An active figure on the Vancouver new music scene, John Oliver cumulates credits as a composer of chamber, orchestral, and electroacoustic works, to which we must add his electric guitar playing and his duties as co-founder of the record label/production company/webzine Earsay Productions. He released his first studio album in 1998 and is a member of the performing duo Structural Damage.
Oliver studied composition with John Adams and guitar with George Sakellariou at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before moving to Montreal where he studied at McGill University for...