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Michael Reinhart
Michael Reinhart, A.O.C.A. 1976, has a wide & varied experience in both visual arts & music, having exhibited paintings, prints & drawings in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, New York & Lyons, France. His illustrations have been published nationally & internationally in newspapers, books, magazines & on television. He studied accordion & is a self-taught finger-style guitarist. Since 1982, he's collaborated extensively with dancers & choreographers in Toronto, Montreal & New York primarily as a composer, but also as stage & lighting designer, video artist & photographer. Among them are John Oswald, Claudia Moore, Marc Boivin, & René Highway. He has composed scores for over twenty choreographies by long-time collaborator Lin Snelling, with whom he regularly improvises & teaches, their most recent projects being Loop Thing, extinction, circle, IAMMYOWNRAIN & Woman As Landscape, the soundtrack of which was released as a CD in 2000. Michael created a score for the film Ningiura in 2000 & Dear Little One in 2005, by Marie-Hélène Cousineau; & in 2002 recorded the CD Quaraaluktuq, a collaboration with nine Inuit singers, based on traditional Inuit songs & his impressions of the Arctic. The latter was adapted into a multi-disciplinary performance, Qabaret Quaraaluktuq, presented at O Patro Výš in 2003, & Théàtre La Chapelle in 2004. The choreography-document extinction, with dance artist Lin Snelling, wherein he created a video installation, set & lighting design in addition to an original music score, appeared at Usine 'C' in 2004. In the past year, Michael has participated at Montreal spoken word events such as Words & Music & Cirque des Mots. Recently, renowned director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat) included some of Michael's music in his latest documentary Kiviak vs. Canada. In addition to work with an improvisational dance/music ensemble in CHALK, presented in Dancing Across Borders at Tangente in Montreal, with a subsequent tour in New England in February 2007, His music has been aired on many national & local CBC radio programs, as well as on community & university radio across Canada. Michael continues to improvise & perform original music as a singer-songwriter in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa & Vancouver, & is currently at work on original compositions towards an album in the not-too-distant future.
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