For 16 unaccompanied voices. Text by Katherena Vermette.

Composed 2021

World premiere performance by Aspirare Vocal Collective, Toronto, June 27, 2023.

ziibiwan (like a river) - Aspirare Vocal Collective

Music by Ian Cusson
Text by Marilyn Dumont

Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, 2023
Kathleen Allan, Music Director

will I, night

Text: E. Pauline Johnson (1885)
Music: Ian Cusson (2014)

Recorded at Chalmers House, Canadian Music Centre in Toronto on January 16, 2015

Jennifer Griffith, soprano
Ian Cusson, piano

A Cry From An Indian Wife

String Quartet

New Orford String Quartet

Dreams (Yume)

Extrait de L'Histoire de l'oie
Musique - Ian Cusson
Texte - Michel Marc Bouchard

Teeka - Victoria Marshall
Piano - Ian Cusson

J'adore les orages

Laurelle Froese, mezzo-soprano
Ian Cusson, piano

Performed August 4, 2016
The Heliconian Hall, Toronto

5. Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear

4. You Held Out The Light

3. The Children Are Laughing

2. Manzini: Escape Artist

1. A Breakfast For Barbarians

Tone poem for large orchestra (based on a poem of Zaccheus Jackson) commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra Canada for the 2017 Edges of Canada Tour. 

Koerner Hall, Toronto
July 25, 2017
Jonathan Darlington, conductor

A Child's Bright Eyes (Koerner Hall, July 25, 2017)

Song-cycle for voice and piano
Text by Joy Kogawa

Krisztina Szabó, voice
Rachael Kerr, piano

Recorded at the Canadian Music Centre, Toronto on November 14, 2019 by John Gray.

5. Offerings (Where There's A Wall)

4. Where There's A Wall (Where There's A Wall)

3. Grief Poem (Where There's A Wall)

2. Bird Song (Where There's A Wall)

1. Invasion (Where There's A Wall)

Ian Cusson is a Canadian composer of art song, opera and orchestral work. Of Métis (Georgian Bay Métis Community) and French Canadian descent, his work explores the Canadian Indigenous experience, including the history of the Métis people, the hybridity of mixed-racial identity, and the intersection of Western and Indigenous cultures. Ian was an inaugural Carrefour composer-in-residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2017-2019) and the former composer-in-residence with the Canadian Opera Company (2019-2021). He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

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