Made up of six of Vancouver’s most sought-after musical multitaskers, Standing Wave is dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary chamber music by Canadian and International composers. The group’s six members—flutist Christie Reside, clarinettist Anne-Katherine Coope, violinist Rebecca Whitling, cellist Peggy Lee, pianist Allen Stiles, and percussionist Vern Griffiths—venture into a wide array of musical worlds with passion and assurance. From the intricate complexities of the music of Howard Bashaw and Chris Paul Harman, to the bold avant-garde jazz of Tony Wilson, and the anarchic electroacoustic imaginings of Giorgio Magnanensi, the ensemble has commissioned and premiered over 70 works in its 20 year history.
Since its formation in1991, Standing Wave has presented an annual season of concerts in Vancouver, has toured across Canada, and has been featured as part of the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Victoria Symphony’s New Currents Festival, and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. In 2011, Standing Wave will be the ensemble in residence at Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival, and will be featured over three nights at Vancouver’s International PuSH Festival, performing All, the ensemble’s multimedia collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Mina Shum. Standing Wave has released two CDs: a self-titled recording released in 1991 and Redline, released in 2006. The ensemble has been recorded many times for CBC Radio; the ensemble’s November 29, 2010 concert will be heard on an upcoming broadcast of CBC 1’s The Signal. Since 2003, Standing Wave has been an Ensemble in Residence at the UBC School of Music.
Selected Repertoire — Written for Standing Wave
Nicole Lizée Sculptress (2010)
Vern Griffiths Two Ring Circus (2010)
Bramwell Tovey The Mackenzie Plunge (2010)*
Veda Hille Vancouver Parks 1970-1982 (2010)*
Alfredo Santa Ana On the Bridge (2010)*
Martin Ritter Lynn Valley Mist (2010)*
Ron Samworth Garry Point (2010)*
Brent Belke Orange Grey (2010)*
*segments from “The Vancouver Suite”, music for Mina Shum’s film/theatre installation “All”
Rodney Sharman Pavane, Galliard, and Variations (2009/2010)
Giorgio Magmanensi aBK (2010)
Jocelyn Morlock Theft (2009)
Achim Kaufmann Faserungen (2009)
Arne Eigenfeldt The Title of Your Book (2008)
Cameron Wilson At the Hop (2008)
Jeffrey Ryan Burn (2008)
Jocelyn Morlock Writing in the Margins (2007)
Giorgio Magnanesi ethuiá VII (2007)
Bradshaw Pack palimpsest: Overture & Violin Solo, Theme & Song, O Misterium Ineffabile/ Arioso Distante
Howard Bashaw 10M-5P-17m (2005)
Gregory Lee Newsome in medias res (2005)
Linda Bouchard Liquid States (2004)
James Beckwith Maxwell Reflectere (2004)
Keith Hamel Adawura (2003)
Thierry Pécou Quelqu’un Parle au Tango (2003)
Chris Paul Harman Incipits (2003)
Jacqueline Leggatt by are in very nod (2003)
Bob Pritchard I/You Have Wounded My Heart (2002)
Giorgio Magnanensi Aila (2002)
André Ristic Environnements improvisés (2002)
John Korsrud Lather (2001)
David MacIntyre Intimate Letters (2001)
Bradshaw Pack palladia (2001)
Nikolai Korndorf Merry Music for Very Nice People (2001)
Peter Hannan your ghost: my machine (2000)
James Maxwell bodig-menen (2000)
Owen Underhill The Gaze (2000)
Peggy Lee Retracing (2000)
François Houle the abstract body abandons itself to light (2000)
Ron Samworth C’est ça (2000)
Bruce Mather Bourgueil (1999)
Michael Bushnell Cloud, Castle, Lake (1999)
William O. Smith 10 X 200 (1999)
James Maxwell forberen (1999)
Itamar Erez Ritornello I & III (1999)
Jacqueline Leggatt Raido (1999)
Bradshaw Pack Ellipsis (…) gleaning eidolons
Peter Hatch Music is a Beautiful Disease (1999)
Chris Miller a long wave (slow) and a tune (nebulous), standing (1999)
Brent Lee Ribbons of Visible Air (1998; revised 1999)
Serge Arcuri Waves (1998)
Jeremy Berkman Try, Try Again (1998)
François Houle Black Triangle (1998)
Doug Smith Music for Madeline (1998)
Bradshaw Pack the earth for you a Standing place (1997)
Paul Dolden The Frenzy of a Standing Wave (1997)
Stéphane Roy Inaccessible Azur (1997)
Tony Wilson Z, #10, For Chet Baker (1997)
Ron Samworth Big Secret (1996)
Guillermo Gregorio impetus; number 12
Jacqueline Leggatt The Big Fugue (1996)
Joëlle Léandre Mister Satie, Tous, Melodie (1996)
Michael Maguire The Bride of Palestine (1995)
Tony Wilson Prayer (1995)
Tony Wilson For Fela Kuti (1995)
Bruce Mather Standing Wave (1994)
John Korsrud Stark Raving (1994)
Tony Wilson Pieces for Standing Wave No. 1, 2, and 3 (1994)
Ian Crutchley Music Book (in eight movements) (1993)
Chris Miller knock, grind (and a long standing wave) (1993)
Performed by Standing Wave:
Kati Agócs Immutable Dreams
Gilbert Amy En Trio
Georges Aperghis Graffitis; récitation 9; récitation 14
Sergio Barroso Crómicas de Ultrasueño
Bob Becker Prisoners of the Image Factory; Palta (arranged by David Carlisle)
Alan Bell Monashee: Three Lyrical Sketches
Alban Berg Adagio; Four Pieces Opus 5
Linda Bouchard Réciproque
Pierre Boulez Dérive
Tim Brady Circling; Double Helix; Three or four Days after the Death of Kurt Cobain
Anthony Braxton composition 148 (+1+105a+23c)
John Cage Nocturne
John Cage Bacchanale
John Cage Six Melodies
Elliot Carter Con Leggerezza Pensosa: Omaggio a Italo Calvino; Triple Duo
John Celona Glass Bowls; Instrument Flying
Brian Cherney Echoes in the Memory
Jeffrey Cotton Meditation, Rhapsody, and Bacchanale
George Crumb Dream Sequence; Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965
George Crumb Vox Balaenae
Edison Denisov Ode
Joël-François Durand la mesure des choses – 1 – la mesure de l’air
Egberto Gismonti Infancia
Gerard Grisey Solo pour deux; Vortex Temporum
Peter Hatch A Chopsticks Fantasy (Mildred’s Thoughts); When do they is not the same as why do they
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question (arranged by François Houle)
Alexina Louie Cadenzas
René Lussier Forever West, Toujours à l’Ouest
Missy Mazzoli Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos
Missy Mazzoli Still Life With Avalanche
Stephen Montague Tigida Pipa
Tristan Murail Feuilles a Travers les Cloches
Michael Oesterle l’effusione d’amicizia 4
Thierry Pécou Nocturne
Steve Reich Pieces of Wood
Frederic Rzewski Coming Together
Kaija Saariaho Serenatas
Somei Satoh Toki no Mon (A Gate into Infinity)
Giacinto Scelsi The Piccolo Suite; Kho Lho
Arnold Schoenberg String Trio Opus 45
Salvatore Sciarrino Come vengona prodotti gli incantesima?
Salvatore Sciarrino Lo Spazio Inverso
Rob Smith Sprint
Bent Sorensen The Deserted Churchyards
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II
Andrew Toovey White Fire
Sean Varah Slipping Image
Claude Vivier Paramirabo; Pulau Dewata
Ian Wilson Timelessly This
Iannis Xenakis Ikhoor
