What's On Upcoming Events: 2024 / 2025

Tarik O’Regan: On Composition and Process

Soundstreams Workshop

Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Emerging Composers Program week presents this free workshop.

Join composer and Soundstreams Emerging Composers Program mentor-in-residence Tarik O’Regan for a presentation and Q&A exploring his journey as a composer. Discover insights into his creative process, key works, and the experiences that have shaped his development.

This event will run from 2:00pm – 3:30pm and is open to the public to attend in-person or online via livestreams. We ask that you please register in advance to attend this workshop.
Make sure to select your attendance type when registering for the event. Livestream links will be shared with registrants the day of the event.

Tarik Hamilton O’Regan is a London-born composer based in San Francisco. In recent years much of his work has investigated and been influenced by his dual Arab and Irish heritages.

24/25 sees performances in many parts of the world, including at Deutsche Opera Berlin, the Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, Soundstreams in Toronto, and by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Vancouver Chamber Choir among others. Also, this season, his writing is featured on the longstanding BBC Radio series, The Essay, and he will be awarded the prestigious Yaddo Artist Medal at a ceremony in New York City.

Tarik’s output, recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations and two Ivors®, has been recorded on over 47 albums, and is published exclusively by Novello. He maintains a longstanding commitment to education and service to the arts in general. This has been acknowledged by his election to an Honorary Fellowship of Pembroke College, Oxford, and his inclusion in the Washington Post’s 2022 list of creative artists who are “changing the classical landscape.”

In 2023 he was awarded the Coronation Medal by His Majesty King Charles III for his Agnus Dei, commissioned for the Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey. Most recently Oratorio of Hope, a project which O’Regan helped devise, was nominated for a 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Award, and the commissioning of his Requiem for the Estranged received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) ahead of its premiere in 2025.

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