Derek Charke

Derek Charke is a JUNO and four-time ECMA award-winning composer, flutist and educator. Equally at home performing cutting-edge contemporary music or participating in free improvisation as he is performing Bach or Vivaldi, he actively performs as a soloist, new music improviser and chamber musician. He performs with guitarist Eugene Cormier in the Charke~Cormier Duo and appears on a number of award-winning CDs, including: Ex Tempore, Kitchen Party, In Sonorous Falling Tones, Bathymetric Terrains, and The Equation of Time. Derek is a professor of music at Acadia University where he teaches composition and music theory. He also heads AEMS (the Acadia Electroacoustic Music Studio). Derek was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and is of British, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh heritage.