After being out there for 6 months Shifting Sands (my jazz violin fusion album) has garnered some attention and some nice reviews. Here are just a few: One of the “Five new B.C. indie albums Read more…
On Oct 3, 2021 the Victoria Symphony will be playing my composition titled “The Rapids” in a reading session of new works. I’m thrilled to get this opportunity to workshop the piece before it gets Read more…
I’m so honoured and thrilled to be selected as the new Composer in Residence for Chor Leoni Men’s Choir. An added bonus was to see this wonderful video created for the choir’s year-end concert. These Read more…
I’m in the last stages of mixing my first jazz album of original material titled “Shifting Sands”. Shifting Sands fuses jazz and bluegrass with world music modalities and, due to COVID, the album was recorded Read more…
The wonderful women’s vocal ensemble Papagena has just released their latest album Hush and the first track on the album is my composition Moonset. Wow! This group’s musicianship is incredible. What a wonderfully nuanced performance Read more…
Click on the link below to download this year’s newsletter with links to new compositions and recordings. Don Macdonald Choral Music 2019.pdf