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Note John is the recipient of the 2008 AMPIA Award for Best Original Music in a Drama for the film The Secret of the Nutcracer. The "Rosies" as they are affectionately known, were handed out in several categories on April 26. The Secret of the Nutcracer will be seen in theatres and television during the Christmas holiday season.
Note The Youth Orchestra of the Americas will perform Bootlegger's Tarantella at the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Medellin, Colombia, on June 1 2008. Other upcoming engagements include a performance of Light Eternal with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra June 6 and 7.
Note Ben Heppner recently performed Estacio's arrangement of Seven Songs by Jean Sibelius with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Barbican in London and at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Some of Estacio's Sibelius arrangements will be performed this spring by soprano Inger Dam-Jensen with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra in Sweden May 10, 2008.
Note His cantata, The Houses Stand Not Far Apart, recently premiered in Edmonton and Vancouver and will be performed in Kitchener, Toronto, and St. Catharines later this year. An aria from his opera Filumena was recently performed at the Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala in Ottawa on May 3, while the Regina Symphony performed Bootlegger's Tarantella that same evening. The Fort Wayne Philharmonic recently performed Spring's Promise in Indiana.
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Filumena, Estacio and Murrell's first opera, is now available on DVD. Click on Filumena for more information about the opera and how to get a copy of the DVD.

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