Rodney Sharman lives on traditional Musqueam territory in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Victoria Symphony's Composer-Mentor-in-Residence, and has been Composer-in-Residence of Early Music Vancouver’s “New Music for Old Instruments”, the Victoria Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and Composer-Host of Calgary Philharmonic’s Festival, "Hear and Now". In addition to concert music, Sharman writes for cabaret, opera and dance. He sings, conducts, plays recorders and flutes. Sharman was awarded First Prize in the CBC Competition for Young Composers, Kranichsteiner Music Prize (Darmstadt), Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto), and the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. www.rodneysharman.com 

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Rodney Sharman lives on traditional Musqueam territory in Vancouver, Canada. He teaches composition at the Vancouver Symphony School of Music, and is the Victoria Symphony’s Mentor-Composer. He has been Composer-in-Residence of Early Music Vancouver’s “New Music for Old Instruments”, the Victoria Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Composer-Host of the Calgary Philharmonic’s New Music Festival, "Hear and Now". In addition to concert music, Sharman writes music for cabaret, opera and dance. He sings, conducts, plays recorders and flutes. He works regularly with choreographer James Kudelka, for whom he has written scores for Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and Citadel & Compagnie (Toronto). His chamber opera, Elsewhereless, with text and direction by Atom Egoyan, was staged in Toronto, Vancouver, and Ottawa, and performed in concert excerpts in Amsterdam, New York City, Montreal, Victoria, and Rome. Sharman was awarded First Prize in the 1984 CBC Competition for Young Composers, the 1990 Kranichsteiner Prize in Music (Darmstadt, Germany), the 2013 Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding sound design/composition (Toronto), and is the recipient of the 2017 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Website: www.rodneysharman.com

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“Rodney Sharman is the most distinguished Canadian composer of his generation.” - Louis Andriessen

“Sharman’s commissioned work starts with a pulsing cloud of shard-like harmonics and triangle strokes, then settles into a complex interplay of ideas and textures; a shorter asymmetrically complementary movement is all ritualistic gestures and their sonic afterimages… I can’t seem to conjure up a single timbral ancestor for the Sharman: it seemed to me that Sharman’s piece manages to consistently create sound combinations that are both new and fiercely beautiful… But here was a major work from a composer in his prime, conceived with a minimum of pre-conditions. The results are telling. More power to the Turning Point for brokering a project that encouraged excellence; more kudos to Sharman for an edgy personal best.”

- David Gordon Duke, Vancouver Sun, Review of Turning Point’s premiere ofRodney Sharman’s Chamber Symphony

“The Garden”, a 2001 work by Rodney Sharman, with text by Peter Eliot Weiss about a young man’s first visit to a gay club and his explicit memories of early experiences, is a dramatic and at times rhapsodic score with an almost operatic sensibility.”

- Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, Review of Anthony de Mare’s “Unities”, Lincoln Centre

“Sharman should, in the Japanese fashion, be declared a national living treasure.”

- John Stape, reviewvancouver