{"id":8581,"date":"2020-12-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/?post_type=portfolio_item&#038;p=8581"},"modified":"2021-11-10T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:42:02","slug":"darren-young","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/project\/darren-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 27, 2020<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ASYLUMforART<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Darren Young<br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Winter Solace - Darren Young\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/495013655?h=a22ddf8928&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"930\" height=\"523\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multi-instrumentalist, composer, music director, and educator&nbsp;<strong>Darren Young<\/strong>&nbsp;is an exciting artist with a diverse palette. His music spans a wide array of genres,&nbsp;including classical, post rock, prog, shoegaze, electronic, noise, and jazz. A classically trained guitarist and double bassist, Darren\u2019s music has received&nbsp;international press coverage from Prog Magazine, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock Magazine, and the CBC.<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">Darren\u2019s busy concert schedule has taken him across Canada, the UK, US, and France. He has been a featured performer with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra,&nbsp;New Music Edmonton, New Works Calgary, Kensington Sinfonia, Instrumental Society of Calgary, and Calgary ProArts Society. A passionate advocate of new&nbsp;music, Darren is a core member of the experimental music collective Timepoint Ensemble and with them has given premieres of many new compositions. He also&nbsp;performs and records regularly as a member of the bands Diatessaron, Jung People, Evan Freeman, and Lucky Sonne.<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">Recent compositions by Darren include \u201cPARTNERS\u201d, a 50-minute song cycle for 12 musicians, comprised of short, character-based fragments that explore&nbsp;different aspects of human interaction and connectivity. \u201cPARTNERS\u201d was written for Diatessaron &amp; Timepoint Ensemble and had its debut performance in&nbsp;February 2018 as part of the 2017-18 Timepoint Ensemble Season. Darren also created the music for \u201cKnow The Rules, Win The Game\u201d (Cloudsway Dance&nbsp;Theatre), which premiered at the CanAsian Dance Festival in Toronto, ON (September 2018), and incidental music for \u201c8-Bit: The Video Game Dance Show\u201d&nbsp;(Cloudsway Dance Theatre, April 2019).<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">In 2015 Darren co-wrote the soundtrack to the film \u201cEmpyrean\u201d with his band Jung People, for which they won an AMPIA Award for Best Original Score (Drama,&nbsp;Over 30 Minutes). The film premiered at the 2015 Calgary International Film Festival, and the soundtrack was officially released in September 2017.<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\">Darren is the President of the Classical Guitar Society of Calgary, an organization that promotes guitar and arts education, and brings internationally acclaimed&nbsp;classical guitarists to Calgary for concerts and Masterclasses. He has twice attended the prestigious Aspen Music Festival and School, holds degrees in performance&nbsp;from the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto, and is currently on faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory in Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performers Multi-instrumentalist, composer, music director, and educator&nbsp;Darren Young&nbsp;is an exciting artist with a diverse palette. His music spans a wide array of genres,&nbsp;including classical, post rock, prog, shoegaze, electronic, noise, and jazz. A classically trained guitarist and double bassist, Darren\u2019s music has received&nbsp;international press coverage from Prog Magazine, Metal Hammer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"portfolio":[57,72],"class_list":["post-8581","portfolio_item","type-portfolio_item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-asylumforart-live","portfolio-winter-solace"],"acf":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item\/8581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item\/8581\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asylumforart.ca\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}