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Mark Morris is a
sessional instructor in the English Department of the University of
Alberta at Edmonton, Alberta. His BA/MA was from Oxford; his PhD. from the
University of Calgary was the first in English in Canada with a Creative
Writing thesis. He has also taught at the University of Calgary, the Banff
Centre, and the Welsh College of Music and Drama, as well as running
evening classes in his home town of Wetaskiwin, Alberta, where he lives in
one of Alberta's oldest houses, now a listed Historic Site.
He is one of Canada's leading librettists (someone who writes the words
for operas), and is co-founder and Artistic Director of KidsOp, the
international award-winning company that creates new operas for children
and adults to perform together. His work has been seen and heard in
Canada, the USA, Ireland, Wales, England, Sweden, Germany,
Mexico and South
Africa, with Italy shortly to follow. Details at www.kidsop.com.
He has written two books, the first on the change from Anglo-Saxon to
Norman England, the second a massive survey of the music of 20th-Century
composers, now published as The
Pimlico Dictionary of 20th-Century Composers.
He has written for publications on four continents, from the Japanese Esquire
to the oldest newspaper in the States, Y Drych, and regularly
appears on CBC radio talking about operas.
You can e-mail him by clicking here
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