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Note The Toronto Symphony Orchestra will be opening their 2009/10 season with Frenergy September 24, 26 . Conductor Peter Oundjian will also be performing Frenergy with the St. Louis Symphony in December.
Note The All Eastern Division Orchestra and conductor Alexander Jimenez recently performed Frenergy. Here is a video of their performance.
Note The Victoria Symphony and conductor Tania Miller recently premiered Triptych, Sinfonietta for Orchestra, in Victoria B.C..
Note Eulogies received two performances by two seperate choirs in Edmonton. Both Da Camera and i Coristi performed Eulogies. Da Camera will be issuing a CD featuring several choral compositions including Eulogies.
Note The Secret of the Nutcracker recently aired on CBC. John received the 2008 AMPIA Award for Best Original Music in a Drama for his work on The Secret of the Nutcracker.
Note Recent performances include The Houses Stand Not Far Apart, performed by the Grand Philharmonic and the K-W Symphony, and by the Orpheus Choir and Chorus Niagara with the Talisker Players in Toronto and St. Catharines. Other recent performances include Springs Promise by the Winnipeg Symphony and by the Tulsa Symphony, Frenergy and The Twins and the Monster by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Borealis by the International Orchestra.
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 were also performed by soprano Inger Dam-Jensen with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
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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.

***Recently updated: Upcoming for  future performances and List of Works for audio clips and information about his compositions.