Trevor Grahl is a Canadian

Canada

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 composer

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 and organist

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Trevor Grahl is winner of the McGill

McGill University

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-CBC

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 composition competition and of the Young Composers' Meeting in Apeldoorn 2010. Grahl's works include Le violon extraordinaire de Fifi Labranche (2005), Urquitaqtuq (2007), Symphony No. 1 (1999–2000) and The Village Blacksmith (2003) on a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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. His works have been performed by the de ereprijs orchestra, the Deep River Symphony Orchestra, the Valley Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Luke Fowlie and the McGill Wind Symphony among others.

Grahl received his Master in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

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 in 2009. Grahl currently resides in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, where he attends the Conservatory of Amsterdam in the school's Composition Masters Program.