Posted on 6.8.10-------------------------------------------------------
On Thursday June 24th, come out to support musical excellence and innovation and your favourite space for boundary-pushing sounds and performances, as the Music Gallery celebrates the end of our season with our annual fundraising event. Entitled "Compose Yourself!" features well-known artists known for their accomplishments outside the world of music, who will be our guest "composers" for the evening — presenting ideas for new musical pieces to be performed on the spot by an improvising super-group.
Our special guest star "composers" are:
Daniel Cooper (retiring Chair, Music Gallery Board of Directors)
Boyd Devereaux (hockey player, Toronto Maple Leafs & Detroit Red Wings; co-founder, Elevation Records)
John Greyson (filmmaker, Fig Trees, The Law of Enclosures, Lilies, Zero Patience)
Christopher House (artistic director, Toronto Dance Theatre)
Shawn Micallef (author, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto; co-founder, [murmur] project; senior editor, Spacing Magazine)
Charles Pachter (world-renowned Canadian contemporary visual artist)
Kerri Sakamoto (novelist, One Hundred Million Hearts, The Electrical Field)
And our multi-talented mega-band includes:
Parmela Attariwala, violin
Rob Clutton, bass
Christine Duncan, voicejavascript:edInsertTag(edCanvas[1],%201);
Eve Egoyan, piano
John Gzowski, guitar
Tilman Lewis, cello
Jean Martin, drums
John Oswald, saxophone
Rick Sacks, percussion
Casey Sokol, piano
Debashis Sinha, electronics
Scott Thomson, trombone
Andrew Timar, suling
