Genres Opera, Concert Music Years active 1988–present | Occupation(s) Composer, Writer | |
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Birth name (Ernest) John Robertson Born October 21, 1943 (age 73)
Auckland, New Zealand ( 1943-10-21 ) Instruments Wind Instrument: Clarinet | ||
(Ernest) John Robertson (21 October 1943) is a New Zealand born Canadian composer of concert music. He received his preliminary musical educational as part of his schooling in New Zealand. Upon emigrating to Canada in 1967 he took a position in the general insurance business but in the mid 1970s he embarked on a course of private study in composition and counterpoint at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Dr Sam Dolin. In 1987 an entry in a composition competition won him a performance of his Variations for small orchestra Op 14, and since then his music has been heard in Canada, Australia, Mexico, the UK, Sweden and Bulgaria. In 2014 after some orchestral pieces of his were played in Ruse, Bulgaria, the Ruse State Opera asked him to write an opera and the one hour long "Orpheus" was staged there in June 2015 and is being revived in February and May 2016.
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Personal life
He currently resides in Kingston, Ontario Canada
Shows
Orpheus is being used as a test piece in the up and coming
BLUE DANUBE INTERNATIONAL OPERA CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2017 (7th Edition) 13 - 29 JULY 2017 For more details; http://www.musikimpresario.com/blue-danube-competition-2017.html