2013 | Classical Composition of the Year | Alexina Louie | | The JUNO Awards

Alexina Louie is a multiple JUNO award winner. Her desire for self-expression, her recognizable sound world, as well as her explorations of Asian music, art, and philosophy have contributed to the development of her unique voice. While her music is expressive and communicative, it is highly dramatic and pushes the boundaries of convention and tradition.

She has composed music for soloists, ensembles, orchestras, as well as for television, dance, and film. Conductors of her music include Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Kent Nagano, Charles Dutoit, Peter Oundjian, Pinchas Zukerman and Bramwell Tovey among others.

She has received many commissions, awards, and prizes and is one of the most in demand composers in Canada. Burnt Toast, the ground-breaking made-for-TV domestic comic opera she created in collaboration with librettist Dan Redican and director Larry Weinstein, was awarded the Grand Prix at the prestigious 43rd Golden Prague Film Festival (2006). Her opera, The Scarlet Princess, was created with Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and was presented in concert by The Canadian Opera Company in 2002.

Louie was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006.

This is her ninth JUNO nomination.