Esther Wheaton graduated this year with her Honours Bachelor of Music in Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University. There she studied composition with Linda Catlin Smith and Peter Hatch, oboe with Richard Dorsey, took all the Theory and English she could fit into her schedule, and improvised with both the Improvisation Concert Ensemble (ICE) and the Free Improvisation Renegade Ensemble (FIRE). She has had works read by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Penderecki String Quartet and performed by the Schweigen Trio, the Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony Orchestra, and by many of her fellow students in concerts and recitals.
Esther is primarily an acoustic composer with fixations on canon, folk song, words, colour, the internet, and human error. She loves 20th and 21st Century music (particularly minimalism and post-minimalism) and Renaissance music. She is also a fan of much independent rock, pop, and folk.
Esther Wheaton
In addition to composing, Esther draws the webcomic Obohemia, makes oboe reeds (and sometimes plays them), works in the Marketing Department at the KWS, and hopes to attend graduate school in the near future.
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