Mixed Signals
June 24th, 2026, Array Space
155 Walnut Ave, Toronto
Doors:7:30 pm | Show: 8:00pm
Tickets: $20 (arts/seniors/students), $25 (regular)
Join us June 24th at Arrayspace for the final concert of TENMC’s 2026 season!
Featuring thought provoking works for variable instrumentation and electronics by an all Canadian line up— Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Kotoka Suzuki, Nathan Petitpas, Nolan Hildebrand, Fjóla Evans and Rashaan Allwood—our program explores a variety of compelling compositional formats ranging from fixed media and electronics to live signal processing.Come out to Arrayspace for a fascinating evening of timbral and textural interplay!
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Programme
Kimia Koochakzadeh Yazdi - seeds ii - for cello and electronics (2024)
Nolan Hildebrand - Tripping In The Horror Vacui - for piano trio (2022)
Rashaan Allwood - Lover, arranged for Piano, Violin and electronics (2021)
Kotoka Suzuki - Utterance in Motion for clarinet/electronics/video (2018)
Nathan Petitpas - Fold/Warp for vibraphone, cymbals and live electronics (2025)
Fjóla Evans - Hyphae - for violin and electronics (2024)*
TENMC Performers
Amahl Arulanandm - Cello
Cheryl Duvall - Piano
Nathan Petitpas - Percussion
Aysel Taghi-Zada - Violin (Rashaan Allwood and Nolan Hildebrand)
Anthony Thompson - Clarinet
Ilana Waniuk - Violin (Fjóla Evans)
Justin Massey - Technical Director
*commissioned by Ilana Waniuk with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Our concert is made possible with generous support from The SOCAN Foundation
Featured Composers
Kotoka Suzuki
Kotoka Suzuki is a composer focusing on both instrumental and multimedia practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines. Her work reflects on life, breath and wind and often conceives of sounds as a physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of composition.
Her work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, and Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany), at numerous venues and broadcasts such as Deutschland Radio, BBC Radio3, Lucerne, Ultraschall, ISCM World Music Days, The Stone, Royal College of Music Stockholm, ZKM Media Museum, and Music at the Anthology. Her awards and honors include DAAD Berlin Artists in Residence Program, Global Music Awards Gold Medal, Fleck Fellowship (Banff Centre), New Music USA, Bourges First Prize in Multimedia, Musica Nova First Prize (Czech Republic), Howard Foundation Fellowship, and Robert Fleming Prize (Canada Council for the Arts). She has held residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Ucross and ZKM.
Suzuki taught at the University of Chicago and Arizona State University and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Music. Her work is published on Starkland, Edition RZ, Edition DEGEM, EMF Media, and IMEB records. She is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001.
Nolan Hildebrand
Nolan Hildebrand is a composer and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. He composes electroacoustic, instrumental, and acousmatic music, and performs in his solo noise project, BLACK GALAXIE. His work synthesizes noise music with contemporary composition practices to create music that is intense, colorful, and viscerally engaging. This synthesis manifests sonically through saturation, excess, and physicality, often with a touch of playfulness and absurdity. His creative output integrates chaotic feedback networks, open graphic scores, spatialized sound, computer-assisted composition, and interactive systems. Nolan’s music has been performed at major festivals around the world including Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), International Computer Music Conference (China), Forum Wallis (Switzerland), reMusik (Russia), Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (USA), and rainy days festival (Luxembourg). He has worked with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, ECM+ Ensemble, MolOt Ensemble, United Instruments of Lucilin, Quatour Bozzini, XelmYa Ensemble, Jonny Axelsson, Nick Photinos, and has participated in masterclasses with Panayiotis Kokoras, Stefan Prins, Ana Sokolovic, and Malin Bång. His research has been published in Organised Sound, the International Computer Music Conference proceedings, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference proceedings, and the Korean Electro Acoustic Music Society’s Annual Conference proceedings.
Fjóla Evans
Fjóla Evans is a Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist. Her work explores the visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural phenomena. Commissions and performances have come from musicians such as eighth blackbird, the Aizuri Quartet, and the Residentie Orkest of the Netherlands. Her work has been featured on the MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Gaudeamus Music Week, and the Cello Biennale Amsterdam 2020. Fjóla holds a doctorate in composition from Columbia University where her research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recent and upcoming projects include Hraunflæði: a new work for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Íslenzk Ferðaflóra: a song cycle for Dúplum duo based on a taxonomy of Icelandic plant life, the release of violinist Maiani da Silva’s recording of Bloom on Sono Luminus, the score for Clement Virgo’s film Steal Away which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the German premiere—as performed by Ensemble Sjaella, Leipzig Ballett, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra—of Varð henni ljóð á munni: a piece for vocal sextet and chamber orchestra inspired by the women of the Icelandic sagas.
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is an Iranian composer and performer. She writes for hybrid instrumental/electronic ensembles, creates electroacoustic and audiovisual works, builds instruments, and performs electronic music. She explores the unfamiliar familiar while being motivated by how melodies unfold through time; finding ways to play with various musical thresholds and exploring musical extremes is something that she is currently attracted to. Her work experiments with merging Iranian music with the more contemporary classical music aesthetics.
Being a cross-disciplinary artist, she has actively collaborated on projects evolving around dance, film, and theater. She is the co-founder and producer of Fashion x Electronics, a collective focused on creating interdisciplinary works based on fashion and electronic music.
Kimia’s work has been showcased by organizations across the globe and her work has been performed internationally at festivals including Ars Electronica, Festival Ecos Urbanos, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Sonic Matter Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Sound and Music Conference, and Modulus Festival, among others.
She holds a BFA in Music Composition from Simon Fraser University’s Interdisciplinary School for the Contemporary Arts. Kimia is currently based in San Francisco and is a doctorate candidate in Music Composition at Stanford University.