestments, and all the materials for the catholic cult liturgy. The Atelier shortly became a landmark in the new Sacred Vestments of the two last Popes: Benedetto XVI and Francesco.
Many works have been made for nationals and internationals events and widely spread all over.
His versatile activity is often a subject for the press.
Because of his industriousness, Filippo receives requests from museums that want to welcome his works; others agencies ask art advices.
In 2013 LAVS participated to the “ San Girolamo “ exhibit of the french painter Georges de La Tour, in Vic sur Seille. The Atelier, according to  The Louvre Museum, exactly reproduced two of the vestments presented in the painting.
 Filippo is co-founder and art director of UNUM parfums, ” maison “ that produces parfums “ d’excellence “. The fragrances are featured by  rigorous researches that have their origins in Filippo’s history, travels, art .
The trademark for Filippo’s  whole production is : VARIA VERITAS.

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