 Jim Hiscott, composer
Jim Hiscott was born in 1948 in St. Catharines, Ontario. In 1971, after earning a Master's Degree in Theoretical Particle Physics, he switched to music composition, studying with Samuel Dolin at the Royal Conservatory of Music and David Lidov and Richard Teitelbaum at York University. He is the recipient of the Creative Arts Award of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and a Governor General's Medal. His compositions have been performed across North America, in Europe and Asia by many artists including the Hilliard Ensemble, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver New Music Society ensemble, Rivka Golani, Arraymusic, and Philadelphia's Re'lache.
Jim Hiscott has performed his own works for button accordion in the WSO's Centara Corporation New Music Festival, the Vancouver New Music Society series, Toronto's Big Squeeze Festival, and on the main stage of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Recently he performed as button accordion soloist in Dancing on Wings of Fire with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra led by Marco Parisotto, the Niagara Symphony under Daniel Swift, and the New Orchestra of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony conducted by Glenn Buhr.
Recent premieres include Rhythm of Spring and Tropics, both written for both the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Andrey Boreyko, Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra for Paul Marleyn and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor Roy Goodman, Night Streets for the Ron Paley Big Band, Tree of Life for Balinese gender wayang quartet 'Maja Gender,' Dancing Waves for the Brandon Chamber Players led by T. Patrick Carrabré, and World Dances for the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society.
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