| Choral Composition | Commissioned by Ensemble ArtChoral. Choral composition for a poem from “Dialect of Distant Harbors” by Dipika Mukherjee. To be performed and recorded during summer 2023. Funded by Canada Council for the Arts. Ensemble ArtChoral |
| Podcast Series | Ongoing discussions with author and trauma-relief therapist Marcia Jacobs to collaborate for the creation of a new podcast series based on her blog about rape culture and women's experiences witnessed first hand during the war in Bosnia and Sarajevo. |
| Beginning | A 20-minute chamber opera, recently completed and awaiting its world premiere, is a futuristic 'apocalyptic love story' for soprano, tenor and piano. Written collaboratively with Germaine Shames, U.S. playwright and librettist. Beginning |
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| More Than a Queen | A full-length 3-act opera on the libretto by f.g. klingenberg. In piano/vocal score, depicts the life of the Empress Josephine Bonaparte, before, during and after the French Revolution. Through a feminist perspective, the opera explores ideas of identity and home for colonial peoples, and highlights contemporary issues regarding sex, gender and learned roles that are relevant today. | |||
| Tapestry Composer-Librettist Laboratory | Katya participated in the 2011 Tapestry Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab), an intensive collaborative to create 5 new operatic scenes. Two of the works premiered at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille:
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| Live Horseracing | Theme music, CTV’s SportsNet, Calgary Alberta |
| A Home Away from Home | Three part television documentary by Black Media Works Inc. |
| Waiting | Film by Knottingham Productions |
| The Girl Who Married a Ghost | Screen play, Blue Moon Productions |
| Toronto Haunts & The Bettee Show | Television pilots by In Darker Productions (Co-composed with Sean Bray) |
| Tradition with a Twist | Television pilot, BluePine Productions |
| Puppet | Short indie animation film by Raf Anzovin and Dave Boutilier |
| The Forerunner | SciFi indie film, written and directed by Max Train |
| The Moving Child I & II | Films by Hana Kamea Kemble |
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| Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s (CNCM) publication series “Northern Lights”, (2007 - 2009) | |
| “Around Again”, Level 1 Repertoire “Zeke’s Video Game Adventure” Level 1 Repertoire “Cool Cat Waltz”, Level 4 Repertoire & RCM new piano series “Jazz at the Bistro”, Level 5 Repertoire, Grade 7 2015 RCM Syllabus |
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| Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s publication series “Making Tracks”, (2006 - 2008) | |
| "The Trains at Palmerston”, Advanced piano solo and level 10 RCM substitution list “Ghost Town”, Intermediate piano solo |
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| These Pedagogical piano solos are compiled in the music book, “Images” | |
| A Ring of Rhymes | Commissioned Cantata for soprano, tenor, small chamber ensemble and optional equal-voiced choir, funded by the Ontario Arts Council. |
| The Garden Going on Without Us | Song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, set to the poetry of well-known Canadian poet and 2011 Order of Canada recipient, Lorna Crozier. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus for advanced study. |
| Wild Birds | Song cycle for mezzo soprano, piano and alto flute, text by Lorna Crozier. |
| A Piece of Alligator Pie | Song cycle for soprano and piano, composed to words by the popular Canadian children’s poet, Dennis Lee. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus. |
| A Salutation to Life | Song cycle for soprano, piano, sitar and tamboura. |
| “A Piece of Alligator Pie” and “A Salutation to Life” were performed by Katya with Esther Ewing, soprano, on CBC’s “Music Toronto”, in a broadcast dedicated to Katya’s music. Hosted by Barbara Smith. | |
| Uma | Music for the opera/musical “Uma”, co-composed with Kate Major and librettist Virginia Nemetz. |
| Wood Sleeves | Commissioned by Vancouver's Erato Ensemble to create an arrangement of this art song. Performed by the Ensemble, February 2019. www.EratoEnsemble.com The text of this work written by and dedicated to the late poet Mary Aitken. |
Katya Pine was selected from an international list of composers to participate in the 2011 Tapestry Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab), an annual intensive collaborative 10 day program, where she composed new operatic scenes, with 5 different Librettists. These works, premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille, were:
Tapestry is a Canada based organization dedicated to the creation, development and performance of new opera through its unique and highly collaborative work processes. Tapestry’s annual “Composer-Librettist Laboratory”, promotes the development of new opera and music theatre, is held during the month of August each year. For more information about Tapestry, the Composer-Librettist Laboratory and Opera Briefs, contact: http://www.tapestrynewopera.com