Don has been writing and improvising music his whole career. He became an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 2003 and was president of the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society for fifteen years. He particularly likes working with dancers and poets and has collaborated many times with Mile Zero Dance.

Don and Gerry Morita in Churchill Square. Photo by Tracy Kolenchuk
Playing Don's piece We Hum with Allison Balcetis
Playing Don's setting of John Yau's Borrowed Love Poems with Eryn Tempest at the Works Festival of Art and Design
Free improv with Billie Zizi over Don's backing track based on Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 That time of Year
Don and Devi '22 music by Don choreography by Deviani Andrea