Art Connects | Uninvited Voices in Music

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In this edition of Art Connects, Jack Campbell, curator of New Music at the Gallery, is joined by musicians Farangis Nurulla and Linda Catlin Smith. Together, they will discuss women’s voices within Canadian music history; Canadian cultural identity within contemporary music; notions of diversity, influence and impact; and the evolution each artist envisions for the future of Canadian music. 

This special Art Connects talk is a prelude to the concert Uninvited: New Music Voices taking place on December 16, 2022 at the Gallery. Details here »

This talk will be presented on Zoom and streamed live to the Gallery’s Facebook account here »

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jack Campbell is a conceptual sound artist, composer, violinist, guitarist, arts administrator, producer, and curator based in Vancouver, BC. He has worked in multiple capacities with a wide array of arts organizations, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Chali-Rosso Gallery, CMCBC, CMC Ontario (Activate Composers Program), Vancouver Pro Musica, Redshift Music, Redshift Records, 100.5FM Radio, Vancouver Women’s Musical Society, Vancouver Art Gallery Connects, UBC Connects, UBC Robson Square Concerts, Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Day of Music and Jean Coulthard Readings), International Thomas Pynchon Week, Group 302 Theatre,  SUM Gallery, UBC String Orchestra, Canadian Music Week (Maria’s Records/Paradalis studio), and UBC Symphony Orchestra. As a violinist and guitarist, he is a frequent solo recitalist, new music specialist, and soloist with local ensembles. He is one half of the violin/piano Matrix duo with Mina McKenzie, who frequently concertize, record, and realize sound art  in various capacities. Other chamber music activities include performing with the violin/piano/clarinet Magnolia Trio, and as the second violinist in contemporary music specializing the New Coast String Quartet. Campbell is also a frequent performer for live theatre, radio productions, LPs, music videos, sound art installations, and recording projects by noted composers. He has commissioned and debuted multiple pieces for solo violin by Canadian composers, has released an album of solo guitar music, and is dedicated to evolving the public understanding of the role of contemporary music in Canada through performance, recording, public outreach, and concert design. As a composer, Campbell’s music is frequently performed across the province by solo artists, ensemble, and his own initiatives and colleagues. His music focusses on tying together music with themes in mathematics, modern art, quantum mechanics, and dance. Notable performed works—all written in collaboration with and/or featured by national arts organizations include: two solo violin works; two solo piano works; a single movement concerto for two violins and ensemble; a piece for eight percussionists; a string quartet; a miniature string orchestra work; and a miniature violin/piano/clarinet trio.Campbell is an award recipient at the UBC School of Music, where he is pursuing a degree in Advanced Violin Performance. His primary mentors and teachers are Jasper Wood, Eric Wilson, Rodney Sharman, T. Patrick Carrabre, and Samuel Andreyev. Campbell works as Music Curator and Concert Production Consultant at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where he curates the New Music at the Gallery Concert series, and Assistant to the Director at Redshift Records/Redshift Music Society. Outside of work, Campbell enjoys: helping Canadian Music legend Colin Miles write his memoirs in music, researching Robert Rauschenberg and Thomas Pynchon, living a vegan lifestyle, and playing with his rabbit.

Farangis Nurulla-Khoja is a Tajik-Canadian composer born in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in the family of well-known Tajik composer, Ziyodullo Shahidi. She holds a PhD of Fine Arts in Composition (University of Göteborg, Sweden). Having also studied at the University of California in San Diego as well as at IRCAM (Paris). Farangis lives by the criteria of the international life and follows the aesthetic language of contemporary music.

As a musician, her focus is on vocal intonations and its unique ability to influence our perception and understanding of our surroundings.She works with the conviction that dance is the complement of music, and that language – particularly the language of poets – is above all a series of communicative sounds. For her, making music is a journey into the unknown, a search for sounds unheard and forms unseen. Farangis compositions have been performed in concerts and in international festivals of contemporary music in Europe, North-America and Asia. She has also received numerous awards and prizes including the Guggenheim fellowship.

Farangis live in Canada, in the beautiful city of Longueuil (next to Montreal) with her two beautiful children and her life partner.

Linda Catlin Smith grew up in New York and lives in Toronto. She studied music in NY, and at the University of Victoria (Canada). Her music has been performed and/or recorded by: BBC Scottish Orchestra, Exaudi, Tafelmusik, Other Minds Festival, California Ear Unit, Kitchener-Waterloo, Victoria and Vancouver Symphonies, Arraymusic, Tapestry New Opera, Gryphon Trio, Via Salzburg, Evergreen Club Gamelan, Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver New Music, and the Del Sol, Penderecki, and Bozzini quartets, among many others; she has been performed by many notable soloists, including Eve Egoyan, Elinor Frey, Philip Thomas, Colin Tilney, Vivienne Spiteri, and Jamie Parker.  She has been supported in her work by the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Foundation, K.M. Hunter Award, Banff Centre, SOCAN Foundation and Toronto Arts Council; in 2005 her work Garland (for Tafelmusik) was awarded Canada’s prestigious Jules Léger Prize. In addition to her work as an independent composer, she was Artistic Director of the Toronto ensemble Arraymusic from 1988 to 1993, and she was a member of the ground-breaking multidisciplinary performance collective, URGE, from 1992-2006. Linda teaches composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.