Patrick McGraw  

Composer

Patrick McGraw is a Toronto-based composer of contemporary concert music. An early interest in the sciences led him to a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology before he turned his main focus to his other great love.  His music occasionally draws direct inspiration from his physics background, but more often the influence is subtle, reflected in a concern with the relationship between abstract and sensual forms of beauty; between music's underlying logic and the jagged contingency of its realization.

NEWS

8/25/2018:  Wrapping up a busy summer that included world premieres of "(Spooky actions) at a distance" for tenor sax, cello, piano and electronics by Thin Edge New Music Collective, "The Butterfly Effect" for flute, electronics and video by Amanda Lowry, "Playground No. 1" for horn, live electronics and live video by Micajah Sturgess (supported by the Toronto Arts Council) and "City" with text by mia susan amir, performed at Art Song Lab by Will George and Marguerite Witvoet.  "A Force of Nature" for trumpet, electronics and video was also performed at the Mise-en music festival in New York by Hugh Ash.  

Currently completing "Sinfonia, 2018" for wind ensemble and eagerly looking forward to beginning a new work for Blythwood Winds to be presented by Caution Tape Sound Collective in 2019.