Derek Charke
Derek Charke
Genres: Canadian, canada
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About Derek Charke
Derek Charke is emerging as a powerful and original voice on the Canadian musical landscape. His recently commissioned works for the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet have been performed around the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Concert House. His music has also been performed widely by groups such as the Acadia Wind Ensemble, Continuum New Music, Ensemble Symposium, Four Gallon Drum, The Group for Contemporary Music, Helikon Ensemble, Katona Twins, Mark McGregor and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa Duo, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Saxophilia, London Flutes, Society for Chromatic Arts, Quatuor Bozzini and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. His works have been broadcast internationally and nationally on CBC Radio Two In Performance and on Radio-Canada. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Dr. Charke completed his Ph.D. in composition and Masters in flute performance at SUNY Buffalo where he studied composition with David Felder and flute performance with Cheryl Gobbetti Hoffman. Previous composition teachers include Louis Andriessen, Steve Martland, Paul Patterson, Cindy McTee and Martin Mailman. Other schools he attended include the Royal Conservatory of Music (Netherlands), the Royal Academy of Music (England), and the University of North Texas. Recipient of the NUFFIC grant by the Dutch government, he also received a BMI student composer award in New York City and the Outstanding Undergraduate Award in Composition from the University of North Texas. Between 2001 and 2005 he was the recipient of a four year Presidential Fellowship (the largest fellowship awarded) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Derek Charke is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre.
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