John Rea CM (born 1944) is a Montreal-based composer who won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in both 1981 and 1992.
[1] His children's opera The Prisoners Play from 1972 uses serial techniques.
He is the previous dean and head of the composition department at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, from which he has taken his retirement.
[3] Among his notable students are composers Robin Minard and John Oliver.
Ms The Prisoners Play, opera (Paul Woodruff).
Ms Com-possession 'Daemonic afterimages in the theatre of transitory states.'
Ms. McGill University Records 83019 (Laucke) Une Fleur du mal.
Sop, clarinet, violoncello and percussion Canto di Beatrice.
Voice and piano, National Competition for Young Performers of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; version for two voices and orchestra, 1996 Urfaust—tragédie subjective (after Goethe and Pessoa).
Incidental music, Théâtre UBU Sacrée Landowska.
Ms. RCI 658/McGill University Records 81013 (McGill SO, Mayer conductor) Vanishing Points.
Ms Prologue, Scene and Movement (classical Latin palindrome).
Ms. Mel SMLP-4040 (York Winds) Jeux de Scène 'fantaisie-hommage à Richard Wagner.'
Hn, oboe, violoncello, piccolo, fl, piano, mar, 3 glockenspiel, blacksmith's anvil.
Ms Médiator '...pincer la musique aujourd'hui..'.
Ms. RCI 570 (Événements du neuf, Rea conductor) Treppenmusik.
Saxophone quartet, 4 clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, double-bass, tape.
Ms Les Raisons des Forces Mouvantes.
University of Montreal UNMUS-105 (CD) (Nouvel ensemble moderne) Objets Perdus.
Ms Also Le Petit Livre des 'Ravalet' (1983) for early music instr, tape, and 4 narrator, and Offenes Lied (1986) for 2 soprano and clarinet, both manuscript; and 2 works for tape, S.P.I.