{"id":149034,"date":"2012-03-17T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/robert-rival-resident-composer-of-the-eso\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:25:02","slug":"robert-rival-resident-composer-of-the-eso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/robert-rival-resident-composer-of-the-eso\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Rival, resident composer of the ESO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor a composer writing concert music, there\u2019s nothing more exciting than being the resident composer of a professional orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are the words of Robert Rival, who\u2019s been the resident composer of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra since last September.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor one thing,\u201d the 36-year-old composer continues, \u201cthe fact that you\u2019re on-site for all the rehearsals and performances gives these events more weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rival is the third person to serve as resident composer of the ESO, succeeding Allan Gilliland and John Estacio. And his move from Toronto to Edmonton last year, following the completion of a doctorate in music composition at the University of Toronto, was something of a homecoming for him. Rival is a native Albertan, born in Calgary \u2013 although he doesn\u2019t think that helped him land his job.

\u00a0\u00bb There\u2019s nothing more exciting than being the resident composer of a professional orchestra.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n

\u201cWhen I applied, I don\u2019t think they knew where I was from,\u201d he points out. \u201cThere was an open call for applications, and about 50 composers applied. It was a thorough process, involving many organizational layers of the orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, Rival has a promising compositional r\u00e9sum\u00e9: his music has been played by Toronto\u2019s Gryphon Trio, it\u2019s been broadcast on CBC radio, and he was a featured composer last year at the Windsor Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Canadian Music Festival. But one of the things that gave him an edge with the ESO, he believes, was his commitment to music education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel strongly about the educational components of the job,\u201d Rival explains. \u201cEvery year we select one or two young composers from high schools to write a piece, and it gets performed at an outdoor festival. A background in education and teaching is something that I brought to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, central to Rival\u2019s two-year residency appointment is composing for the ESO: his job requires him to write two pieces a year for the orchestra. His commitment to the orchestra doesn\u2019t currently allow him much time for other projects. Just before he took up his new position in September, he finished a string sextet that was commissioned by the CBC. Then he plunged into the world of orchestral composition.<\/p>\n

Since then he\u2019s finished a tone-poem called Achilles and Scamander, to be premiered at Edmonton\u2019s Winspear Centre by the ESO on March 31. That will be closely followed by his Lullaby \u2013 which will first be heard in New York on May 8, when the ESO appears at Carnegie Hall\u2019s Spring For Music Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first half of the program will be all-Canadian: pieces by John Estacio, Allan Gilliland and me,\u201d says Rival, with a justifiable touch of pride in his voice. \u201cI think it\u2019s heartening that we\u2019re devoting half of the program to living Canadian composers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Putting the accent on education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}