I just use this Soundcloud page for private links and the occasional non-choral recording. If you're looking for my choral works instead, they can be found on my YouTube channel and my website (links below).

Commended by the Vancouver Sun for his "sophisticated work of such immediate, glittery appeal" and called "a rising star in the constellation of Canadian composers" by Oregon Arts Watch, Nicholas Ryan Kelly is a classically-trained composer who draws inspiration from science fiction and fantasy. He can be found and contacted at www.nicholasryankelly.com

A native of St. John’s, NL, conductor, composer and soprano Kathleen Allan is rapidly becoming internationally respected for her compelling performances and engaging compositions. She is the Director of Choral Studies and Associate Conductor of Orchestras at the Vancouver Academy of Music and was recently appointed Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional baroque choral ensemble. In 2015, she made her Asian debut conducting Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the 2016 Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Prize in Choral Conducting which accompanies her appointment as Conducting Apprentice of the National Youth Choir of Canada. She is the assistant conductor of the Vancouver Bach Choir, and has held conducting positions with St. Michael’s Choir School, the Yale Glee Club, the Vancouver Bach Children’s Chorus, and in 2013, was the Conducting Fellow of the Canadian Chamber Choir. She is the founding co-artistic director of Arkora, a chamber music collective dedicated to interdisciplinary performance. 

Her compositions have been commissioned, performed and recorded by ensembles throughout North America, Europe, and in Argentina where her work was featured at the World Symposium on Choral Music in 2011. Her “In Paradisum” is the closing track on the Canadian Chamber Choir’s JUNO-nominated recording, “Sacred Reflections of Canada.”
 
Also in high demand as a soprano soloist and professional choral singer, she has appeared as a soloist with the National Broadcast Orchestra of Canada and Berkshire Choral Festival Choir, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Bach Choir. In addition to freelancing regularly in Canada and the United States, she is a member of the Vancouver Chamber Choir and has sung with the Vienna-based Arnold Schoenberg Chor under conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Skylark Vocal Ensemble in Atlanta, and the Yale Schola Cantorum. A passionate interpreter of new music, she has premiered over two dozen works for the voice. She holds a degree in composition from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in conducting from Yale University.

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.

Dr. Matthew Emery is a Canadian composer who “writes with an honesty which enchants” (Vancouver Sun), and whose music is “profoundly beautiful and moving” (CBC Music).  His music has been performed in twenty-seven countries, and recent performance venues include the Great Wall of China, the White House and the Musikverein. Matthew has received over forty commissions and his music has been performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, National Youth Choir of Canada, European Union Youth Orchestra, Orchestra London, the Art of Time Ensemble, Rolston String Quartet, Dennis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra, Erin Wall, Susan Platts, Rena Sharon, Simone Osborne, Leslie Fagan, Tracy Dahl, and the Bach Music Festival of Canada Orchestra.

Matthew studied at the University of British Columbia (B.Mus) and the University of Toronto (M.Mus, DMA). Matthew has received over thirty awards and prizes for his compositions and his work has been included on nineteen albums, including a Juno nominated disc. His over sixty publications are published by G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard and many others.

Dr. Emery currently teaches at Carleton University, and the University of Toronto

Katya is a Seattle-based composer whose passion is creating music for film and games.

Katya's diverse musical background allows her to expertly write in a variety of styles and her music is known for providing a strong dramatic narrative. She has composed, orchestrated, and conducted symphonic orchestral works and also produced contemporary music in styles such as rock, electronic, and 8-bit chiptune. Katya holds a Master of Music in Film Composition from her mentor, two-time Emmy award-winning film composer Hummie Mann. Currently she also performs as pianist/keyboardist, lead songwriter, and producer for her original rock project.

For more information, please visit: www.katyasoudek.com

Composer and Pianist making music in Seattle, WA, USA.  
www.stevenluksan.com
Album available at www.stevenluksan.bandcamp.com

Sept. 01, 2016 - The Good Shepherd Center:
https://youtu.be/j_xLrYtHzdA

Twelve friends were to go their separate ways in life so they took advantage of their last day together and went to the beach.

Here, on this beach, lay a large piece of driftwood that held their attention.

Talk of casting away on the driftwood entered the conversation. But while it started as a joke it quickly turned into action. They pushed the driftwood into the water and all climbed aboard, casting away from land to let the water guide their new driftwood ship. They sat quietly, gazing in all directions, stunned silent by their decision.

When the first nighttime arrived they saw light coming from a part of the driftwood. Upon investigation they saw that it was coming from behind a small door, so they opened it and went inside. What they found was a large empty space rather than water. Shrouds of mist glowed in oscillate colors near the entryway.

One by one they giddily crawled into the opening and began hovering in midair, disintegrating into particulate matter and metamorphosing into various perceptions - sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell.

In this stew of new malleable awareness they began combining their natures together in order to create a composite of something they had not known before.

From that first night they christened the driftwood ship the Secret Societal Nomad, dubbed S.S. Nomad, for allowing them to travel to places they normally did not reach in the broad daylight... for allowing them to commune at night with adventures that they shared in deep silence during high noon.

As the driftwood ship passes through rivers, seas, and oceans it passes near the land many times. Many people have seen the S.S. Nomad but they do not know it because it only looks like driftwood wading through the water, its inhabitants living inside of it, disintegrating and reintegrating to be born again the next time they come out of the dead tree.

More often people hear the S.S. Nomad but cannot place the source of the sound. In rare instances people have recorded the passing ambience either on the fringe or in the depths of the nighttime.

Here, in an attempt to dispel the notion that the Nomad is folklore, you will find a collection of audiophiles cataloging the ephemeral and mysterious passing bys of the S.S. Nomad.

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