Michael S. Horwood

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Composer

As a composer of classical concert music, Michael S. Horwood has created over seventy original musical compositions in a great variety of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic combinations. Each piece in Horwood's current catalogue of complete works is fully documented on this website, along with program notes, all known performances, instrumentation, durations, reviews, sound clips and available recordings.

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Toronto pianist, Mary Kenedi, will be performing Broken Chords on April 22 in the Canadian Embassy in Prague, and on the 30th in the Canadian Embassy in Budapest. (Apr. 9, 2008)
Horwood's CD Suite and Serious receives an excellent review on allmusic.com. (Jan. 29, 2008)
Five works for percussion were brilliantly recorded in Toronto on Dec. 10-12 at York University by the Toronto Percussion Ensemble for an upcoming CD containing all of Horwood's music for percussion. Ray Dillard (manager and recording director for NEXUS) and Michael Horwood were the recording supervisors. The works recorded include Dynamite, Piece Percussionique No. 1, Piece Percussionique No. 5, Fragments and The Shadow of Your Drum. (Dec. 12, 2007)
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Michael Horwood is a member of or affiliated with the Canadian Music Centre (associate composer), the Canadian League of Composers, the Edmonton Composers' Concert Society, SOCAN (performing rights) and SODRAC (mechanical rights).
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