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Academically, I have received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of British Columbia following MusBac and MusM degrees from the University of Toronto.
As a composer, my works have been performed throughout North America and Europe and have been recorded on numerous compact discs under the CBC Musica Viva, CMC Centrediscs, Conaccord, CBC and Artifact labels.
In 1985, I founded Waterloo’s NUMUS Concerts and in 1998 created the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound.
From 1999-2003, I held the role of composer in residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and was Wilfrid Laurier University's university Research professor for 2006-2007.
My compositions are in many genres, from orchestral and chamber music to instrumental theatre, performance art, electroacoustics and installations. Some of my concert work incorporates theatrical and multi-media elements, reflecting my interest in extending traditional concert music performance practices.
I’m currently involved in writing for percussion and a theatre project based on the current trend towards algorithmithic stock market trading.
- Arts and Culture Consultant with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
- My street opera (with writer John Sobol) 'Myaudia: Return of the Pied People' premiered in the summer of 2010 in both Stratford, Ontario and the old port of Montreal.
- History is what it is.
- Gathered Evidence.
- Mildred’s Thoughts.
- Three Times (2013) for percussion quartet (Premiere July 25, 2013, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).
- Forest for the Trees (2013) for string quartet (Premiere November 15, 2013).
Contact Info:
Office location: A524
Languages spoken: English
Personal website:
http://web.wlu.ca/music/Hatch/index2.php