JANA SKARECKY, COMPOSERJana Skarecky is a Canadian contemporary classical composer of vocal and instrumental music – for solo voice, choir, solo instruments, chamber groups, and orchestra. She was born in Prague, in the Czech Republic, on November 11, 1957. She came to Canada with her family in 1968. In 1980 she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Honours Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where her primary composition teacher was Barrie Cabena. She also studied piano with Erhard Schlenker and French horn with Felix Acevedo. She is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, in piano performance. In 1987 she received a Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Sydney, Australia, where she studied with Peter Sculthorpe.
Ms. Skarecky's compositions cover a wide
spectrum of instrumental and vocal resources. Her music has
an expressive lyricism, and integrates a variety of
influences from Gregorian chant to Czech folksong. Her
compositions have been performed in Canada, the United
States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Her
one-woman opera Emily, the Way You Are was performed
to great acclaim in Jana Skarecky is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. She was Chair of the Association of Canadian Women Composers for two years, and served for five years as a member of the National Council of the Canadian League of Composers. In addition to Ms. Skarecky's work as a composer, she is active as a visual artist (primarily painting with acrylics). She often composes and paints in parallel, finding that the two media interact and lead in new directions. She teaches piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She has sung with the Contemporary Singers in Sydney (Australia) and the St. Mary Magdalene's Gallery Choir in Toronto. She is the translator of The Foundations of Modern Harmony by Karel Janecek from Czech into English. Compositions by Jana Skarecky are available from the Canadian Music Centre at: www.musiccentre.ca To commission Jana Skarecky to compose a musical work, contact her by going to "Contact" on this website. Rates per minute vary according to instrumentation, and generally follow the Canadian League of Composers Commissioning Rates (see http://www.clc-lcc.ca/commissioning.php ).
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