Bio

Andrew Staniland

Composer

Bio



Described as a “new music visionary” (National Arts Centre), composer Andrew Staniland has established himself as one of Canada’s most important and innovative musical voices. His music is performed and broadcast internationally and has been described by Alex Ross in the New Yorker Magazine as “alternately beautiful and terrifying”. Important accolades include 3 Juno nominations, an ECMA award, the 2016 Terra Nova Young Innovators Award , the National Grand Prize winner of EVOLUTION (presented in 2009 by CBC Radio 2/Espace Musique and The Banff Centre), and was the recipient of the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music in 2004. As a leading composer of his generation, Andrew has been recognized by election to the Inaugural Cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Royal Society of Canada. 


Andrew was an Affiliate Composer to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (2006-09) and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2002–04), and has also been in residence at the Centre du Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris, 2005). Recent commissioners include the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Andrew also performs as a guitarist and with new media (computers and electronics). 


Andrew is currently on faculty at Memorial University in St John’s Newfoundland, where he founded MEARL (Memorial ElectroAcoustic Research Lab). At MEARL, Andrew leads a cross-disciplinary research team that has produced the innovative Mune digital instrument: www.munemusic.com

AWARDS AND HONOURS


  • 2023        ECMA Award Nomination: Reddened by Hammer. Classical Recording of the Year.
  • 2023        ECMA Award Nomination: Notre Dame is Burning. Classical Composition of the Year.
  • 2022        Music NL Classical Artist of the Year - nominee
  • 2021 ECMA Award Nomination: Peter Quince at the Clavier. Classical Composition of the Year.
  • 2020 Orion Constellation Theory selected for performance as part of the official Canadian selection for the ISCM World Music Days in Auckland/Christchurch New Zealand. 
  • 2019 ECMA Award Nomination: Earthquakes and Islands. Classical Composition of the Year. 
  • 2018 Nickel Independent Film Festival Best Music Award for the original score “Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt”
  • 2018 JUNO Nomination: Phi, Caelestis. Classical Composition of the Year. 
  • 2018 ECMA Award: The River is Within Us. Classical Composition of the Year. 
  • 2017 JUNO Nomination: Dark Star Requiem. Classical Composition of the Year. 
  • 2017 JUNO Nomination: Dark Star Requiem. Classical Recording of the Year: Choral or Vocal.
  • 2016 Terra Nova Young Innovators Award, Suncor/Memorial University. ($50,000)
  • 2015 University of Lethbridge Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. 
  • 2014 Elected to the Inaugural Cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Royal Society of Canada (RSC). 
  • 2014 President’s Award for Outstanding Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland. 
  • 2014 Harry Freedman Recording Award: Talking Down the Tiger. 
  • 2012 Pentagrams selected as part of the official Canadian selection for the 2014 ISCM World Music Days in Wroclaw, Poland.
  • 2012 International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011. Finalist. National Academy of Music (USA).
  • 2010 Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Research and Development Corporation IRIF Ignite! Research Grant: $ 100,000
  • 2010 Nominated for the KM Hunter Award in Music – Ontario Arts Council. 
  • 2009 National Grand Prize ($20,000), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Evolution Composers Competition: Devolution 
  • 2009 Prix de l'Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Evolution Composers Competition: Devolution
  • 2008 First Prize, Prairie Emerging composer Award: Protestmusik 
  • 2007 Gaia chosen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to represent Canada at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, France. 
  • 2007 Second Prize, Pierre Mercure Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: Full Circle
  • 2006 First Prize, Hugh LeCaine Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: Despite Bright Ideas
  • 2006 Second Prize, Pierre Mercure Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: Air
  • 2006 After the Crash selected for performance during the 2007 ISCM World Music Days in Hong Kong
  • 2005 First Prize, Pierre Mercure Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: After the Crash
  • 2004 Finalist, Toronto Symphony Orchestra New Creations Competition
  • 2004 Toronto Emerging Composer Award
  • 2004 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music: Tapestry
  • 2002 Third Prize, Sir Earnest MacMillan Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: Variations on a Theme by D.H. Lawrence
  • 2002 Third Prize, Pierre Mercure Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: for violin #3
  • 2001 Second Prize, Godfrey Ridout Award, SOCAN Young Composers Competition: 13 Images


LATEST WORK

2023 - 2024

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