Janet Hammock, composer and pianist, was born in 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She holds an Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto, and both Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University. She has studied music at the Banff School of Fine Arts, in New York City on a Canada Council Grant, and at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. Her performances of solo and collaborative piano music have been presented across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. She has often commissioned other Canadian composers, including, most recently, Michael Miller, Ann Southam and Alasdair MacLean, to write works for her to premiere. Her recitals are broadcast frequently by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and by Radio Canada. > >Janet has taught at the university level for the past 31 years and is a Professor of Music at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. She will be taking an early retirement this spring from university teaching in order to spend as much time as possible working to develop her creative ideas in composition. > >Pauline Oliveros has long been an influence on Janet's creative work since their first meeting in the mid-60's. Since that time, she has taken workshops with Oliveros in Newfoundland while at Sound Symposium, and recently completed three Deep Listening Retreats with Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold at Rose Mountain, New Mexico. Three years ago she created and began teaching a university course designed for both music and non-music majors - Sonic Explorations - which is rooted in the practice of Deep Listening. As a Certified Deep Listening Practitioner, Janet presents lectures, demonstrations and workshops in which Deep Listening strategies are skillfully adapted to specific groups of individuals in various professions and life stages.

Dr. Janet Hammock
Professor Department of Music
Mount Allison University
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