Colleen's artistic resume

• *Premiere performance with North Saskatchewan Wind Symphony August 2023. 
• Digital WAV file available.

• *Premier performance with Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop
• Oct. 28 - Nov. 10, 2004 workshop & concert dates with Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop

Flute/ClavesClarinet/Medium RocksViolaPiano/2 Rainsticks/Cup

• Performances at New Music New Places with the Saskatoon Composer Performance Society Oct 1 & 15 2004
• *Premier  performance May 28, 1995 Convocation Hall U of S, Saskatoon, SK
• *CBC Broadcast held at premier performance

Flute/Claves

Clarinet/Medium Rocks

Viola

Piano/2 Rainsticks/Cup

• Performances at New Music New Places with the Saskatoon Composer        Performance Society Oct 1 & 15 2004
• *Premier performance May 28, 1995 Convocation Hall U of S, Saskatoon, SK
• *CBC Broadcast held at premier performance

Percussion 1/Timpani, 2 water glasses pitched to B & F#

2/Bird Whistle, Brake Drum of indefinite pitch, Small Water Gong, Triangle

3/ Bass Drum, Wooden Wind Chimes, Crotales

Solo Flute

• *Premier performance May 28, 1995 Convocation Hall U of S, Saskatoon, SK
• *CBC Broadcast held at premier performance for Prairie New Music Festival, Regina, SK

Solo Piano

• *Premier performance May 28, 1995 Convocation Hall U of S, Saskatoon, SK
• *CBC  Broadcast held at premier performance

Solo Piano

• No performances at this time

(For Cathy, John and Vern)

Trumpet in Bb, Horn in F,  Trombone

• *Premiere December 1993, Quance Theatre, Saskatoon, SK 

Dedicated to Colette Simonot

For Unaccompanied Clarinet in Bb

• Commissioned by C. Simonot for 4th year recital
• *Premiered April 6, 1993 Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan

Story by Norman Robert Cloutier (1984), Music by C. Ostoforoff (1993)

Instrumentation:

Chimes/Marimba

Soprano

Clarinet in Bb

String Bass

Tenor

Prepared Piano

Narrator

Props White Curtain or screen,  Harp of figure of one, Lots of white candles – lit

Lighting: Blue Background only, Spot on narrator, Row of lit candles

• *Premiered March 26, 1993 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

 For Solo Bassoon and Prepared Tape

• *Premiered March 27, 1992 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan
•  Performance May 1995 Convocation Hall, Saskatoon, SK

1/Castanets, Bongos 3, Claves

2/Tom-Toms, Tambourine

3/Cowbell, Triangle, Maracas, Gouro

• *Premiered March 27, 1992 Mvt. 1 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan
• *Premiered November 28, 1992 Mvt. 2 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan
• CBC Radio performance Ambience presents The Prairie Beat with Percussion Workshop Trio May 10, 1995
• Featured at International Society of Music Educators Tampa Bay 1994 featuring Saskatchewan composers (World Conference of ISME)
• Regular repertoire for Saskatchewan-based Percussion Workshop Trio
• Work performed at biggest 15-concert tour in SK through the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils
• Performed at 40 school in Saskatchewan, Manitoba
• Presented at Drum Scapes in Saskatoon in 1998, 1999
• Lakeland College Conservatory of Music recital November 28, 1992
• Northern Saskatchewan International Children’s Festival 1994

text by William Bulter Yeats

for Voice & Piano

• *Premiered March 27,1992 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

for unaccompanied Contrabassoon

• *Premiered March 27, 1992 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

Solo Piano

• *Premiered March 27, 1992 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

1. Spooks

2. Shades of Purple Sleep

3. Environmental Disaster

4. Nacht Fantasie

*Premiered March 22, 1991 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

Flute/Piccolo – Triangle

Oboe (or Alto Flute) – Wood Blocks

Soprano Saxophone – Finger Cymbals

Bassoon – Flexatone

• *Premiered March 22, 1991 Quance Theatre, University of Saskatchewan

Solo Electric Piano

• No performances at this time

Piano Solo

• *Premiered at a private wedding ceremony in June 1987