Thierry Tidrow
Thierry Tidrow is a Canadian composer currently living and working in Germany. Born in Ottawa, Thierry’s musical education began with choral and vocal music, followed by studies composition, music theory and early music performance at McGill University (B.Mus. 2009) with Christoph Neidhöfer and Brian Cherney. As a Fondation Ricard and Canada Arts Council Fellow, he received his Masters degree in composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2011 under Richard Ayres, an Advanced Studies diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 2013, under Brice Pauset, followed by masterclasses with Chaya Czernowin, Rebecca Saunders, and Ming Tsao.
Thierry has collaborated with many performers across Europe and North America, including the Asko-Schönberg Ensemble, the Bozzini String Quartet, Continuum Contemporary Music, Ensemble Garage, hand werk, LUX:NM, Ensemble Proton, the Talea Ensemble, Sarah Maria Sun, Johannes Fischer, Erik Bosgraaf, Brian Archinal, Heather Roche, and many others. He has been featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival, the Festival Radio-France de Montpellier, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Pluriversale (Akademie der Künste der Welt), New Talents Biennale Cologne, and the Zagreb Music Biennale.
Thierry has written four operas: Less Truth More Telling (2012, libretto by Matthew Ricketts), an investigation of the origin of evil, for the Dutch National Opera Academie; My Corporate Identity (2017, libretto by Uta Bierbaum), a tragicomic tale of modern-day existential meltdowns, for the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Prosthetics of Autonomy (2018, libretto by Franziska vom Heede), a sci-fi post-utopia about an android discovering her femininity and artificial intelligence by tapping into years of canonical male-gaze-y opera; and Nils Karlsson Däumling(2019, libretto by Manfred Weiß), a children's opera based on the Astrid Lindgren classic for soprano and violin written for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Other big-scale projects include Manifeste Assi (2015), a 60-minute chamber piece based on the poetry of Innu poets and political activists Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine and Joséphine Bacon.
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