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Keith Hamel is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and computer.

Education

Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 1981), and A.M. and Ph.D degrees from Harvard University (1984, 1985). Between 1981 and 1984, he also studied Computer Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Barry Vercoe

Barry Vercoe

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. Hamel also received composition instruction from Istvan Anhalt

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. He was a finalist in the 1986 CBC Young Composers Competition (percussion category), and also received four awards in the P.R.O. Canada Young Composers Competition.

Career

Dr. Hamel has been on the Faculty at the UBC School of Music since 1987, and has been a Full Professor since 1997. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), a Researcher at the Media Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and is Director of the UBC Computer Music Studio.

Keith Hamel has been a visiting lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook, Queen's University, the University of Western Ontario, Simon Fraser University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, the University of Santa Barbara, the University of Washington School of Music, York University, IRCAM and several other academic institutions.

List of Works

ORCHESTRA AND LARGE ENSEMBLE

Quadrivium for Orchestra (1983) (15 min.)
Paraphrases for Chamber Orchestra (1993) (8 min.).
Overdrive for Orchestra (1998) (10 min.).
"Wizard" for Chamber Orchestra (2010) (5 min.)

CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

Obsessions 1 for Chamber Sextet (1984) (17 min.)
Obsessions 2 for String Quartet (1985) (17 min.)
Paraphrases for Fl., Cl., Horn, Fortepiano, Timpani, Violin and Cello (1990) (8 min.)
Refraction for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1991) (10 min.)
Each Life Converges To Some Centre... for Violin and Piano (1992) (7 min.)
Crossfade for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Piano and Percussion (1994) (3 min.)
Wings of Mercury (1997) for Fl., Ob., Cl., Perc., Pno., Vn., Vc. and D.B. (12 min.)
Kolokochiki for Two Piano and Two Percussion (2002) (12 min.)
Adawura for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion (2003) (12 min.)

CHAMBER ENSEMBLE WITH INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Land Of Shades for 6 Singers and Computer Generated Tape (1982) (9 min.)
Obsessions III for Tape and Chamber Ensemble (1987) (10 min.)
Ca-Non for Flute/Alto Flute, MIDI Piano, Percussion and Interactive Electronics
Faded Memories, Faded Jeans for Cl., Vc., MIDI Piano and Perc.. (1995) (20 min.)
Off-ramp for Elec. Gtr, Chamber Ens. and Interactive Electronics (2007) (14 min.)

SOLO INSTRUMENTS WITH INTERACTIVE ELECTRONICS

Symposium II for Perc. and Computer Tape (1985 - revised from 1992)
Thrust for MIDI Grand Piano and Electronics (1989) (18 min.)
WindoW for Alto Saxophone and Interactive Electronics (1990) (12 min.)
Obsessed Again... for Bassoon and Interactive Electronics (1992) (15 min.)
Traces (1995) for Clarinet and Interactive Electronics.
Krishna’s Flute (2004) for Flute and Interactive Electronics (15 min.)

VOCAL AND CHORAL

Salem, 1692 for Women's Choir (1993) (10 min.)
Lullaby (1999) for Women's Choir (5 min.).
deep in the heart is where we are one for Choir (2002) (7 min.)
Her Eyes in Sleep (2005) for ATTB (3 min.)

Selected Performers

Ensemble Contemporain, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Ensemble, Elektra Women's Choir, ARRAYMUSIC, New Music Concerts, musica intima, Hammerhead Consort, Standing Wave, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Robert Silverman, Robert Cram, Robert Aitken, Chenoa Anderson, Mark McGregor, Paolo Bartolussi, Jesse Read, Jean-Guy Boisvert, Julia Nolan, Douglas Finch and François Houle.

Affiliations

Vice President, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) (2003–2007)
President, Canadian Music Centre (2002–2006)
Board Member, Canadian League of Composers (1995–2005)
Published by Editions Musicales Européenes (Paris), Cypress Editions (Vancouver)
Keith Hamel is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.

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Software Development

Notewriter music notation software (1988–2007)

NoteAbility Pro music notation software (1996–present)

UBC Toolbox Processing modules for Max/MSP (2005–present)

IMuSE, the Integrated Multimodal Score-following Environment.

Notable Students

Hamel has been principal supervisor of several students who have proceeded to professional careers in music. These include: Bob Pritchard, David R. Scott, Gordon Fitzell, Brent Lee

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External links

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