Amy Brandon
Instructor - Applied Study / Composition
Email: am494495@dal.ca
Phone: 902.494.3772
Mailing Address:
- Composition
- Augmented reality and notation
- Motor learning and guitar performance
Education:
- BMus - Jazz Guitar Performance - Carleton University
- MA - Composition - University of Ottawa
- PhD (completing) - Interdisciplinary - Dalhousie University
Creative Activities
Composer and guitarist Amy Brandon's pieces have been described as “...gut wrenching and horrific” (Critipeg), and "otherworldly, a clashing of bleakness with beauty" (Minor Seventh). Her performances, installations and acoustic works have been presented at the Gaudeamus Festival (Screen Dive), National Sawdust (NYC), Trinity College (Dublin), the mise-en Festival, and the Winnipeg New Music Festival. She has received Canadian and international composition awards including the Leo Brouwer Guitar Composition Competition (Grand Prize 2019) and a JACK Quartet Studio Artist commission. In addition to performance and composition, she is completing an interdisciplinary PhD examining augmented reality, motor learning and guitar performance at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.