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Biographical NoteAlastair Boyd was born in 1957 in Gloucester, England, but has lived in Canada since the age of 10. He began writing music and winning composition prizes while in high school in Ottawa. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in music in 1980 from the University of Toronto, where he studied composition with Oscar Morawetz, Derek Holman and Lothar Klein. In 1980-81 he also studied with composers Francis Shaw and Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music in London, England. As a pianist he has been a student of Patricia Parr at the University of Toronto (1976-78) and Jean-Paul Sevilla (in Aix-en-Provence and Ottawa, 1974-75). He now lives and works in Toronto. He has worked as teacher, arranger, music copyist, and accompanist. Since 1988 he has also worked as a music cataloguer, for the Music Library at the University of Toronto, and elsewhere. His music has been performed in this country and in England, and has been broadcast on the CBC’s Two New Hours and In Performance. His orchestral work Reflexions was chosen as one of the finalists in the 1998 Winnipeg Symphony Canadian Composers Competition, and was performed as part of that year's Winnipeg Symphony New Music Festival. His choral work A Hymn on the Nativity to words by Ben Jonson won the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir's 2020 Debbie Fleming Prize in Choral Composition. From 1988 to 2003 Alastair was associated with the Toronto-based new music group Continuum Contemporary Music.
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