Winnipeg new music's GroundSwell presents 'Electric Breath' Wednesday night. It features Montreal composer/hyper-flutist Cléo Palacio-Quintin who'll perform a number of Winnipeg premieres--one of which is written by Sunabacka. Both Karen and Cléo were Sarah Jo's guests in the Diamond Lane. Watch it here!

 

 

Karen Sunabacka’s music has been performed in Canada, the USA, Brazil and the United Kingdom. In 2013 the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra commissioned and premiered two works: Never to Return, a piece about Karen’s great-great Grandmother Mathilda who suffered from mental illness and Born by the River, a piece about her Métis Grandmother Lenore Clouston.

Some other ensembles and organisations who have premiered Karen’s works include Groundswell, the Empyrean Ensemble (California), the Brandon Chamber Players, the Left Coast Ensemble (San Francisco), Agassiz Chamber Players, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (reading session) conducted by Maestro Bramwell Tovey.

Karen won the Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region, Emerging Composers Competition in February 2009 with her orchestral composition And There Was A Great Calm.

She is Vice-President of the board of GroundSwell and she is the guest curator for Wednesday night's concert.

Electric Breath:
Wednesday, February 24 @ 8pm
Cinematheque
Artspace Building, 100 Arthur St.

 

 

On March 8th, 7:30 PM Karen will be giving a special talk entitled Composing our Stories: Inspired by Family and the Prairies. This is presented as part of the McNally Robinson ongoing Meet the Composer series. For more information, go HERE.