Barbara Assiginaak
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Barbara Assiginaak (born 8 November 1966) is an Anishinaabek musician and composer from Ontario, Canada.[1]
Barbara Assiginaak, previously known as Barbara Croall, was born on 8 November 1966. She is Odawa First Nations, and is a composer known for combining Western and traditional Anishinaabe First Nations approaches into her work.[1] From a young age, she has been playing the pipigwan (wood flute) and the dewe'igan (drum), and is also classically trained in piano. Her compositions draw from traditional forms of oral storytelling and have roots in Anishinaabe teachings and styles such as microtonality and pitch bends.[2]
Education
She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1995 with a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Composition. She also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich, Germany, and was the first female composer to study music composition at the institution.[1] She is also classically trained by and has diplomas from the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Centre Acanthes in France.[2]
Career
Her composition The Four Directions, based on the First Nations teachings and referencing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons won the Glenn Gould Prize after its premiere at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Between 1998 and 2000, Assiginaak was a resident composer for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and her compositions were performed under conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Her composition When Push Comes to Shove also premiered at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Saraste.[1]
As of 2023, she is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Music at Wilfred Laurier University, where she teaches music composition.[3]
Awards
- Member of the Order of Canada (2023)[4]
- Nominated for Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition[5]
- Glenn Gould Prize for Composition (1989)[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wright-McLeod, Brian (2018). The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0816524488. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Barbara Assiginaak". Native Drum RSS. Retrieved 21 Feb 2024.
- ↑ "Laurier scholars Barbara Assiginaak and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann appointed members of Order of Canada". Wilfred Laurier University. Retrieved 21 Feb 2024.
- ↑ "Barbara Assiginaak". The Governor General of Canada.
- ↑ Leung, Wayne. "ANNOUNCEMENT: 2012 DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARDS NOMINEES". Mooney on Theatre. Retrieved 21 Feb 2024.
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