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Selected Performances
2011
Solo Piano Unit Control Unit Unit, Vancouver Noisefest
Femke van Delft + Dave Chokroun: Playing War Games, LIVE Biennale, Vancouver
Robots on Fire, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver
Lori Hamar: Bloodline, NW New Works Festival, Seattle
2010
Monk’s Dream Trio, Vancouver Jazz Festival
The Unsupervised, Vancouver Jazz Festival
The Sorrow and the Pity, Fake Jazz Festival, Western Front, Vancouver
2009
Stefan Smulovitz: Mad Scientist Machine, NOW Orchestra, Vancouver
Twenteenth, Western Front, Vancouver
Bruce Freedman Group, Vancouver Jazz Festival
Jandek, Victoria Event Centre, Victoria
2008:
Rachael Wadham + Tripod Dance: Mating Habits of the Bowerbird, Open Space, Victoria
Robots on Fire + Mats Gustafsson, Cobalt, Vancouver
This Music + improvisations, Western Front, Vancouver
2007
pppoetry band (sic): FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery
Robots on Fire + Han Bennink + Eugene Chadbourne, Cobalt, Vancouver
More antimatter! More antimatter! neither/nor composers’ collective, “failure,” Queen West Arts Centre, Toronto
Robots on Fire, NOW on Monday Nights, Cellar Jazz Club, Vancouver
Nada, NOW on Monday Nights, Cellar Jazz Club, Vancouver
2006
6785, Victoria Noise! Festival, Open Space, Victoria
The Pivot, Raw and Cooked, Western Front, Vancouver
Nada and the Pivot, Lasqueti Hall, Lasqueti Isl.
Nada and the Pivot, Fascinating Rhythm, Nanaimo
2005
Apthsmthb, neither/nor composers’ collective, “obscurity,” Darling Building, Toronto
Ellen Fullman collaborative residency, Open Space, Victoria
Basic Readings on the MMPI, Fifty Fifty Gallery, Victoria
Ken Hall Group, Victoria Folk Festival
2004
Afghan civilian casualties Oct 7-Dec 10, 2001 / Get out of the kitchen, nach Hause, Stride Gallery, Calgary
Tripod Dance: Spur, Linda Raino Dance Studio, Victoria
2003
Robots on Fire, Art Gallery of Calgary
2002
Robots on Fire, Open Space, Victoria
Sanzunokawa, Open Space, Victoria
2001
Chocomo Sound System, Victoria Ska Fest
1996-2000
James Tenney: Critical Band, York Performance Ensemble, Toronto
Ting Hong / Dave Chokroun / John Lennard, Do What? festival, Toronto
Fred Frith and the Toronto Island Players, Toronto
Braino / Fell Gang / Godspeed you black emperor!, Canzine 1997, Toronto
Improvised music performances with Braino, Darren Williams, Dan Friedman, Ballpeen, Mark Hundevad’s Spiritual Alignment Ensemble, Sook-Yin Lee, Glen Hall, Dave Clark, Myk Freedman’s Saint Dirt Elementary School, Spock’s Coffin, Jeremy Finkelstein, Gordon “Elwood Epps” Allen, Catalyst Collective and many others at the Idler Improvisers’ Series, Oasis, CIUT 89.5, Victory Ulterior series, Rat-Drifting, Music Gallery, Cameron House, and other locations.
Selected Discography
Jandek. Victoria Wednesday. Corwood Industries, Houston, 2012.
Dave Ito Chokroun. A Hammer in Perpetual Motion / The Keyboard is the World. Advanced Musical Research, Vancouver, 2011.
The Sorrow and the Pity. How Many is That? Soldier Pumps, Vancouver, 2010.
The Sorrow and the Pity. The Sorrow and the Pity. Oscillation of Pressure, Vancouver, 2010.
Dave Ito Chokroun. More Antimatter! Newfangled Album Records, Toronto, 2009.
Books and Branches. Caribou Whispers. Independent, Vancouver, 2009.
Sandbox. The Nudger. NOW Orchestra Records, Vancouver, 2009.
Bruce Freedman African Groove Band. Live at the Cellar. NOW Orchestra Records, Vancouver, 2008.
The Pivot. The Pivot. Independent, Vancouver, 2006.
Nada. Nada. Advanced Musical Research, Vancouver, 2006.
V / A. Victoria Free Box. Independent, Victoria, 2005.
Dave Ito Chokroun. Foreman vs. Foreman. Independent, Toronto, 2001.
Braino. Braino. Brain Song, Toronto, 1998.
V / A. True Independence II. Dumb Drum, Toronto, 1995.
V / A. Fuck the Commonwealth 2. Fans of Bad Productions, Victoria, 1995.
Education and awards
2011: Master of Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
2009: SSHRC Bombardier Masters’ Scholarship, Simon Fraser University
2008: C.D. Nelson Scholarship, Simon Fraser University
2006: Vancouver New Music workshop performances: Cornelius Cardew, Treatise; John Cage, Atlas Eclipticalis
2005 – 2006: Vancouver Creative Music Institute
2003: Bachelor of Music (Composition) with distinction, University of Victoria
2002: Arraymusic Young Composers’ Workshop, Toronto
1998-2000: School of Music, York University, Toronto
1993: Associateship Diploma (Piano Performance), Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
