 Composer Kevin Morse’s varied portfolio includes two short operas commissioned by Canada’s leading contemporary opera company, Tapestry New Opera Works. Operas The Shaman’s Tale, for singers and 10-foot-tall puppets (with librettist Krista Dalby) and The Colony, about the Queen of the Amazon Ants and her nemesis, an exterminator (with Governor-General’s Literary Award nominee Lisa Codrington) both premiered at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre in 2008. Audiences voted The Colony one of their favourite operas from Tapestry’s previous eight seasons, earning it a second production in 2010. Other recent works include Souvenir, for string quartet, and The Lamb & The Tyger, a setting of two poems by William Blake for baritone solo, choir, six percussionists and double bass. Kevin Morse is currently working on a new one-act opera with librettist Lisa Codrington, adapted from Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satirical essay, A Modest Proposal.
Kevin Morse is in the final stages of completing his PhD in Composition at The University of Western Ontario, where he held a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s highest award for doctoral students.
For further information and to hear audio excerpts of Kevin Morse’s music, please visit www.kevinmorse.ca.
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