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This piano music has been ten years in the making. "…it's an important piece of musical art that needs to be heard..." Find out all about it! Read More
What Goes Around?
Film loops! 2020 will see the release of five music videos from the album What Goes Around. Each film was created by a different Canadian filmmaker. Check out the latest videos... Read More
Self-Isolation Music
With everything being cancelled and musicians cooped up at home, here are some fresh new compositions, for this unique period in time, that you can self-isolate with and share with the world online. Read More
FRANK HORVAT - Composer · Pianist · Songwriter · Recording Artist · Arranger · Producer
Album Sampler
- Life for Mars Frank Horvat (piano) more... 05:28
- A Little Loopy Sharlene Wallace (harp) more... 09:54
- I Wait For You Edwin Huizinga (violin), Erika Nielsen (cello), Gregory Millar (piano) more... 03:44
- The Thailand HRDs, mvt. 23 Mivos Quartet more...
- Diverging Crossroads Frank Horvat (piano) more... 08:32
- Void Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) more... 10:01
- Whistleblower Jamie Thompson (flute), Erika Nielsen (cello), Daniel Morphy (marimba), Frank Horvat (electric piano) more... 09:55
- Return to East Aleppo Frank Horvat (piano) more... 05:09
- fishworshipper The Frank Horvat Band more... 03:06
- The Man, the Snake and the Fox, movt. 5 Ron Korb (flute), Ralitsa Tcholakova (violin), Benjamin Smith (piano) more... 01:54
- Starsky & Hutch Frank Horvat (piano) more... 03:36
- The Hurting Game The Frank Horvat Band more... 01:35
- The Week After Frank Horvat (piano) more... 10:06
- The Dignity Song Romy Mounzer (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) more... 04:39
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I Am Not Alone2020 – 5-part student violin ensemble – 2:00 minutes Sheet Music Score (PDF) PURCHASE PARTS Violin 1 Part (PDF) Violin 2 Part (PDF) Violin 3 Part (PDF) Violin 4 Part (PDF) Violin 5 Part (PDF) Programme Notes I composed this piece at home in the Spring of 2020. I, like most of the world, was […]View Item -
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Pedal Music2020 – for chamber musicians – 95:00 (5 movements, 3-21 musicians each) Performances World Premiere: June 14, 2020, MúsicaOcupa Festival, Quito, Ecuador (POSTPONED until October) commissioned by InConcerto Programme Notes Each movement in Pedal music takes a theme from Handel’s Water Music (1717) as a jumping off point. As Handel’s piece was originally conceived as […]View Item -
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Music for Self-Isolation2020 – various solos and duos – 2:00 minutes each As a composer, I felt helpless at home during this COVID-19 pandemic. Then I thought, I could at least provide my musical friends with new compositions while they are spending time in self-isolation. So since late March, I composed 31 new short pieces of music […]View Item -
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Earth Hour 22019 – piano – 60:00 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Recording Album: A Little Dark Music 2 Date: March 27, 2020 Musician(s): Frank Horvat Producer: Frank Horvat Location: Canterbury Music, Toronto Label: I Am Who I Am Programme Notes This is the sequel to my first 60-minute solo piano piece for the dark. Ten years on […]View Item -
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I Love You2019 – for 16 pre-recorded voices – 11:50 Programme Notes I invited members of the public to submit an audio clip of themselves saying or singing, ‘I Love You’. I got such a wide array of material – poignant timbres in peoples’ spoken voices, passionate singing, farcical delivery and everything in between. I took this […]View Item -
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7 Pianos2018 – for 7 pianos – 14:30 Sheet Music Piano 1 (pdf) Piano 2 (pdf) Piano 3 (pdf) Piano 4 (pdf) Piano 5 (pdf) Piano 6 (pdf) Piano 7 (pdf) Recording Album: What Goes Around Date: October 25, 2019 Musician(s): Frank Horvat Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Location: Canterbury Music Co., Toronto Label: Centrediscs […]View Item -
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Sunken Carousel2012 – for Celtic harp, 2 marimbas, piano, double bass – 10:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Harp & Marimba 1 Part (pdf) Marimba 2 Part (pdf) Piano Part (pdf) Double Bass Part (pdf) Recording Album: What Goes Around Date: October 25, 2019 Musician(s): Sharlene Wallace, Michael Davidson, Frank Horvat, Joseph Phillips Producer: Frank Horvat […]View Item -
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A Little Loopy2014 – for 4 harps – 10:00 Recording Album: What Goes Around Date: October 25, 2019 Musician(s): Sharlene Wallace Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Location: THE FARM, Toronto Label: Centrediscs Programme Notes The phrase ‘a little loopy’ often implies something eccentric, crazy or confusing. This is not the case with this composition. This […]View Item -
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To My Mother2019 – clarinet in A & piano – 7:50 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Clarinet Part (pdf) Programme Notes Inspired by the poem… To My Mother Christina Rossetti – 1830-1894 To-day’s your natal day; Sweet flowers I bring: Mother, accept, I pray My offering. And may you happy live, And long us bless; Receiving as you […]View Item -
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Fake News2018 – cello & piano – 6:45 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Programme Notes When I was a kid, sometimes I couldn’t help myself but flatulate when in public. The best way to deflect attention from the fact that I had just emitted gaseous matter from my body was to scream, “ooh, who farted???”, as loud […]View Item -
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Life Span2018 – string quartet – 10:10 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Programme Notes At the time I composed these programme notes for this composition, I had been a living human being on this planet for 44 years, 5 months and 14 days. According to one of those online life expectancy calendars, I can expect to live […]View Item -
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Oblivion2018 – string quartet – 8:20 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Programme Notes Oh, how “delightful” to go through life completely oblivious to the world around you. Oblivious to the abuses against our air and water, against the fundamental rights for all humans, against love and compassion. No, you live in this mindless bubble where you […]View Item -
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The Thailand HRDs2016-17 – for string quartet – 70:00 (35-movements, each movement is 2 minutes) Commissioned by Protection International Recipient of the 2017 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award Happening NOW: #music4HRDs Sheet Music Score (pdf) “It is impossible to escape Frank Horvat’s mystical hypothesis that music is somehow part of all human DNA…a testament to the genius of […]View Item -
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An Understated Resolve2014 – solo piano – 3:42 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Recording Album: You Haven’t Been Buy Piece: iTunes Date: September 20, 2017 Location: Canterbury Studios, Toronto Musicians: Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat Programme Notes This composition is dedicated to a friend who always shows grace, wisdom and an understated resolve – a special […]View Item -
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Piano Piece No. 52015 – 4 hands / 2 pianos – 9:00 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Piano Piece No. 5 (Frank Horvat) from Millar Piano Duo on Vimeo. Performances World Premiere: November 20, 2017, University of New Hampshire Millar Piano Duo Programme Notes Unlike many of my compositions, this piece is not programmatic, as is evident by the […]View Item -
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Void2016-17 – for female voice and piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Words by Frank Horvat & Lisa Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed […]View Item -
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End2016-17 – for piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed End to be the fifth piece on my concept album, Love in 6 […]View Item -
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Fight2016-17 – for female voice and piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Words by Frank Horvat & Lisa Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed […]View Item -
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Bliss2016-17 – for female voice and piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Words by Frank Horvat & Lisa Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed […]View Item -
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Lust2016-17 – for female voice and piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Words by Frank Horvat & Lisa Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed […]View Item -
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Gaze2016-17 – for female voice and piano – 10:00 Music by Frank Horvat Words by Frank Horvat & Lisa Horvat Recording Album: Love in 6 Stages Buy Song: iTunes Date: September 21, 2017 Location: THE FARM, Toronto Musicians: Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat and Jean Martin Programme Notes I composed […]View Item -
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Heat Island2017 – piano – 9:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Performances World Premiere: July 13, 2017, Music & Beyond Festival, Horticulture Building, Ottawa Frank Horvat (piano) Recording Album: A Little Dark Music 2 Date: March 27, 2020 Musician(s): Frank Horvat Producer: Frank Horvat Location: Canterbury Music, Toronto Label: I Am Who I Am Programme Notes When […]View Item -
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Return to East Aleppo2017 – piano & electronics – 5:12 Recording Album: Never Again Is Now Buy Album: The Aleppo Music Project Musicians: Various including Frank Horvat (piano) Programme Notes On January 18, 2017, I read an article on BBC News’ web site by journalist, Jeremy Brown, who provided a detailed first-hand account of the return of […]View Item -
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Fifty-Ninth Index2015 – electronic – 3:45 Programme Notes I composed this electronic work as my contribution to an online arts project entitled 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY. The project, a collaboration between the AMAE Art Collective, artist Pier Giorgio De Pinto and the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, called on composers to create a work that would […]View Item -
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Despair2016 – solo piano – 2:45 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Recording Album: You Haven’t Been Buy Piece: iTunes Date: September 20, 2017 Location: Canterbury Studios, Toronto Musicians: Frank Horvat (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat Programme Notes Then bitter self-reproaches as I stood I dealt me silently As one perverse–misrepresenting Good In graceless mutiny. Excerpt from […]View Item
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A Little Dark Music vol. 2Composer and pianist Frank Horvat returns a decade later with a follow-up album to his original instru- mental ode to the planet. A Little Dark Music 2 is introspective and powerful, a very personal reaction to the current state of our planet ten years on. Angry yet full of hope and beauty.Buy Album
"…it’s an important piece of musical art that needs to be heard"
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What Goes AroundCentrediscs is proud to present, What Goes Around, a minimalist chamber album by Canadian composer Frank Horvat, featuring Beverley Johnston, Peter Stoll and Sharlene Wallace.Buy Album -
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For Those Who Died TryingWorld-renowned Mivos Quartet records these 35 movements inspired by a photo essay by photographer, Luke DugglebyBuy Album
Video: Juilliard String Quartet
"Performed with intensity and poise by the Mivos Quartet...the resulting [musical] tributes are poignant."
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Love in 6 StagesFrom Gaze to Lust to Bliss and on in a downward spiral, Love in 6 Stages takes you through the journey of an ill-fated relationship using the simplicity of voice and piano.Buy Album
Video: Lust
"A work where minimalism meets art song and where the two milieus collide in the visceral physicality and psychology of love...the six aspects of love turn into something superbly aerodynamic."
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You Haven't BeenA follow-up response to Horvat’s first solo piano album a decade earlier (I’ll Be Good), You Haven’t Been takes on a beautiful and captivating tone. Introspective, full of hope and despair, the music looks at this storytelling pianist’s own struggles with mental health.Buy Album
Video: Diverging Crossroads
"...so deeply personal that listening to the music requires an intrusive mindset…recording the events of this long and difficult expedition in deeply personal and profoundly beautiful music."
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The Current AgendaSocial justice music of today, in a powerful, brutal and heartfelt electro-chamber package.Buy Album
Video: 08/14/13 - Cairo
"Horvat focuses his outward vision and glares at the world in all its nakedness. What he sees results in music filled with anger, a mesmeric and hypnotic visual account of a world gone mad."
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Me to WeAn utterly emotional exploration of the potency of love. The music will wrench your heart apart and then piece it back together again.Buy Album
Video: I Wait For You
"...warm sounds that evoke healing, through music that is mysterious and exotic as well as long limbed and almost aria like without the vocals." – WholeNote Magazine -
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Strange MachineThis album is indie rock with a splash of art. Crafted like a playlist, try listening to the whole album to see its effect. Pure energy that comes straight out of your speakers directly into your heart and soul. Video: Strange MachineBuy Album
"These songs will grant one rare access to peer into the soul of a quintessential artist and tormented soul that none of us can get enough of." – Indie Music Review -
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I Can See YouA little indie and a little art rock... Pop, poetry and modern expression in a beautifully pained existence. Video: Inspired by the One I LoveBuy Album
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A Little Dark MusicAn ambient yet powerful collection of compositions featuring four introspective tracks exploring real-world themes. Video: Earth HourBuy Album
"Earth Hour really should be heard as one continuous piece, a journey... Highly recommended."
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I'll Be GoodAn aggressive and virtuosic collection of original solo piano compositions. These pieces without words tell deeply personal stories. Video: Like Franz Liszt and Metallica in a cage match!Buy Album
"Wildly original, often chaotic, eclectic as all get-out, and quite a ride."
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Stuart Derdeyntheprovince.com...put something together that really can be compared to Pink Floyd and the more out there aspects of Bjork... A must hear.
Raul da Gamathewholenote.comFrank Horvat is one of the most inventive song writers to come out of the contemporary scene in Canada. ...duos appear to tear through the composer's innards not simply to discover his heart, but to gather its myriad pieces and bind them back together again. Horvat's work is exquisitely eventful and almost insidiously
effective.
John Teraudsmusicaltoronto.orgToronto pianist [and composer] Frank Horvat likes to do things his way, not anyone else's. He ignores genre boundaries and isn’t afraid to mix politics with art.
Thom Ellisindie music reviewThese songs will grant one rare access to peer into the soul of a quintessential artist and tormented soul that none of us can get enough of.
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