History of Electroacoustic Music in Canada

Composer, performer and professor alcides lanza will lecture at the Music Department. His presentation will focus on "Hugh Le Caine and the History of Electroacoustic Music in Canada" with a special focus on the history of electroacoustic music in Montreal. alcides lanza's presentation will be delivered as part of Ricardo Dal Farra's Edison to iPod course.

alcides lanza is a Canadian-Argentinian composer, conductor and pianist born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1929. Having received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, he moved to New York in 1965, and lived there until 1971.

He worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In 1971 he was appointed professor of composition at the Faculty of Music of McGill University. lanza is Director Emeritus of the Electronic Music Studio of McGill University.

When:

Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 2:15-3:45 pm.

Where:

Music Department, room RF-10
Concordia University, Loyola Campus

Cost:

Free