CURRICULUM VITAE - RON HANNAH
Birth: December l4, l945--Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
E-mail: ron.hannah1@gmail.com
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NATIONALITY
Canadian
EDUCATION
University of Alberta
- B.Sc. (1969) Chemistry
- B.Mus. (1973) Music Theory and Composition
- M.Mus. (1975) Music Composition
- Education Diploma (1980)
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (1997)
- Several short courses in computer networking
AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES (creative):
2006 - Published travel writer: see http://www.escapeartist.com/ (Enter "hannah" in the search box on the home page)
- PRO Canada (now SOCAN) from l972 to present
- Member of Da Camera Singers from l973 to 1998.
- Sessional Instructor with Dept. of Extension, University of Alberta, l975/6
- Instructor of Harmony and Ear Training, Red Deer College, l977/8
- Founding member of Alberta Composers' Association, 1977
- Treasurer of Alberta Composers' Association l977/78 and l980/81
- Founding president of Edmonton Composers' Concert Society, and current member
- Editor of ECCS newsletter from 1985 to 1996
- Founder and owner of Composer Publications, Edmonton, 1989 to 2000
- Co-founder of Edmonton New Music Festival, 1992
- Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre from April 1993 to present
- Editor of and contributor to "The Albertan Composer", 1994/96
- Editor of "The Alberta New Music Review", 1997
- Entry in "International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory", Vol. 14
- "Five Preludes for Organ" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD, Northern
Arch/Arc du Nord (Spring/94)
- "Concert Piece" for flute and piano recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society
CD, soundland alberta: le pays sonore (1996)
- "Meditation for Cello and Piano" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD,
Brief Confessions (1997)
- "String Quartet #1" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert
Society CD, Stringtime (performed by the Penderecki String Quartet)
- "Piano Sonata #1 (Visions of Nothingness)" recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert
Society CD, Visions of Nothingness (performed by Roger Admiral)
- "Ballade" for piano solo, recorded on Edmonton Composers' Concert Society CD,
ECCSpressions, (performed by Sylvia Shadick-Taylor)
- Arrangements of rock songs on Vitamin Records CDs: (see * below)
"The String Quartet Tribute to R.E.M."
"The String Quartet Tribute to Led Zeppelin"
"Strung Out on U2"
"Strung Out on Jagged Little Pill"
- Adjudicator of Olds & District Kiwanis Festival (Creative Music section), Olds,
Alberta, March, 2001.
- Author of Vietnam travelogue published on http://www.escapeartist.com, Aug. 2006
- Musical compositions published by Conners Publications, Natchitoches, LA, USA; and
Grace Under Press, Toronto, Canada
- Music commissions from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Alberta Choral Federation,
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, among others.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2004-2005 - ESL teacher and dining-room pianist for Guan Fang Hotel, Li Jiang, Yunnan
Province, China
2003 - Teacher with Sino-Canadian Education Centre, Suchow University, Suzhou,
JiangSu Province, China: Instructor of English as a Second Language and Microsoft Word
and Excel.
2000-2002 - Substitute teacher with Saanich School Board, Victoria, Canada
1998-2000 - Free-lance web designer
1980-1997 Teacher/Edmonton Public Schools, Edmonton, Alberta - teacher of Elementary
school music, science, mathematics, English, Art
Pre-1980 - Private students in piano, theory and composition
GENERAL EXPERIENCE
Use of database, desktop publishing and spreadsheet programs in personal life and for
professional purposes
Familiar with Atari ST, PC DOS, Windows, and Macintosh OSX
Have maintained a 3-computer ethernet Windows NT network at home
Designer of World Wide Web pages (all graphics self-created):
- http://www.composers21.com (The Living Composers Project)
- http://www.eccsociety.com/hannah (This site)
- http://www.cct-cce.com (Canadian College of Teachers)
- http://www.connect.ab.ca/~sandrag (Sandra Gray School of Dancing, Edmonton, Alberta)
- http://www.kaqchikeltours.com (Touring company in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala)
Personal programming - once wrote a utility that strips extraneous
code from Atari ST files, leaving clean text behind; have created
Java applets such as "Find Your Instrument or Voice" on the homepage
of this site.
INTERESTS
Music (composer and collector of modern CDs)
Reading (classics, biography, history)
Astronomy (former owner of 4.5" newtonian reflecting telescope)
Travel - backpacking in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, China, Indonesia and
Malaysia; crossing Australia in a camper van; residence for a year in England and
travels in the USA and in W.Europe. Presently resident in Guatemala.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PERSONAL QUALITIES
- Very versatile and intuitive, with innate curiosity and desire to understand
- Professional work ethic, gaining personal satisfaction from sense of accomplishment
- Excellent research and analytical skills / Able to find information to solve problems
- Very thorough in problem-solving and troubleshooting, through good listening and
observation skills
- Exceptional organizational skills, proved through published musical compositions
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
- Good questioning and paraphrasing abilities
- Able to explain complex technical information to non-technical people
- Can handle a multitude of tasks simultaneously in a pressured environment
- Excellent writer and speller - writer of articles and reviews for The Alberta New
Music Review (http://www.eccsociety.com) and travel publications on http://
www.escapeartist.com
- Prefer a simple, quiet lifestyle and have few needs
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent health
- Typing speed 85 wpm
( * Please do not purchase CDs from Vitamin Records in Los Angeles.
They sell a series of albums of String Quartet tributes to various
Rock and Pop artists.
They are several years behind in royalty payments with me and do not
respond to my letters or emails, nor to my lawyer's letters. I do
not know how many other composer/arrangers they have treated in this
shabby manner.)
