Our Year in Scotland

Chapter I

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

NEWS

12 Years in the Making

Collaborations

–a new CD of music composed between 1994 and 2006

- click on the album cover for complete details

August 2007 - August 2008

I am currently on a 1-year sabbatical from my position at Grant MacEwan College. I will be living in Scotland until August 2008 starting a PhD in Composition at the University of Edinburgh. My email address gillilanda@macewan.ca remains the same and you can go to my contact page for my address and phone number in Scotland.

2008

April

The premiere broadcast of Dreaming of the Masters II from February 22/23. 2008 can now be heard at CBC Radio 2 - Concerts on Demand.

The book trailer for "The Questory of Root Karbunkulus", which I wrote the music for, won a Covey Award for "Best Author Made Book Video". This award is judged by Readers Entertainment Television (REC TV), which includes award winning screen writers and directors. Their goal is to recognize Book Trailers that would make you interested in the book, make you stop and perhaps visit the authors website to read the excerpt. You can see the trailer in the Works-film scoring section of my web page.

May

HANNARAPTOR PLAYS TO OVER 8,000 PEOPLE, MANY OF THEM CHILDREN SEEING AN OPERA FOR THEIR FIRST TIME. Hannaraptor was commissioned by Calgary Opera and performed by members of their Emerging Artist Development Program. It toured Calgary and southern Alberta schools and communities in April and and then had 5 public performances at Vertigo Theatre in Calgary, May 2-4 2008.

June

Hannaraptor chosen to be showcased at OperaAmerica's 2008 conference in Denver Colorado. This amazing opportunity will bring this new 1-act to the attention of opera companies from North America and around the world.

October

I will be composer-in-residence at the Colours of Music Festival in Barrie, Ontario. Works performed dusing the festival include; Cancion, Winspear Fanfare and a new arrangement of Sambake. I will also compose a new work for the boys choir Amabile and give a public lecture on my music.

October 23 - American Premiere of Dreaming of the Masters II with the Berkeley Symphony Orchesrtra. William Eddins soloist and conductor.