John Robertson
Canadian composer
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(Ernest) John Robertson (21 October 1943) is a New Zealand born Canadian composer of concert music. He received his preliminary musical educational as part of his schooling in New Zealand. Upon emigrating to Canada in 1967 he took a position in the general insurance business but in the mid 1970s he embarked on a course of private study in composition and counterpoint at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Dr Sam Dolin. In 1987 an entry in a composition competition won him a performance of his Variations for small orchestra Op 14, and since then his music has been heard in Canada, Australia, Mexico, the UK, Sweden and Bulgaria. In 2014 after some orchestral pieces of his were played in Ruse, Bulgaria, the Ruse State Opera asked him to write an opera and the one hour long "Orpheus" was staged there in June 2015 and is being revived in February and May 2016.
Personal life
He currently resides in Kingston, Ontario Canada
Shows
- Overture for a Musical Comedy (orchestra)
- Serenade in G (chamber orchestra)
- Autumn Ramble (chamber orchestra)
- Serenade for Strings
- Salome Dances (orchestra)
- Cyrano (orchestra)
- Symphony #1 (orchestra)
- Orpheus - A Masque (opera)