Made up of six of Vancouver’s most sought-after musical multitaskers, Standing Wave is dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary chamber music by Canadian and International composers. The group’s six members—flutist Christie Reside, clarinettist Anne-Katherine Coope, violinist Rebecca Whitling, cellist Peggy Lee, pianist Allen Stiles, and percussionist Vern Griffiths—venture into a wide array of musical worlds with passion and assurance. From the intricate complexities of the music of Howard Bashaw and Chris Paul Harman, to the bold avant-garde jazz of Tony Wilson, and the anarchic electroacoustic imaginings of Giorgio Magnanensi, the ensemble has commissioned and premiered over 80 works in its 26 year history.
Since its formation in 1991, Standing Wave has presented an annual season of concerts in Vancouver, has toured across Canada, and been featured as part of the Vancouver New Music Festival, the Victoria Symphony’s New Currents Festival, and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. In 2014, 2015 and 2016, Standing Wave performed the opening concerts of the annual VSO New Music Festivals; the ensemble performed the festival’s closing concert in 2017. In 2011, Standing Wave was the ensemble in residence at Vancouver Pro Musica’s Sonic Boom Festival, and was featured over three nights at Vancouver’s International PuSh Festival, performing ALL, the ensemble’s multimedia collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Mina Shum. Standing Wave has released four CDs: New Wave (2017), Liquid States (2013), Redline (2007), and a self-titled recording (1991). The ensemble has been recorded many times for CBC Radio; the ensemble’s November 29, 2010 and May 31, 2011 concerts were each broadcast on CBC’s The Signal. Since 2003, Standing Wave has been an Ensemble in Residence at the UBC School of Music.
Selected Repertoire — Written for Standing Wave
Vincent Ho Sandman’s Dream (2016)
James O’Callaghan subject / object (2016)
Alfredo Santa Ana Seven for Six (2015)
Joel Balzun On Tablets of Human Hearts (2014)
François Houle Feuilles de sons (2014)
Michael Oesterle Emmy Noether (2014)
Leslie Uyeda Blue House (2013)**
AK Coope Old Time (2013)**
Bradshaw Pack Sidereal (2013)**
Peggy Lee Background Noise (2013)**
**movements from “Song Room Suite”
Edward Top Pots ‘n Pans Falling (2013)
Justin Christensen Critical Distance (2013)
Kati Agócs Crystallography (2012)
Daniel Janke Weather Coming (2012)
Marcus Goddard Raven Tales (2012)
John Korsrud Picture Waving, Stand Talking (2011)
Nicole Lizée Sculptress (2010)
Vern Griffiths Two Ring Circus (2010)
Bramwell Tovey The Mackenzie Plunge (2010)*
Veda Hille Vancouver Parks 1970-1982 (2010)*
Alfredo Santa Ana On the Bridge (2010)*
Martin Ritter Lynn Valley Mist (2010)*
Ron Samworth Garry Point (2010)*
Brent Belke Orange Grey (2010)*
*segments from “The Vancouver Suite”, music for Mina Shum’s film/theatre installation “All”
Rodney Sharman Pavane, Galliard, and Variations (2009/2010)
Giorgio Magnanensi aBK (2010)
Jocelyn Morlock Theft (2009)
Achim Kaufmann Faserungen (2009)
Arne Eigenfeldt The Title of Your Book (2008)
Cameron Wilson At the Hop (2008)
Jeffrey Ryan Burn (2008)
Jocelyn Morlock Writing in the Margins (2007)
Giorgio Magnanensi ethuiá VII (2007)
Bradshaw Pack palimpsest: Overture & Violin Solo, Theme & Song, O Misterium Ineffabile/ Arioso Distante
Howard Bashaw 10M-5P-17m (2005)
Gregory Lee Newsome in medias res (2005)
Linda Bouchard Liquid States (2004)
James Beckwith Maxwell Reflectere (2004)
Keith Hamel Adawura (2003)
Thierry Pécou Quelqu’un Parle au Tango (2003)
Chris Paul Harman Incipits (2003)
Jacqueline Leggatt by are in very nod (2003)
Bob Pritchard I/You Have Wounded My Heart (2002)
Giorgio Magnanensi Aila (2002)
André Ristic Environnements improvisés (2002)
John Korsrud Lather (2001)
David MacIntyre Intimate Letters (2001)
Bradshaw Pack palladia (2001)
Nikolai Korndorf Merry Music for Very Nice People (2001)
Peter Hannan your ghost: my machine (2000)
James Maxwell bodig-menen (2000)
Owen Underhill The Gaze (2000)
Peggy Lee Retracing (2000)
François Houle the abstract body abandons itself to light (2000)
Ron Samworth C’est ça (2000)
Bruce Mather Bourgueil (1999)
Michael Bushnell Cloud, Castle, Lake (1999)
William O. Smith 10 X 200 (1999)
James Maxwell forberen (1999)
Itamar Erez Ritornello I & III (1999)
Jacqueline Leggatt Raido (1999)
Bradshaw Pack Ellipsis (…) gleaning eidolons
Peter Hatch Music is a Beautiful Disease (1999)
Chris Miller a long wave (slow) and a tune (nebulous), standing (1999)
Brent Lee Ribbons of Visible Air (1998; revised 1999)
Serge Arcuri Waves (1998)
Jeremy Berkman Try, Try Again (1998)
François Houle Black Triangle (1998)
Doug Smith Music for Madeline (1998)
Bradshaw Pack the earth for you a Standing place (1997)
Paul Dolden The Frenzy of a Standing Wave (1997)
Stéphane Roy Inaccessible Azur (1997)
Tony Wilson Z, #10, For Chet Baker (1997)
Performed by Standing Wave:
Thomas Adès Catch
Kati Agócs Immutable Dreams
Louis Andreissen Workers Union
Georges Aperghis Graffitis; récitation 9; récitation 14
Sergio Barroso Crómicas de Ultrasueño
Bob Becker Prisoners of the Image Factory; Palta (arranged by David Carlisle)
Alan Bell Monashee: Three Lyrical Sketches
Alban Berg Adagio; Four Pieces Opus 5
Linda Bouchard Réciproque
Pierre Boulez Dérive
Tim Brady Circling; Double Helix; Three or four Days after the Death of Kurt Cobain
Anthony Braxton composition 148 (+1+105a+23c)
John Cage Nocturne
John Cage Bacchanale
John Cage Six Melodies
Elliot Carter Con Leggerezza Pensosa: Omaggio a Italo Calvino; Triple Duo
Brian Cherney Echoes in the Memory
Jeffrey Cotton Meditation, Rhapsody, and Bacchanale
George Crumb Dream Sequence; Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965
George Crumb Vox Balaenae
Brett Dean Sextet: Old Kings in Exile
Joël-François Durand la mesure des choses – 1 – la mesure de l’air
Egberto Gismonti Infancia
Gerard Grisey Solo pour deux; Vortex Temporum
Peter Hatch A Chopsticks Fantasy (Mildred’s Thoughts); When do they is not the same as why do they
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question (arranged by François Houle)
Alexina Louie Cadenzas
René Lussier Forever West, Toujours à l’Ouest
Missy Mazzoli Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos
Missy Mazzoli Still Life With Avalanche
Tristan Murail Feuilles a Travers les Cloches
Michael Oesterle l’effusione d’amicizia 4
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Thierry Pécou Nocturne
Steve Reich Pieces of Wood
Frederic Rzewski Coming Together
Kaija Saariaho Serenatas
Somei Satoh Toki no Mon (A Gate into Infinity)
Giacinto Scelsi The Piccolo Suite; Kho Lho
Salvatore Sciarrino Come vengona prodotti gli incantesima?
Salvatore Sciarrino Lo Spazio Inverso
Bent Sorensen The Deserted Churchyards
Toru Takemitsu Quatrain II
Sean Varah Slipping Image
Claude Vivier Paramirabo; Pulau Dewata
Ian Wilson Timelessly This
Iannis Xenakis Ikhoor