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Recently I have been busy doing audio programming. I am running a blog on my work in this area here:
http://christianfloisand.wordpress.com .
Please visit this blog site for more information (and some pretty cool stuff!).

Christian Floisand (b. 1979) is a Canadian composer of multimedia and contemporary concert music. He graduated with a M.Mus degree in composition from the University of Toronto in 2009 where he studied with Chan Ka Nin and Alexander Rapoport. He also holds a B.Mus degree in composition (2007) and a B.Sc degree in computer science (2004) from the University of Calgary. In Calgary, his composition teachers included Allan Bell and David Eagle.

Christian has had music read by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Land’s End Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, and the University of Calgary Orchestra. He has had performances by both Ensemble Resonance and the TorQ Percussion Quartet. In April 2007 he was a finalist in the Land’s End Chamber Ensemble Composers Competition with the Ballade for String Trio, and took part in an interview on CBC Radio who also broadcast the work as part of the competition.

In the Fall of 2009 Christian was thrilled to join the Toy Piano Composers, a group that was founded the previous year by friends and colleagues from the University of Toronto. This composers' collective puts on about three concerts a year of diverse and eclectic music of which all have been tremendously popular with the audience.

Furthermore, Christian had the great fortune to participate in the 2010 Guild of Canadian Film Composers Match-up program in which four composers collaborated with directors from the Canadian Film Centre in scoring their short films. The music was recorded and mixed at the Glenn Gould Studio with players from the Glenn Gould School and later screened at The Royal. He has also collaborated with a number of animators from Sheridan College in writing music for their animated short films and has also recently been working on sound effects and music for an indie video game called Steel Storm. He currently lives in Toronto.

C.V.

Education

1. University of Toronto, 2007—2009, M.Mus in Composition
2. University of Calgary, 2004—2007, B.Mus in Composition (with distinction)
3. University of Calgary, 1998—2004, B.Sc in Computer Science

Employment

1. Freelance, 2010—present, Composer & Sound Designer for media
2. Self Employed, 2010—present, Music Theory Tutor
3. Starbucks Coffee, 2011—present, Barista
4. University of Toronto, 2007—2009, Teaching Assistant in Music
5. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 2008, Box Office Seller
6. Irene Besse Academy of Music, 2004—2007, Piano/Theory teacher
7. EB Games Canada, 2002—2004, Sales Associate
8. Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, 1999—2001, Head Usher

Volunteering

1. Musicworks Magazine, Nov 2010—Feb 2011
2. Toronto Summer Music Festival, July—Aug 2010
3. Bravo School of Music, April 2010, Helped teach a music workshop for teens
4. Indie Pool, Feb—Mar 2010, Internship

Awards

• Creative Achievement Award from the Faculty of Music, University of Calgary
• Jason Lang Scholarship for academic achievement, University of Calgary
• Alexander Rutherford Scholarship, Henry Wise Wood High School

Skills

• Knowledge in a variety of music sequencing, notation, and sampling software, including:
  • Cubase,
  • Logic,
  • Audacity,
  • Adobe Audition,
  • FMOD,
  • Wwise,
  • UDK,
  • Digital Performer,
  • Garage Band,
  • Finale,
  • Max/MSP,
  • Kontakt,
  • Garritan Personal Orchestra,
  • Vienna Symphonic Library
• Knowledge with both Mac OS X and PC platforms
• Programming knowledge in C/C++, Python
• Experience in teaching with great ability to effectively communicate ideas to students
• Very organized, detail oriented, independent, and hard working

Membership/Associations

• Toy Piano Composers
• SOCAN
• Guild of Canadian Film Composers
• Game Audio Network Guild

Music & Sound

Sound Design Replacement Demo (2012) Sound Design Replacement Demo (2011) FMOD Adaptive Ambience Demo (2011) Sound Design Replacement Demo (2010)
Multimedia	Demos
Steel Storm (2010-2011); video game by Kot-in-Action Composer and Sound Designer, with Igor Correia Main Themeplay Desert Environment Musicplay Industrial City Environment Musicplay Sky City & Windmill Environment Musicplay Flying Fortress Environment Musicplay Hive Environment Musicplay People Garden (2010, GCFC Match-up Program); film by Nadia Litz Title Cueplay Summer Vacation (2009); film by Casey Kirkpatrick Scoreplay Creatures of the Night (2009); film by Kieran McKay Scoreplay The Report (2009); film by Gustavo Cerquera Scoreplay	Taking Flightplay Midori: Main Theme (unfinished game)play Midori: Ice Level (unfinished game)play Dreamscapeplay Imaginingplay I <3 Music Beatsplay Alpha Wolfe: Title (short film)play
Concert Works The Crossword (2012); Opera scene for mezzo-soprano, baritone, pianoplay watch on YouTube Wishful Land (2011); Electric guitar quartetplay Fractured (2011); Melodica, Piano, Acoustic Tableplay Three Fantastical Things (2011); percussion quartet I. Marionette play II. Snowglobe play III. Kaleidoscope play Poemography (2010); flute, clarinet, violin, cello, pianoplay A Wayfarer’s Journal (2009); orchestra Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2009); mezzo soprano, violin, piano play Pictures of a Traveling Gnome (2009); percussion ensemble I. Allegretto II. Tranquil play III. Allegretto IV. Elegy: Allegro play A Dream of Utopia (2008); 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba Justorum Animae (2008); SAT choir Lullaby (2008); violin, celesta or piano play Ballade for String Trio (2008); violin, viola, cello play Odus Ku (2007); violin, bass clarinet, piano I. Rumination: Largo sostenuto play II. Scherzo: Allegretto giocoso play Phantom Lights (2007); clarinet Suite for Piano (2007); piano I. Prelude II. Invention III. Minuet play IV. Fugue Prelude (2006); piano play Variations on a Kite (2006); flute, oboe, clarinet I. The Little Kite II. The Kite of Moderate Size III. The Big Kite IV. Three Kites in a Storm

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