Victoria Bound!

Exciting News!

I just found a mere few hours ago that I've been chosen as 1 of 3 composers to be accepted to the Pacific Opera of Victoria's Composer/Librettist workshop. It's an intensive 1 week program in which we'll be paired with a librettist(a writer) to compose short new opera works that are performed at the end of the week.

It'll be a great experience to meet some librettists and some professional artists and will hopefully lead to contacts out West and here in Ontario to start getting my work out. Does this mean a job in composition is a possibility?

I'm ecstatic and I can't wait to go. Plus how can I say no to a trip to Victoria? Anybody out there on the West Coast, who wants to come visit me (Catherine and Ming???) I'll be posting my travel details shortly. The program runs from December 4th to 9th so I hope to be there from the 3rd to the 10th of December. Hopefully you can come visit me out on the Island! I'll of course have my trusty Powerbook and Cell Phone with me.

Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it. Canada Council for the Arts and UWO are my first two targets...

To check out more about the program or to check out the Pacific Opera of Victoria visit their site at: www.pov.bc.ca