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  • Performance: A New Year’s Tale [a.k.a., Nar and the Snowman] (large chamber ensemble with narrator and projected images), performed by the Winnipeg Chamber Winds Collective, directed by Jacquie Dawson; featuring Victoria Sparks, soloist (narration/percussion); Gordon Fitzell, live video. Lord Selkirk School, Selkirk, MB. February 10, 2025.

  • Performance: A New Year’s Tale [a.k.a., Nar and the Snowman] (large chamber ensemble with narrator and projected images), premiere performance of the French-language version by the Winnipeg Chamber Winds Collective, directed by Jacquie Dawson; featuring Victoria Sparks, soloist (narration/percussion); Gordon Fitzell, live video. (Original language: Korean; followed by English, now French.) Saint Laurent School, Saint Laurent, MB. February 3, 2025.

  • Performance: A New Year’s Tale [a.k.a., Nar and the Snowman] (large chamber ensemble with narrator and projected images), performed by the Winnipeg Chamber Winds Collective, directed by Jacquie Dawson; featuring Victoria Sparks, soloist (narration/percussion); Gordon Fitzell, live video. Desautels Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB, January 31, 2025.

  • Performance: data_scape (open instrumentation with electronics; film by Myriam Boucher), performed by the Brandon University New Music Ensemble. Brandon University New Music Festival. Lorne Watson Recital Hall, Brandon University, Brandon, MB. January 29, 2025. Details

  • Performance: Mandala (open multimedia work for soloist and live audio-visual electronics), performed by percussionist Victoria Sparks. Brandon University New Music Festival. Lorne Watson Recital Hall, Brandon University, Brandon, MB. January 28, 2025. Details

  • Performance: Sleight of Hand (string quartet and 8-channel electronics), performed by the Stenhammar Quartet (Stockholm); Gordon Fitzell, electronics. GroundSwell Concert Series, Richardson Auditorium, WAG-Qaumajuq. Winnipeg, MB. November 4, 2024. Details

  • Performance: Sleight of Hand (string quartet and 8-channel electronics), premiered by the Stenhammar Quartet (Stockholm); Gordon Fitzell, electronics. Live@CIRMMT, Montreal, QC. November 1, 2024. Details

  • Digital installation: Organum (8-channel audiovisual augmented reality work). Commissioned by and featuring manipulated recordings of the choir Polycoro, Organum constitutes one part the multi-artist collaborative installation TouchGrass, designed and produced by Zohreh Gervais and realized by developer/programmer Amy Brandon for Winnipeg’s Cluster Festival. Original installation site: Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park (June 2022). Site: University of Manitoba Homecoming Gala, exterior entrance to the Desautels Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB. September 18, 2024. Details

  • Performance: Free improvisatory performance with Jean-François Charles (a.k.a., Spectral DJ), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. March 15, 2024.

  • Performance: A New Year’s Tale [a.k.a., Nar and the Snowman] (large chamber ensemble with narrator and projected images), premiere performance of the English-language version by the Winnipeg Chamber Winds Collective, directed by Jacquie Dawson; featuring Victoria Sparks, soloist (narration/percussion); Gordon Fitzell, live video. (Original language: Korean.) Resound: Ex Camera, part of the Winnipeg New Music Festival Community Performance Series. Richardson Auditorium, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, MB. January 29, 2024. Details

  • Audiovisual recording: Lotus Mudra (a sonic meditation for improvising musician(s), with optional live electronics). Premiere video recording by Revolution Ensemble. Montreal, QC. 2022–24. Details

  • Symposium presentation: Invited talk at a symposium honouring the renowned educator and music theorist Dr. John Roeder. Workshops in Music Theory Pedagogy Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. June 24–30, 2023. Details

  • Performance: Improvised music @ 8EAST with Dory Hayley (voice), John Korsrud (trumpet), Isaac Zee (violin, electronics), Gordon Fitzell (electronics), Lisa Cay Miller (piano), and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa (piano). Presented by 8EAST and NOW Society. 8EAST, Vancouver, BC. June 22, 2023. Details

  • Performance: Entropy (piano ten hands, amplified; projected images). Performed by Standing Wave Ensemble at The Annex, Vancouver, BC. May 8, 2023. Details

  • Performance: Live video mixing for a multimedia performance of Bloody Jack, a song cycle by Michael Matthews; text by Dennis Cooley. Performed by soprano Dawn Bruch-Wiens and pianist Laura Loewen, with imagery by filmmaker Aidan Ritchie and composer/photographer Michael Matthews. GroundSwell concert series, WAG-Qaumajuq, Richardson Auditorium, Winnipeg, MB. April 27, 2023. Details

  • Performance: Mandala (open multimedia work for soloist and live audio-visual electronics). Performed by percussionist Victoria Sparks (Winnipeg) at the Winnipeg New Music Festival Community Performance Series Re-Sound: Seen and Unseen, Richardson Auditorium, WAG-Qaumajuq. Winnipeg, MB. January 30, 2023. Details

  • Performance: data_scape (open multimedia work for soloist or ensemble on any instrument(s), with variable electronics and video (video by Myriam Boucher). Performed by Duo D’Entre-Deux (saxophones, tubes, handheld electronics), Myriam Boucher (video electronics), and Gordon Fitzell (audio electronics). GroundSwell concert series, Winnipeg, MB. November 29, 2022.
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  • Performance: Deus ex Machina: The Nine Lives of Schrödinger’s Cat (amplified instrumental sextet with electronics). Performed by Standing Wave Ensemble. New Music Concerts, Toronto, ON. November 20, 2022.
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  • Performance: Ai Weiwei: On Poetry (for prepared piano, toy piano, battery-powered electronics and voice). Performed by Megumi Masaki. GroundSwell concert series, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, MB. November 17, 2022.
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  • Performance: Deus ex Machina: The Nine Lives of Schrödinger’s Cat (amplified instrumental sextet with electronics). Performed by Standing Wave Ensemble. GroundSwell concert series, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, MB. October 18, 2022.
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  • Digital installation: Organum + Gabrielassus (8-channel audiovisual augmented reality work). Commissioned by and featuring manipulated recordings of the choir Polycoro, the piece constitutes one part the multi-artist collaborative installation TouchGrass, designed and produced by Zohreh Gervais and realized by developer/programmer Amy Brandon for Winnipeg’s Cluster Festival. Site: Leo Mol Sculpture Garden at Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, MB. June 2022.
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  • Performance: Deus ex Machina: The Nine Lives of Schrödinger’s Cat (amplified instrumental sextet with electronics). Video performance (due to COVID-19) by Aventa Ensemble. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. January 12, 2022.
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