Andrew Staniland
Professor
Composition, electronic music
Member of the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
B.Mus. (Lethbridge)
M.Mus. (Toronto)
Mus. Doc. (Toronto)
astaniland@mun.ca
Room: MU-2010
(709) 864-7995
Described as a 鈥渘ew music visionary鈥 (National Arts Centre), composer Andrew Staniland has established himself as one of Canada鈥檚 most important and innovative musical voices. His music is performed and broadcast internationally and has been described by Alex Ross in the New Yorker Magazine as 鈥渁lternately beautiful and terrifying鈥. Among other accolades, Andrew is the recipient of two Juno nominations for Dark Star Requiem in 2017, was awarded the Terra Nova Young Innovators Award in 2016, was the National Grand Prize winner of EVOLUTION (presented in 2009 by CBC Radio 2/Espace Musique and The Banff Centre), and was the recipient of the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music in 2004. As a leading composer of his generation, Andrew has been recognized by election to the Inaugural Cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Royal Society of Canada.
Andrew was an Affiliate Composer to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (2006-09) and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2002鈥04), and has also been in residence at the Centre du Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (Paris, 2005). Recent commissioners include the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Andrew also performs as a guitarist and with new media (computers and electronics).
Andrew is currently on faculty at 糖心视频 University in St John鈥檚 Newfoundland, where he founded MEARL (糖心视频 ElectroAcoustic Research Lab). At MEARL, Andrew leads a cross-disciplinary research team that has produced the innovative Mune digital instrument: .