The U of T New Music Festival’s Prize Winners Concert took place on January 31, 2026 at Walter Hall, University of Toronto at 2:00PM. This was a concert focusing on U of T composers and their achievements. The program included a performance of David Jaeger’s Night Music for clarinet, viola, and piano featuring performers Peter … Read more
On January 15th, 2026, at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto, there was a performance of new works for violin and piano, featuring CMC Artists in Residence, David Jaeger, C.M. (composer), Rea Beaumont (piano) and Christopher Verrette (violin). Two recent works by Jaeger received their world premieres: Suite for Violin and Piano and Caprice no. … Read more
The world premiere of David Jaeger’s Fantasia: Conjure You will take place on January 23rd, 2026 at the University of Toronto New Music Festival. Featuring the acclaimed Canadian cellist Noemie Raymond, with Sinfonia Toronto. The performance will be held at, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. West, Toronto. Tickets are available from the Sinfonia Toronto … Read more
The Scottish poet, David Cameron, with whom I have collaborated often, made the observation that the six female characters mentioned in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land seemed, in his view, to be rather narrowly defined. Cameron chose to write six poems in which he expanded on these characters, giving them deeper, more fully-formed images. The six Cameron poems … Read more
I was delighted when, late in 2024, I received a request from Jordi Morell, on behalf of the Swan Ensemble, to compose a quintet for the strings of the group. I had, just then, been working on a number of the melodies I had composed as settings of the poems of the Scottish poet, David … Read more
The highly regarded Brazilian-American piano virtuoso, Sergio R. Gallo will present a recital on June 10th, 2025 in which David Jaeger’s Song Without Words no. 5, based on a poem by David Cameron (I Can’t Help It) will receive its world premiere. Sergio Gallo is the winner of concerto competitions of the Sao Paulo Symphony … Read more
I’m very pleased to have my new work, Lyrics II – in memoriam Norma Beecroft included in Beverley Johnston’s wonderful project. It’s a work for vibraphone and electronic sound tracks, paying hommage to the great pioneer of Canadian electronic music, and my dear friend and colleague Norma Beecfroft. We lost Norma last October. She was … Read more
On March 30th, 2025, Canadian soprano Katherine Whyte gave the World Premiere of an unaccompanied song composed by David Jaeger, titled Awake Asleep, a setting of a poem by David Cameron. Her recital took place at the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts. Katherine Whyte has been praised for her “keen artistic sensibility” (Opera Today) and … Read more
The premiere took place in Tortosa, Spain, located near Barcelona, on Saturday, April 5th. The work consists of four movements based on melodies created setting the poetry of David Cameron. The movements are individually titled, 1. Sometimes the Summer, 2. For Winter, 3. A Blessing and 4. Gifts. The Swan Ensemble will also come to Ontario in June. They will give … Read more
Veda Hingert-McDonald (violin) and Marlena Pellegrino (viola) performed at Arraymusic in Toronto on November 30th, 2024, where they featured world premieres by Michael Dudley, Margin Zheng, Marlena Pellegrino, Veda Hingert-McDonald and David Jaeger. David composed his Rilke Duo no. 1 especially for this recital, based on poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke (from his Sonnets to Orpheus)