Duncan McFarlane

Duncan McFarlane holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he studied with Guggenheim Fellow and Griffin Award-winning poet A. F. Moritz, and Governor-General’s Award and Giller Award winner and librettist André Alexis. In 2015-2017 he was a librettist Fellow at The American Opera Project’s two-year opera creation program in New York City, where he studied with Tony-, Grammy-, and Oscar-winner Stephen Schwartz and Pulitzer-winning librettist Mark Campbell. He has created text for art song, chamber music, and opera, including 'Terror & Erebus' with composer Cecilia Livingston, co-commissioned by Toronto's Opera 5 and TorQ Percussion Quartet.