Robert Pritchard
Birthdate: April 16, 1956
Birthplace: Calgary, Alberta
7346 Capistrano Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A 1P8
(604) 420-2409
Citizenship: Canadian
EDUCATION
1992
Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1982
Master of Music in Composition
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1978
Bachelor of Music in Composition
(theory secondary, oboe performance)
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1993-
School of Music
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C.
1992-93
Department of Music
Douglas College
New Westminster, B.C.
1989
Department of Physics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C.
1982-89
Department of Music
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
AFFILIATIONS
Co-Director UBC Music, Sound, and Electroacoustic Technology group (MuSET)
Co-Director Sonic UBC Laptop Sounds and Sensors (SUBCLASS)
Researcher UBC Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
Faculty Associate UBC Media And Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC)
Faculty Associate UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS)
Member UBC Computational Sound and Music group (CoSM)
Regional Council Canadian Music Centre- BC Region (Former Chair)
Art Music Promotion http://www.artmusicpromotion.org
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REPRESENTATIVE CATALOG OF WORKS
DIVA (Digital Ventriloquized Actor)
What Does A Body Know?(2009)
for DIVA and electroacoustics;
Music/diffusion: B. Pritchard; Libretto: M. Cadell;
Michael?(2011)
for three DIVAs and electroacoustics;
Music/diffusion: B. Pritchard; Libretto: M. Cadell;
FILM/VIDEO
Postcards From Our Futures (1989) Optional video component (2003)
Piano, soundfiles, and optional video
Electroacoustics, music, and images by Bob Pritchard
Premiere: Convergence, 1990 Canadian Electrocacoustic Community
Conference, Banff, Alberta, Barbara Pritchard, piano; Bob Pritchard, diffusion
Premiere of video component: Nov., 17, 22 2003 Sackville & Halifax,
Barbara Pritchard, piano
ELECTROACOUSTIC AND INSTALLATIONS
“Time Angles” (2015)
Bob Pritchard, video edits
With “Time Clips, Primitive” (solo piano, performed by Jane Coop)
Premiere: April 17, 2015 The Ironworks, Vancouver, B.C.
Re-wilding the Syrinx (2014)
Audio sculpture Installation: Krista Dragomer and Bob Pritchard.
Premiere: Nov.1, 2014, Babycastles Gallery + Interspace,
Manhatten, NY.
“Crisis” from 17 Short Films About Breast Cancer (2007)
Bob Pritchard, director. Cathryn Robertson, producer.
Cinematography, editing, post-production, sound/music by Bob Pritchard
C. Robertson: Executive director for 17 Short Films About Breast
Cancer: Distributor: Fanlight Productions, Brooklyn NY
Unique Award of Merit 2007, Canadian Society of Cinematographers
In the Trees 1, In the Trees 2 (2013)
Video Installation: Krista Dragomer and Bob Pritchard.
Premiere: Nov.7 - 10, 2013, Ecomusicology Listening Room 2,
American Musicological Conference, Pittsburgh, USA.
SOLO INSTRUMENT WITH INTERACTIVE PROCESSING AND/OR VIDEO
Strength2 (2015)
For soprano saxophone, dancer, and Max/MSP/Jitter audio/video
Electroacoustics, software, music, cinematography and images by Bob
Pritchard
Premiere: SaxOpen, July 9, 2015 Julia Nolan, sax; Katherine Ricketts,
dance; Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, Strasbourg, France.
Rebirth (2013)
For alto flute, sound and video clips, and Max/MSP/Jitter audio/video
Electroacoustics, software, music, cinematography and images by Bob
Pritchard
Premiere: Sonic Boom Festival, March 22, 2013 Chenoa Anderson,
Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, B.C.
Beneath the Skin (2006)
For cello, sound and video files, and Max/MSP/Jitter audio/video
Electroacoustics, software, music, cinematography and images by Bob
Pritchard
Premiere: September 2006, Roberta Botelli,
Telus Theatre, Vancouver, B.C.
Strength (2006)
For alto saxophone and Max/MSP and video
Electroacoustics, software, music, and images by Bob Pritchard
Cinematography by Cathryn Robertson
Premiere: July 2006, Julia Nolan, 2006 World Saxophone Congress,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
ISCM Canadian Section submission
Breathe On Me (2004)
For accordion and Max/MSP/Jitter audio/video
Electroacoustics, software, music, and images by Bob Pritchard
Premiere: August 2004, Joseph Petric, Festival Vancouver, Vancouver.
B.C.
Escape My Soul (1996)
bass flute and Max/MSP
Music and software by Bob Pritchard
Premiere: March 1996, Katheryn Cernauskas, Vancouver New Music
Society, Vancouver. B.C.
Where the Wild Things Were (2013)
Sound Sculpture Installation: Krista Dragomer and Bob Pritchard.
Premiere: August 10, 2013 MacLaren Southampton Art Centre,
Southampton, NJ, USA..
The Aurora on All Three Channels (2000)
Sound Sculpture Installation: Richard Prince, Ed Casas, David
Floren, Keith Hamel and Bob Pritchard.
Premiere: Feb. 8 - March 19, 2000 MacLaren Art Centre. Barrie,
Ont.
Soundscape for "La Maison" (1984)
Installation work by Carol Bretzloff, Suzanne Joubert, Jane Martin,
Merijean Morrissey, and Susan Geraldine Taylor.
Premiere: February 12, 1985, UQAM Gallery, Montréal, Québec.
Escarpment Series (1984)
Three touch-sensitive sound sculptures. Collaboration with M. Kropf.
Premiere: September 21, 1984, Arts and Sciences Festival, North Bay,
Ontario.
Movement (1983)
Installation for drawings and tape loops.
Collaboration with R. Creighton.
Premiere: December 2, 1983, Hamilton Artists, Inc., Hamilton, Ontario.
Commissioned by R. Creighton, Ontario Arts Council
Soundscape for “Waltzing Tent, Singing Box” (1983)
Installation work by Anne Severs
Premiere: April 5, 1983. The Gallery, Brock Centre for the Arts
ELECTROACOUSTIC (SOUNDFILES W/WO PERFORMER(S))
Twisted Mirror, Shattered Dream (1993)
Released on Canadian Electroacoustic Community CD Electroclips 1994
Flight Paths (1988)
Premiere: 1989 University of British Columbia
Escarpment (1984)
Canadian Electroacoustic Community 1984
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ELECTROACOUSTIC AND IMAGES/SCUPTURE
Visions III (1986)
Sound files, 35 mm. slides, textured 3D screen.
Electroacoustics and images by Bob Pritchard
Premiere: 1986, Brock University, Ontario
INTERACTIVE AUDIO
Face Off (1991)
Real-time interactive performance piece/game for two MIDI-LAN
Macintosh computers and synthesizers.
Premiere: 1991, Vancouver, B.C., Vancouver New Music Society
ORCHESTRA
Begin the Begame (2000)
Big band and skaters.
Written for the ice age.
Premiere: April 15, 2000 Kerrisdale Arena, Vancouver, B.C.
Hard Rubber Orchestra, John Korsrud, conductor
Love Me Rite (1994)
Written for The Elvis Cantata.
Premiere: September 24, 1994, St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church,
Vancouver, B.C.
Hard Rubber Orchestra, John Korsrud, conductor,
Cathy Pedersen, soprano. CBC Television production 2005
Desert Streams (1993)
Premiere: January 16 - 18, 1993, Penticton, Vernon, Salmon Arm,
Kelowna, B.C.
Okanagan Symphony, Leonard Camplin, conductor.
Swallow, Egg, Chrysanthemum (1992)
Orchestra
Out of the Mouths (rev. 1984)
Premiere: August 8, 1984, Banff, Alberta,
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Victor Feldbrill, conductor.
CHAMBER MUSIC
Homesick 想 家 (2015)
Erhu and piano
Nicole Li, erhu; Corey Hamm, piano
Premiere: Jan. 30, 2015, Roy Barnett Recital Hall, UBC, Vancouver
I/You Have Wounded My Heart (2002)
Clarinet, violin, ‘cello, piano, and percussion.
Premiere: November 17, 2002, Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
Vancouver, B.C.
Standing Wave Ensemble
…flow mingled down… (2002)
Grand piano/mistuned upright and percussion
Premiere: October 19, 2002, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Barbara Pritchard, piano; Beverley Johnston, percussion
ISCM Canadian Section submission
Balance (1984) for Bb clarinet and tape
Classique 625 (1987)
String quartet.
Premiere: September 25, 1987, START Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Cartier String Quartet
Steel On Edge (1982)
Premiere: January 20, 1983, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario
Douglas Perry, viola; Charlotte Moon, harp.
CHAMBER MUSIC WITH ELECTROACOUSTICS
Washed (in the blood) (2011)
Violin, French horn, percussion, and Max/MSP/Jitter audio/video.
Premiere: April 10, 2011, Toronto New Music concerts, Toronto Ont.
When the walls are all screaming (1993)
Soprano, piano and tape
Premiere: May 17, 1993, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Ontario
B. Hannigan, soprano; Barbara Pritchard, piano.
Balance (1984) for Bb clarinet and tape
Premiere: Richard Hornsby, 1984 Festival of Live Electronic Music (Toronto)
Steel On Edge (1982)
Viola, harp, and tape
Premiere: January 20, 1983, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario
Douglas Perry, viola; Charlotte Moon, harp.
The Moon is a Loser (1982)
Soprano, and tape
1982 Festival of Live Electronic Music (Toronto)
CHORAL
Three Songs of Life (2000)
for Women’s Choir (SSAA chorus), Handbells, and Gestures. Text by Bob
Pritchard
Premiere: March 17, 2000, Ryerson United Church, Vancouver New Music
Society, Vancouver, B.C.
Owen Underhill, conductor
[Premiere (Resurrections): Elektra Women's Choir, Diane Loomer,
conductor.]
Three Songs: Snow, Night, A Kind of Feast
Texts by Anne Hebert, translated by Alan Brown
Premiere: November 23, 1989, University of British Columbia Recital Hall,
Vancouver, B.C.
University Singers, James Fankhauser, Conductor.
SOLO KEYBOARD
Time Clips, Primitive (1993)
Piano solo.
Premiere: Nov. 2, 1993, Jane Mallet Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto,
Ontario,
Jane Coop, piano.
Conjunctions (1991)
Piano solo.
Premiere: February 6, 1992, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Barbara Pritchard, piano.
Meditation (1986)
Organ solo.
Premiere: May 4, 1986, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver,
at Morning Prayer with the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Interiors (1985)
Tenor recorder.
Premiere: January 31, 1985, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Peter Hannan, recorder.
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