Alexandra Pohran Dawkins
Associate Professor
school of music
University of Victoria
Canada
Biography
Alexandra Pohran Dawkins is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she was a student of Melvin Berman; she furthered her studies with Heinz Holliger. She has held the principal oboe positions with the orchestras of the National Ballet Company Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company and has extensive orchestral experience with, among others, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. Ms. Pohran Dawkins is well recognized as an interpreter of contemporary music and has commissioned and premiered a number of Canadian works. She was the Director of New Music programming at Open Space Gallery in Victoria from 1989 to 1994 and has performed in ensemble and as soloist with Toronto’s New Music Concerts and Vancouver New Music Society.
Research Interest
music composition,music theory
Publications
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Statements A. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION MARCH 31, 2013.
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Ayres PG. Aitken, Donald Melvin, Toronto; Dal-housie University, 1961. Died Jan. 20, 2006, aged 72. Allison, Gerda Elisabeth, Etobicoke, Ont.; University of Manitoba, 1937. CMAJ. 2006 Mar 28;174(7):1049.
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Arnold S. The Cultural Trombone: A Contemporary View on National Performance Practices.
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Alexandrowicz C. Dancing the page: reflections on staging poetic text. Studies in Theatre and Performance. 2015 May 4;35(2):120-39.
