All Improvisers Welcome
Night Music happens almost every night of Sound Symposium XIX. You never know what you’ll hear:
These SSXIX Events Are Free
You can attend more than one-third of our Sound Symposium XIX happenings without spending a dime. That’s right, 25 events are free and open to the public. They include workshops, soundwalks, lectures, and some events that defy definition.
Jordan Nobles
Jordan Nobles has won numerous awards for his work including a JUNO Award for ‘Classical Composition of the Year’, a Western Canadian Music Award, the International Composition Competition of the Unbound Flute Festival (Brisbane, Australia July 2016); the Sacra/Profana (San Diego 2013), Vancouver Bach Choir (Vancouver 2008), and Polyphonos (Seattle 2011) International Composition Competitions. In […]
David Lee
Double bassist David Lee spent years in the Toronto music and art scene, playing bass and cello in a variety of settings. His long tenure with the influential improvising group Bill Smith Ensemble included the LPs Rastafari with Leo Smith, and Visitation with Joe McPhee. Also the author of books on jazz and other subjects, […]
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, an installation artist and a member of the American Indian arts collective Postcommodity. Chacon has presented his work in different contexts at Vancouver Art Gallery, La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Musica, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music […]
Jack Etchegary
Jack Etchegary, a St. John’s percussionist and composer, is currently completing his fourth year of music studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, pursuing a B.Mus. in composition. As a performer, Jack has been involved in several music festivals, has recorded and performed with St. John’s groups including Soap Opera, Property, Dame Nature, Mary Dear, and Kat […]
AE Bridger
AE Bridger is a songwriter and composer from St. John’s. The past few years have seen AE Bridger working with large ensembles of brass, reeds, and strings to stage concerts of original works everywhere from concert halls, to living rooms, to the steps of the LSPU Hall. Steeped in classic progressive rock and psychedelic pop, and […]
Michael Boyle
Michael Boyle is a native of Lavey in South Derry Ireland who now lives in St. John’s Newfoundland. He has a number of poems published in the “The Antigonish Review” and “Dalhousie Review.” In 2014 he won the Arts and Letters prize for poetry and his first poetry collection “Whins from the Back Hill” is […]
Delf Maria Hohmann
Delf Maria Hohmann sings and plays folk music mainly from North America, and relies on an impressive repertoire of traditional and contemporary songs, accompanying himself on guitar, banjo, dulcimer, concertina and autoharp. The songs in English, French, Yiddish, German, Inuktitut, and Cree tell the stories and concerns of immigrants, fishermen, lumberjacks, and natives.
Big Space
Since forming in 2013, Big Space has performed many sets at prominent music clubs in St. John’s, as well as the Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival, the Music at Harbourside series, and the Lawnya Vawnya festival. They have also been featured at the Sound Symposium and often host the Sound Symposium’s Night Music.