John Mark Sherlock

2009

• Works one more day in the empire and utopianism released by new fangled album records on imperial noise and utopianism, respectively

2008

• Work Republic of Canada premièred in New York
  

2007

• Concert by ensemble KORE, Montreal, dedicated solely to his works.

• Re-organized 3-day mini-festival of composer-performed concerts, (failure), bringing together participants from Toronto, Montreal and Victoria; work insuficiencia performed

2006

• Music for Redshift New Music, Vancouver

2005

• Re-organized 3-day mini-festival of composer-performed concerts, obscurity, bringing together participants from Toronto, Montreal and Victoria; work salvage/wrecking performed

• Dance work for choreographer Shannon Cooney; Dancemakers

2004

• Included in a special issue of Maclean’s Magazine entitled Maclean’s 100 Leaders and Dreamers: Canada’s Greatest Innovators and How They Changed the World, page 138.

• Dance works for choreographers Heidi Strauss; Barbara Lindenberg

• Interview with Christian Wolff to be published in an upcoming issue of Musicworks Magazine

2003

• Organized 3-day mini-festival of composer-performed concerts, inconsequence, bringing together participants from Toronto, Montreal and Victoria; works final approach and pageant performed

• Laidlaw Foundation Commissioned work with grace premièred by Eve Egoyan; pageant performed with Linda Smith and the composer

• Dance works for Guillaume Bernardi and Gerry Trentham

2002

• Formed collective neither/nor with eldritch Priest

• Received Chalmers Grant for mentored work with composer Linda Smith and choreographer Sylvain Émard resulting in piece (life’s rich) pageant

• 17, 11, 33 performed with eldritch Priest for the Rat-Drifting series

• NUMUS/Penderecki String Quartet performance of OAC commissioned work for Licia Mariaelisa Teresa Donadonibus premièred at Open Ears Music Festival

2001

• Dance works for Heidi Strauss (Glass Orchestra) and Alan Kaeja

• Works belladonna and Rose Madder performed

• necklace included on Arraymusic’s 25 Miniatures CD

2000

• unrequited premièred by Arraymusic

• Commissioned work possibly you three premièred by Ergo Ensemble

1999

• Work belladonna for Critical Band premièred at Microstock, Los Angeles

• Participated in John Cage’s Wintermusic as part of New Music Concerts’ Piano Day

1998

• Cataloged primary materials for the Stefan Wolpe Archive

• Work All Saints, Still premièred by the Burdocks ensemble

• Works tattoo and necklace used by choreographer Marie-Josée Chartier

• Business/Circulation Manager of Musicworks, an internationally circulating journal dedicated to experimental music

1997

• Contributed piece necklace for Arraymusic’s 25th Anniversary concert of miniatures, May 4 at the Première Dance Theatre

• Article on the Spanish/German composer Maria de Alvear published in Musicworks

• Work lilac aubergine used by choreographer Marie-Josée Chartier

1996

• Won Pierre Mercure Award-Third Prize in the SOCAN Awards for Young Composers for the piece lilac aubergine

• lilac aubergine premièred May 18th, 1996 at the Music Gallery, Toronto

• stainless for Linda C. Smith and Rick Sacks premièred June 22nd, 1996 at the Music Gallery by Stephen Clarke and Richard Moore

1995

• Wrote work lilac aubergine

1994

• Participant in Arraymusic’s Young Composers Workshop producing work tattoo
  

• Moved to Toronto

• Joined SOCAN

1988-1994
University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Master of Music (Composition)
Bachelor of Music (Theory and Composition)

• Studied composition with Jack Behrens, Arsenio Giron and David Myska

• Tutorial Assistant -harmony and voice-leading

• Lindsay Memorial Scholarship

• Creator and co-host of Beautiful Flux -a two-hour, weekly, new music radio programme on CHRW 94.7 FM

• Participated in the Canadian première of John Cage’s Europera 5