Henry Kucharzyk maintains an active career in the forefront of Canadian contemporary music as a composer, pianist and keyboard player, record producer, thereminist and conductor. His works reflect his interests in digital music as well as analog. spatial ised music and choreography, and unconventional instrumental forces. Mr. Kucharzyk began his formal training as a composer at the University of Toronto with John Beckwith and John Weinzweig. He then received his Masters degree from the Yale School of Music, where Earle Brown, Jacob Druckman and Morton Subotnick were among his teachers, and also pursued studies in computer music at Stanford University with John Chowning and Leland Smith. He has been called “one of Canadian music's explorers” and the over fifty works in his catalogue reflect the variety of his musical interests and include both conventional concert forces as well as unique instrumental and electronic combinations.
His works have been presnted at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), the Athens Festival (Greece), Musiques en Scene (Lyon, Fr.), the Bourges Festival (français), the Banff Summer Festival , the Montreal Jazz Festival , Wien Modern (Aus.) and New Music America.
As a conductor he has led orchestral performances of his own works at EXPO 86, the National Arts Centre Ottawa, Place des Arts Montreal and the Wolftrap Festival.
He has had a long association with ARRAYMUSIC the Toronto-based new music ensmble, first as Artistic Director for five years, and currently as its conductor. And he has released twenty-seven compact discs on Artifact Music, the label which he created in 1985.
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