Frank Horvat

Album Just Released!
Performed by bass clarinetist Kathryn Ladano and special guests, this album of personal recovery and healing comes out this month. Learn more. Read More
Sound Installations
Experience TWO new environmental sound installations, now exhibiting at the Venice Biennale (arctic) and the Guelph Arboretum (trees). Read More
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If you drew a Venn diagram showing the overlap between Canadian contemporary classical music and environmental activism, one name would stand out... Read CBC Music Read More

FRANK HORVAT - Composer · Pianist · Songwriter · Recording Artist · Arranger · Producer

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Melanie Kathryn Ladano (bass clarinet), Greg Turner (piano) more... 10:02
Coll - Hazel Sharlene Wallace (harp) more... 05:28
Homeland Security Meredith Hall (soprano), Brahm Goldhamer (piano) more... 03:32
An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene: Causes, 1.4 Home Sweet Home SHHH!! Ensemble more... 3:00
Torngat Mountains Sébastien Malette (bassoon), Allison Wiebe (piano) more... 04:24
Unity in Distress Odin Quartet more... 01:41
Innertation Frank Horvat more... 01:00:18
Alchemist's Brew Kathryn Ladano more... 06:16
Music for Self-Isolation - Cello Amahl Arulanandam (cello) more... 01:47
Empathy, Compassion, and Finding Happiness in Our Troubled World Frank Horvat more... 03:27
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
Bliss Laura Swankey (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) more... 10:10
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
Memories of a Place Past – St. Joe’s Trio Dell'aria more... 14:05
fishworshipper The Frank Horvat Band more... 03:06
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 Man, the Snake and the Fox, movt. 5 Ron Korb (flute), Ralitsa Tcholakova (violin), Benjamin Smith (piano) more... 01:54
The Dignity Song Romy Mounzer (vocals), Frank Horvat (piano) more... 04:39

Latest Compositions
Almost Homeless – Ottawa
2024 – suite for violin, marimba, piano and fixed electronics – 45:00 Performances World Premiere: October 17, 2024, Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada Hanna Williamson (violin) SHHH!! Ensemble (Edana Higham, piano | Zac Pulak, marimba) Programme Notes This composition explores the pressing realities faced by an increasing number of people in Ottawa who are contending with […]
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Trees.Listen
2022-24 – suite for acoustic lever harp and fixed electronics – 51:00 Performances World Premiere: September 6, 2024, The Arboretum at the University of Guelph, Canada Sharlene Wallace (harp) Installations Installation Premiere: Fall 2024 at The Arboretum at the University of Guelph, Canada Recording Album: Trees.Listen Date: October 4, 2024 Musician: Sharlene Wallace (Celtic lever […]
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More Rivers
2023 – for solo piano – approx. 65:00 Performances World Premiere: Jul 22, 2024, Sound Symposium XXI, St. John’s, Newfoundland Christina Petrowska Quilico Programme Notes More Rivers is a suite of solo piano pieces, each constructed with overlapping looping textures evoking the flow of water. Water is intrinsic to life. As living beings on this […]
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Un fleuve sans fin…
A River Without End 2024 – for solo piano – approx. 13:00 Performances World Premiere: Aug 3, 2024, Concerts aux Îles du Bic, Rimouski, Québec David Jalbert Programme Notes When I conceptualized this composition with David Jalbert, I began envisioning one piece that would attempt to encapsulate the multi-faceted beauty and majesty of the St. […]
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Let’s Sing Our Songs
2024 – for SATB Mixed Choir, Piano (plus optional strings) – 5:30 Performances World Premiere: May 26, 2024, St. Andrew’s United Church, Brantford, Canada Grand River Chorus Programme Notes When the Grand River Chorus asked me to compose a new piece in recognition of their 25th anniversary, I felt honoured to be given the task […]
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The Book of the Time-Travellers
…of the Worlds – a Fathomless Zero 2024 – stereo sound installation – 13:20 Music for an art installation by Parul Thacker entitled, ‘The Book of the Time-Travellers of the Worlds: the One by Whom All Live, Who Lives by None’, 2023-24. Credits: Frank Horvat (composer, sound designer, field recordist), Mohi Bahauddin Dagar (rudraveena), Parul […]
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Letters
2023 – music theatre songs for soprano voice – 20:00 Performances Workshop: Dec 15, 2023, Pia Bouman Dance Studios, Toronto, Canada Stacie Dunlop (soprano, performer) Workshop: Sep 24, 2024, The Cockpit, London, UK Stacie Dunlop (soprano, performer) Programme Notes Letters is a multi-disciplinary opera hybrid spanning the bridge between theatre, opera and the world of […]
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Fractures
2018-2022 – song cycle for soprano voice and piano – 49:00 Performances World Premiere: April 14, 2023, Humbercrest United Church, Toronto, Canada Meredith Hall (soprano), Brahm Goldhamer (piano) Recording Album: Fractures Date: November 17, 2023 Musician(s): Meredith Hall (soprano), Brahm Goldhamer (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat Location: Humbercrest United Church, Toronto Label: I Am Who I […]
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All that remains: Residual…
… Moments 2022-23 – for flute, violin, piano, vibraphone, cello, fixed electronics – 60:00 Music for an interdisciplinary performance art installation in collaboration with filmmaker, Gunilla Josephson. Performances World Premiere (1hr version): Nov 15, 2023, The Aperture Room, Toronto, Canada Thin Edge New Music Collective Programme Notes All that remains: Residual Moments can be described […]
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I Am Ice
2023 – for A Capella SATB Mixed Choir – 4:00 Performances World Premiere: Dec 16, 2023, Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, Canada The Annex Singers Programme Notes Frequently, as we contemplate the concept of marginalization, we tend to link it with actions directed towards our fellow humans, and this connection is indeed justified. Throughout the history […]
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An Auditory Survey of the Last…
…DAYS OF THE HOLOCENE 2022-23 – for piano and percussion duo / fixed electronics – 60:00 “…latest masterpiece. Horvat is known for distilling complex analyses into avant-garde, yet digestible experiences. Each sample is used sparingly, so as not to overshadow the instruments; they never sound tacky or appended to the music for the sake […]
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Magnificent Roots
2023 – for string orchestra – 7:30 Performances World Premiere: Oct 21, 2023, George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto, Canada Sinfonia Toronto The modal finale was a good platform for the warm Sinfonia Toronto style. – Arthur Kaptainis, Ludwig van Toronto Programme Notes When Sinfonia Toronto’s Music Director, Nurhan Arman, approached me to compose a concert […]
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Memories of Self-Isolation
2022 – for choir, soloists and chamber ensemble – 8 movements – 42 minutes Performing Forces SATB Chorus Soprano Soloist Mezzo Soprano Soloist Woodwind Quartet Percussion (vibraphone, tubular bells) Harp Piano String Quartet Double Bass Sheet Music MVT 8: Score & All Instrumental Parts (PDF) 50%-off discount MVT 8: SATB/Piano Part (PDF) 50%-off discount Note: […]
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Anatomy of the Recovering Brain
2023 – for bass clarinet and musical cameos (vibraphone, cello, piano, soprano), fixed electronics – 60:00 Performances World Premiere: Jun 11, 2023, The Registry Theatre, Kitchener, Canada NUMUS Recording Album: Anatomy of the Recovering Brain Date: Nov 15, 2024 Musician: Kathryn Ladano (bass clarinet), Richard Burrows (vibraphone), Morgan Lovell (cello), Greg Turner (piano), Pam Patel […]
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A Village of Landscapes
2021-22 – for bassoon, piano, fixed electronics – 60:00 Sheet Music coming November 2023 Recording Album: A Village of Landscapes Date: May 12, 2023 Musician(s): Sébastien Malette (bassoon), Allison Wiebe (piano) Producer: Frank Horvat Location: Port Nelson United Church, Burlington, Canada Label: I Am Who I Am Records Performances World Premiere of Near Arctic Bay: […]
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The Spirits That Haunt Us
2022 – for flute/alto flute and bassoon/contrabasson – 3 movements – 11:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Performances World Premiere: Mar 28, 2023, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Megan Lanz and Cayla Bellamy Programme Notes When Megan Lanz and Cayla Bellamy extended this opportunity for me to compose this work, I was very intrigued by the […]
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Memories of Self-Isolation
2022 – for choir, soloists and chamber ensemble – 8 movements – 42 minutes Performing Forces SATB Chorus Soprano Soloist Mezzo Soprano Soloist Woodwind Quartet Percussion (vibraphone, tubular bells) Harp Piano String Quartet Double Bass Premiere Performance World Premiere: Nov 12, 2022, Vancouver, Canada Vancouver Bach Choir Programme Notes When the Vancouver Bach Choir and […]
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Hope
2022 – for string quartet – 7:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Recording Album: From Oblivion to Hope Date: March 31, 2023 Musician(s): Odin Quartet – Alex Toskov (violin), Tanya Charles Iveniuk (violin), Matt Antal (viola), Samuel Bisson (cello) Producer: Frank Horvat & Alex Toskov Location: Canterbury Music, Toronto Label: I Am Who I Am Records […]
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In the Area of the Heart
2022 – for solo violin and fixed electronics – 6:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) [please contact me for fixed electronics part] Premiere Performance World Premiere: August 6, 2022, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Paulina Derbez (violin) Programme Notes Meditation has been an integral part of my daily routine for a number of years. My mind […]
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Innertation
Innertation 2019 – electronic – 1:00:00 Recording Album: Innertation Date: May 27, 2022 Composed & Produced: Frank Horvat Mixed & Mastered: Jean Martin Label: I Am Who I Am Records Programme Notes Innertation is a continuous 60-minute electronic ambient composition that I created as an extension to my meditation practice. I began composing this […]
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Just Cracked
2022 – for SATB Choir and piano – 3:10 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Programme Notes When I first read Just Cracked, a short poem by my friend, Meg Freer, I knew I would want to set it to music. In Meg’s touching prose, she evokes a heartfelt, consoling spirit for a loved one who is […]
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Helianthus
2022 – for a cappella Treble Choir – 3:30 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Performances World Premiere: Jun 3, 2022, De Kriekelaar GC, Brussels, Belgium Schaerbelles (concert marking 100 days of War in Ukraine) Canadian Premiere: May 7, 2023, Eastminster United Church, TorontoBach Children’s Chorus Programme Notes The barbaric invasion of the Ukraine in early 2022 […]
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Timeless Life
2019 – for orchestra (0000 / 2010 / timp / 2hp.pf / str) – 6:00 Sheet Music Score (pdf) [please contact me for the complete parts] Programme Notes This work is inspired by the idea that it is okay to have a mindset that one can live forever. While a life with no restrictions of […]
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To Cope and Manage
2021 – for solo violin – 3:45 Sheet Music Score (pdf) Premiere Performance World Premiere: Nov 18, 2021, Richmond Hill, Canada Stephen Sitarski (violin) Programme Notes According to the United Kingdom’s Mental Health Foundation, one of the pillars of good mental health is the “ability to cope with and manage change and uncertainty”. What I […]
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Two Hearts In Concert
2021 – for violin and viola – 3:15 PURCHASE SHEET MUSIC (PDF) Score Sample (pdf) Premiere Performance World Premiere: July 21, 2021, Edmonton, Canada Fabiola Amorim (viola), Vladimir Rufino (violin) Recording Album: DEBUT Date: July 2022 Musician(s): Amorim-Rufino Duo – Fabiola Amorim (viola), Vladimir Rufino (violin) Producer(s): Vladimir Rufino, Fabiola Amorim Location: Muttart Hall, […]
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Fractures
Fractures is an expansive 13-song cycle that draws its inspiration from the environmentally detrimental practice of hydraulic fracking. Each song possesses its own unique narrative.
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An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene
This new composition/album presents a radical catalogue of our created world’s sounds. The audience is faced with the echoes of our human-made environment, stripped bare of visual distractions
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A Village of Landscapes
A Village of Landscapes is a 13-piece suite for bassoon inspired by photos of stirring natural landscapes in Canada. Each photo was taken by award-winning nature photographer, Michelle Valberg. The 13 pieces in the suite represent each of the 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada.
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From Oblivion to Hope
This album starts pessimistically with a track called Oblivion, which is an easy headspace to live in these days, especially in the context of the pandemic and its outcomes. As the album progresses, the tone evolves into something more optimistic, ending with a heartfelt work simply called Hope.
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"Frank Horvat has been successfully exploring states of the human condition in contemporary times..."
– WholeNote Magazine
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Music for Self-Isolation
Recorded at Toronto's iconic (and empty) Roy Thomson Hall, in the three days before another COVID-19 lockdown in January 2021. This album is a culmination of a project that has been evolving over a year in collaboration with musicians around the world.
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"It takes a special skill to be able to create a whole atmosphere in a work that is just 2 minutes long."
– BBC Radio 3
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Innertation
It is time to make time and take the time. Innertation gives you that opportunity. It takes you on a 60-minute inward exploration.
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Project Dovetail
Frank Horvat’s final release in a trilogy that covers the epic year that has been. This latest emotionally fervent album, featuring some of Canada’s top chamber musicians, showcases the continued importance of art in our world.
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"Frank Horvat has carved a niche for himself among today’s composers, wearing his fragile heart on his sleeve..."
– CBC Music
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Happiness in a Troubled World
From this surprise release of new music courtesy of award-winning Canadian composer, Frank Horvat, comes the soothing and meditative sounds of Happiness in a Troubled World.
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"Frank Horvat's minimalism is attractive, bright-coloured…Also surprising."
– WholeNote Magazine
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A Little Dark Music vol. 2
Composer 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.
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"…it’s an important piece of musical art that needs to be heard"
– MainlyPiano.com
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What Goes Around
Centrediscs is proud to present, What Goes Around, a minimalist chamber album by Canadian composer Frank Horvat, featuring Beverley Johnston, Peter Stoll and Sharlene Wallace.
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For Those Who Died Trying
World-renowned Mivos Quartet records these 35 movements inspired by a photo essay by photographer, Luke Duggleby
Video: Juilliard String Quartet
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"Performed with intensity and poise by the Mivos Quartet...the resulting [musical] tributes are poignant."
– BBC Music Magazine
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Love in 6 Stages
From 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.
Video: Lust
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"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."
– WholeNote Magazine
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You Haven't Been
A 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.
Video: Diverging Crossroads
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"...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."
– WholeNote Magazine
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The Current Agenda
Social justice music of today, in a powerful, brutal and heartfelt electro-chamber package.
Video: 08/14/13 - Cairo
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"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."
– WholeNote Magazine
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Me to We
An utterly emotional exploration of the potency of love. The music will wrench your heart apart and then piece it back together again.
Video: I Wait For You
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"...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 Machine
This 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 Machine
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"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 You
A little indie and a little art rock... Pop, poetry and modern expression in a beautifully pained existence. Video: Inspired by the One I Love
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"The soundscapes are interesting, infectious, and hypnotic…"
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A Little Dark Music
An ambient yet powerful collection of compositions featuring four introspective tracks exploring real-world themes. Video: Earth Hour
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"Earth Hour really should be heard as one continuous piece, a journey... Highly recommended."
- WholeNote Magazine
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I'll Be Good
An 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!
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"Wildly original, often chaotic, eclectic as all get-out, and quite a ride."

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Recovering Brain Coming Soon
I’m thrilled to announce that my latest album will be released on November 15! This project is especially meaningful to me, as it marks the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with the incredible bass clarinetist Kathryn Ladano. The journey behind this album has been one of resilience, hope, and perseverance—a reflection of Kathryn’s own recovery […]
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Hiking Banff One Key At A Time
It’s been an absolutely amazing week with Hong Kong/Canadian/American pianist Vicky Chow! We recorded my solo piano compositions, The Banff Suite. I composed it during a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity a few years ago. Lisa and I would hike a trail, and then I’d compose a piano piece inspired by […]
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The Trees Are Coming Soon!
I’m excited to announce that the Trees.Listen album I created with harpist Sharlene Wallace will be released October 4! Here’s the official unveiling of the album cover… Our suite for lever harp and fixed electronics is inspired by the enlightening book To Speak for the Trees by acclaimed medical biochemist and botanist, Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger. […]
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Listening to the Trees
After much anticipation, harpist Sharlene Wallace and I have finally unveiled our creative collaboration, Trees.Listen, to the world! And what a remarkable way to do it. This past weekend at the Arboretum in Guelph was extraordinary, featuring Sharlene’s world premiere performance of the entire suite for a large, receptive audience. The event also included immersive […]
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Summer Thoughts
Each week this summer, I posted a random thought/idea/feeling/wish that I hope will help make me a better person and at the same time be a positive influence on the world…
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More Rivers Premiere in Newfoundland
A lovely irony that More Rivers was premiered beside an ocean! But that did not diminish the specialness of the occasion, considering that it was Christina Petrowska Quilico doing the premiering and it was hosted by Sound Symposium in one of my favourite places on the planet, St. John’s, Newfoundland! Along with Christina’s performance, it […]
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Recording Trees
What a thrill for harpist Sharlene Wallace and me to enter into the 5th and final step of our creative collaboration, Trees.Listen. It was a great three days of recording at the Union Sound Company with our friend, Jean Martin. We really appreciated the help of Darren McGill during our sessions. Our suite for lever […]
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Recording a Recovering Brain
On two recent Saturdays, I enjoyed spending time with my friend, Kathryn Ladano, recording my composition, Anatomy of the Recovering Brain. This is a work I composed for Kathryn last year detailing the challenges that brain injury survivors face, some for many years following their injury. The hour-long piece also shares how survivors are succeeding […]
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More Rivers Recording
I recently attended Christina Petrowska Quilico’s recording session for my new composition, More Rivers, a suite of solo piano pieces Christina commissioned me to compose for her. Christina’s album recording is being produced by David Jaeger and engineered by Dennis Patterson. What a special day it was for me to be in the presence of […]
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Preparation for A River Without End
What a tremendous privilege it was to meet up with concert pianist extraordinaire, David Jalbert, in Ottawa to review my composition he commissioned, Un fleuve sans fin / A River Without End. When David and I set out on this collaborative journey, he told me of his spiritual connection to the St. Lawrence River. Having […]
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Venice Biennale Sound Installation
It’s been a great week here in Venice, attending the opening of the Biennale! I feel so honoured to have been invited to compose an electronic work to accompany part of my friend Parul Thacker’s exhibit at the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. Parul’s suspended hand-sewn double-sided stitched drawings were partly inspired by our collective experience while […]
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More Rivers Are Flowing
What a delight to visit Christina Petrowska Quilico to go over More Rivers, a new suite of solo piano compositions I composed for her. Abby, Christina’s dog, supervised our productive session and kept me nicely in line. Christina is a highly acclaimed pianist and Order of Canada recipient. I have been such a big fan […]
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Annex Singers Rehearse ‘I Am Ice’
Want to know how to feel like the most fortunate human being on the planet? Compose music and have a choir sing it to you while you sit in front of them! This was exactly my experience recently as the Annex Singers rehearsed a new work they commissioned me to compose for them: I Am […]
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World Premiere – All that remains: Residual Moments
There was a beautiful energy in The Aperture Room in the heart of Toronto’s downtown for the world premiere of All that remains: Residual Moments last week. Gunilla Josephson‘s evocative moving imagery projected on 3 large screens surrounding members of the Thin Edge New Music Collective performing a live soundtrack was truly an immersive and […]
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Countdown to Residual Moments
It’s a week to go before the world premiere of All that remains: Residual Moments, a large-scale performance art installation featuring music, film and live performance. Rehearsal with members of the Thin Edge New Music Collective went splendidly well today. My multi-year collaboration with innovative video artist, Gunilla Josephson, is shaping up very nicely. Thin […]
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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.com
Frank 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.org
Toronto 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 review
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.

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19 Nov

Shortly after releasing our album ‘Fractures’, I joined soprano Meredith Hall and our talented poet collaborators, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Rachel Morgan, and Susan Truxell Sauter.

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19 Nov

Tune into Classical Connection on @CFCRSaskatoon to listen to music I made with Kathryn Ladano. Thank you Ella Wiernicka for championing the music!

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Her devotion to others was admirable, but this modest composer should be celebrated for her own considerable talents, says Leah Broad

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18 Nov

I am not a tool to anyone or anything. Are you?

From the album, Strange Machine, released 10 years ago this month.

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A sweetly vulnerable song that paints a picture of a mother's comforting embrace as she reassures and consoles her young child. In this lyrical canvas, childlike innocence and imagery harmonize with the poignant reality that the child's father, an oil and gas worker, finds himself in a necessary role to provide for their family.Lullaby in Fracktown, track 6 from the album, Fractures, released 1 year ago this month, commissioned and performed by soprano, Meredith Hall, with pianist, @Brahm Goldhamer. Text by Lilace Mellin Guignard.LISTEN 🔊🎧…Spotify: bit.ly/40tAPM5Apple Music: bit.ly/3CaAAvkMy Website: frankhorvat.com/discography/fractures/#artsong#musicwithamessage ... See MoreSee Less

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Now Available, 'Anatomy of the Recovering Brain', a new album of electro-chamber music. Life changed instantly for bass clarinetist Kathryn Ladano when she sustained a traumatic brian injury that upended her world.Streaming on most platforms (lnk.to/recovering-brain). Also available on Bandcamp (kathrynladano.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-the-recovering-brain) and my website (frankhorvat.com/discography/anatomy-of-the-recovering-brain/) ... See MoreSee Less

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Dedicated most humbly to those who have monotonous and thankless jobs. Human Cyborg, track 6 from the album, Strange Machine, released 10 years ago this month, featuring yours truly on piano, Ghislain Aucoin (vocals), Thom Gill (guitar), Bram Gielen (bass), Jean Martin (percussion), Felicity Williams (bg vocals) & Kismet Cooper (bg vocals). Video by Lisa Horvat.LISTEN 🔊🎧…Spotify: bit.ly/3UxouToApple Music: bit.ly/3YCLQIGor WATCH 📽 on YouTube: youtu.be/Ibavzr7e5Mc#ArtRock#ExperimentalSong ... See MoreSee Less

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Out today, my latest album, featuring bass clarinetist, Kathryn Ladano.Available on most streaming platforms: lnk.to/recovering-brainOr listen at my website: frankhorvat.com/composition/anatomy-of-the-recovering-brain/ ... See MoreSee Less

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