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Music of Katya Pine

Music for Media

Music for Concert

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Works In Progress

Include:

Choral CompositionCommissioned 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
New Theatrical WorkCollaborating with author and trauma-relief therapist Marcia Jacobs, to create a new work based on her blog about rape culture and women's experiences witnessed first hand during the war in Bosnia and Sarajevo.
Film and Television Works

Include:

Live HorseracingTheme music, CTV’s SportsNet, Calgary Alberta
A Home Away from HomeThree part television documentary by Black Media Works Inc.
WaitingFilm by Knottingham Productions
The Girl Who Married a GhostScreen play, Blue Moon Productions
Toronto Haunts &
The Bettee Show
Television pilots by In Darker Productions
(Co-composed with Sean Bray)
Tradition with a TwistTelevision pilot, BluePine Productions
PuppetShort indie animation film by Raf Anzovin and Dave Boutilier
The ForerunnerSciFi indie film, written and directed by Max Train
The Moving Child I & IIFilms by Hana Kamea Kemble

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Music for Opera

Includes:

BeginningA 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.

More Than a QueenA 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 LaboratoryKatya 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:
The Last Life
Thomas Visited
Fairies for Najma
The Crossing
Tea at Three
Libretto by Sharon Bajer
Libretto by Norman Yeung
Libretto by Anusree Roy
Libretto by Nick Carpenter
Libretto by Sheldon Rosen
Music for Study

Includes:

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
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
These Pedagogical piano solos are compiled in the music book, “Images”
Concert Music

Includes:

A Ring of RhymesCommissioned Cantata for soprano, tenor, small chamber ensemble and optional equal-voiced choir, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
The Garden Going on Without UsSong 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 BirdsSong cycle for mezzo soprano, piano and alto flute, text by Lorna Crozier.
A Piece of Alligator PieSong 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 LifeSong 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.
UmaMusic for the opera/musical “Uma”, co-composed with Kate Major and librettist Virginia Nemetz.
Wood SleevesCommissioned 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.

Production
  • “Always Believe”: musical CD of original children’s music. Composed by Esther Singer of Kidsmusik. Instrumental arrangements and audio engineering by Katya Pine.
Tapestry Composer-Librettist Laboratory

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:

  • “The Last Life” – libretto by Sharon Bajer
  • “Thomas Visited” – libretto by Norman Yeung
  • “Fairies for Najma” – libretto by Anusree Roy
  • “The Crossing” – libretto by Nick Carpenter
  • “Tea at Three” – libretto by Sheldon RosenLibLab
About Tapestry Composer-Librettist Laboratory:

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