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In 2008-2009, Alexina Louie was guest composer on two major orchestral tours. The first was a tour of Nunavik with Kent Nagano, musicians from the Montreal Symphony and Inuit throat singers who performed her newly commissioned work, Take the Dog Sled. The second was an extensive tour of Western Canada with Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra who commissioned and performed her composition Infinite Sky With Birds. The season also saw the premiere of Pursuit, a new concerto for string quartet and orchestra commissioned by The Toronto Symphony for the Tokyo String Quartet. | In 2008-2009, Alexina Louie was guest composer on two major orchestral tours. The first was a tour of Nunavik with Kent Nagano, musicians from the Montreal Symphony and Inuit throat singers who performed her newly commissioned work, Take the Dog Sled. The second was an extensive tour of Western Canada with Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra who commissioned and performed her composition Infinite Sky With Birds. The season also saw the premiere of Pursuit, a new concerto for string quartet and orchestra commissioned by The Toronto Symphony for the Tokyo String Quartet. | ||
She is the winner of two Juno Awards, NAC Composers Award, Léger Prize, Chalmer’s National Music Award, SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Award. | |||