Keith Hamel

Keith Hamel (born 1956 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada) is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and the computer.
Education.
Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 1981), and A.M. and Ph.D degrees from Harvard University (1984, 1985). Between 1981 and 1984, he also studied Computer Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Barry Vercoe. Hamel also received composition instruction from Istvan Anhalt, Donald Martino, Peter Maxwell Davies, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. He was a finalist in the 1986 CBC Young Composers Competition (percussion category), and also received four awards in the P.R.O. Canada Young Composers Competition.
Career.
Hamel has been on the faculty at the UBC School of Music since 1987, and has been a full professor since 1997. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), a Researcher at the Media Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and Director of the UBC Computer Music Studio.
Keith Hamel has been a visiting lecturer at Stony Brook University, Queen's University, the University of Western Ontario, Simon Fraser University, the Banff School of Fine Arts, the University of Santa Barbara, the University of Washington School of Music, York University, IRCAM, and several other academic institutions.
Selected performers.
Ensemble Contemporain, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music Ensemble, Elektra Women's Choir, ARRAYMUSIC, New Music Concerts, musica intima, Hammerhead Consort, Standing Wave, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Robert Silverman, Robert Cram, Robert Aitken, Chenoa Anderson, Mark McGregor, Paolo Bortolussi, Corey Hamm, The Nu:BC Collective, Jesse Read, Jean-Guy Boisvert, Julia Nolan, Douglas Finch and François Houle.
Affiliations.
Vice President, International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) (2003–2007)
President, Canadian Music Centre (2002–2006)
Board Member, Canadian League of Composers (1995–2005)
Published by Editions Musicales Européenes (Paris), Cypress Editions (Vancouver)
Keith Hamel is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
AMP represents the music of Paul Steenhuisen, Howard Bashaw, Keith Hamel, Bob Pritchard, James Harley, André Ristic, Gordon Fitzell, and Aaron Gervais.
Notable students.
Hamel has been principal supervisor of several students who have proceeded to professional careers in music. These include Richard Covey, Gordon Fitzell, Brent Lee, Jocelyn Morlock, Bob Pritchard and Paul Steenhuisen.