James Harley
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Performance
IF Festival Stream
IICSI’s 7th annual Improvisation Festival (IF) will run in collaboration with Sonorities Festival Belfast 2026, broadcast on the Sonorities homepage throughout the festival. A schedule and programme notes will be added to this page before the start of the festival....
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BIO
James Harley is a Canadian composer-improviser at the University of Guelph. He obtained his doctorate at McGill University in 1994, after spending six years (1982-88) composing and studying in Europe (London, Paris, Warsaw).
His music has been awarded prizes internationally and has been performed and broadcast around the world. Harley has written extensively on contemporary music. As a performer, he has a background in jazz, and has most recently worked as an interactive computer musician.
Music by Gayle Young places the tactile experience of sound in the foreground of a listener’s experience.