Multireedist Lori Freedman presents Girlfriend, a concert with the Contact contemporary music ensemble, at the Music Gallery (Toronto) on March 8, 2006. Featuring new works, such as Freedman’s Brief Candles, and low memory #3 by Monique Jean.

The compositions Le vertige inconnu by Gilles Gobeil, and Pythagoras’s Curtain by John Young are amongst the selected works for a Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama concert, held on February 7, 2006 at the Academy Concert Hall (Glasgow, UK). On February 16, 2006, Young will give a talk about his compositional work at the RSAMD Guinness Room.

Composer Robert Normandeau will give a concert at City University in London (UK) on February 14, 2006 featuring his works Chorus, Palimpseste, StrinGDberg as well as Montréalers Martin Bédard’s Check-point and Nicolas Bernier’s … sans quoi les imperméables jaunes existeront…. The following week, he will give a concert at De Monfort University (Leicester, UK) with a similar programme, is addition to the compositions of local composers.

The world premiere of Adrian Moore’s new work, Rococo Variations, will be held at Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh (UK) on February 3, 2006, during the Soundings… Festival next concert series.

Francis Dhomont will give a concert at the [sonor] festival in Nantes (France) on March 9, 2006, featuring Corps et âme, L’air du large, Figures de la nuit / Faces of the Night, À l’orée du conte, Chambre interdite, Un autre Printemps, and L’électro. Afterwards, Dhomont will be the guest of the Lovebytes festival in Sheffield (UK) on March 25, 2006. The composer will present Here and There, En cuerdas, Un autre Printemps, Lettre de Sarajevo, Phonurgie, and Corps et âme.

The premiere of Trade Winds by Natasha Barrett will take place on February 5, 2006 at the Harstad Kulturhus (Norway) during the festival for contemporary music Ilios.