Sean Bickerton

BC Director

Sean Bickerton is the BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, Past Chair of the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, teaches at Capilano University’s Department of Arts & Entertainment Management, and is a member of the Hugh Davidson Fund Committee of the Victoria Foundation.

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He was previously Executive Director of the Vancouver Recital Society, a Vice President of Columbia Artists Management in New York, and studied violin performance at the University of Victoria.

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Away from work he writes fiction and paints on Coast Salish Territory. He is married to Tom, and his pronouns are he / him / his.

Heather Molloy

Manager, Office and Library Services

Heather has been a member of the CMC since 2006 and joined BC’s Theatre Attendant program in 2017. Now she is excited to become the new manager of office and library Services here in BC.

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As a performer, as well as an ardent advocate for new music, Heather has appeared with opera companies across Canada including Pacific Opera Victoria, Calgary Opera, City Opera Vancouver, Vancouver Opera and Re:Naissance Opera.

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Heather Molloy holds a Masters Degree in Opera Performance from the University of British Columbia and a certificate in Deaf Studies from Vancouver Community College. She is looking forward to contributing her experience and is deeply committed to the CMC mandate of community, equity, and inclusion.

Jordan Nobles

Digital Content Producer

JUNO award-winning composer Jordan Nobles is known for creating music filled with an “unearthly beauty” (Mondomagazine) that makes listeners want to “close (their) eyes and transcend into a cloud of music” (Discorder Magazine). Jordan has won numerous awards throughout his career including the prestigious Azrieli Music Prize (2024), a JUNO Award (2017), a Western Canadian Music Award (2018), the International Composition Competition of the Unbound Flute Festival (Brisbane, Australia 2016), the Sacra/Profana (San Diego 2013), Vancouver Bach Choir (Vancouver 2008), and Polyphonos (Seattle 2011) International Composition Competitions. He placed 2nd in the International Soli fan tutti Kompositionswettbewerbs in Darmstadt, Germany and was a finalist in the C4 Choir Composition Competition in New York.

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In 2017, Jordan was the recipient of the Jan V. Matejcek Award from SOCAN in recognition of “overall success in ‘New Classical Music”.
He lives in Deep Cove, BC with his wife Kelly, and child Julian. www.jordannobles.com

Ramsey Sadaka

Library Assistant

Ramsey Sadaka is a Vancouver-based musician and educator, as well as the secretary for the Vancouver Pro Musica. His compositional practice filters literary inspirations to create music that is colourful, intimate, and finely-sculpted.

Ramsey’s music has been performed internationally at many prestigious new music festivals, including New Music on The Point, the Sonic Boom Festival, the highSCORE New Music Festival, and the Dutch Harp Festival. He has collaborated with such musical luminaries as soprano Estelí Gomez, flutists Paolo Bortolussi and Mark Takeshi McGregor, members of the JACK Quartet, El Cimarrón Ensemble, Die Blechzinnen, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Nu:BC Collective, the Quartetto Indaco, the Turning Point Ensemble, the Chamber Brewsensemble, the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble, and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. His work has also been generously funded by the University of Alberta’s Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies; the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration Project; the Johnstone Fund for New Music; and the University of British Columbia’s Belkin Art Gallery.

Ramsey recently completed a doctorate in music composition at the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith Hamel and Dorothy Chang, and served as a teaching assistant for the university’s Contemporary Players ensemble

William Orr

Curator of Digital Archive

William Orr studied Medicine at the University of Alberta, Columbia University in New York and the University of Connecticut. He practiced surgical pathology and directed a research program on the biology of cancer metastasis, working at both McMaster University and the University of Manitoba where he was Head of the Department of Pathology.

Bill has had a long-term interest in medical education and international medical exchange and represented the University of Manitoba as medical educators at two universities in China with his wife, Dr. Lorna Grant.

Music has always played an important role in Bill’s life — music lessons were mandatory in his family — and he has a daughter who is a professional musician: “I see the composition of new musical ideas as representing one of the highest forms of human creativity. Through my work on the archives, it’s a great privilege to be able to document the important contribution of our composers to Canada’s cultural fabric.”

Greg Soone

Archive Information Architect

After graduating with an MBA from the University of Washington, Greg Soone held positions in information technology at several insurance companies. He was able to leverage this experience (well, more like trial-and-error) to develop the technical foundation of the digital archive: “Collaborating with Bill and other volunteers to build the archive instilled within us a wonderful esprit de corps.”

Though Greg has no musical background, he is an avid listener, especially concerning jazz from the fifties and sixties. He swears by his decidedly analog turntable and vinyl record collection. In his early years he roamed the world as a street photographer and worked as a volunteer and administrator for an Asian American community arts organization in San Francisco.

CMC BC collaborates with arts organizations, performers, schools, conductors and educators throughout the province of BC in a multitude of ways, seeking to foster performance and educational opportunities for Canadian music.

Our Vancouver and Victoria Creative Hubs are used by countless community organizations for public performances, rehearsals, workshops, lectures, meetings, film showings, conferences, and strategic planning sessions.

CMC BC’s Community Partner Program recognizes the importance of these symbiotic relationships to the vibrancy of Canadian music in the province, and ensures Community Partners can utilize our spaces on an affordable basis.

CMC BC is proud to recognize Community Partnerships with AstroLabe Musik, BC Registered Music Teachers Association, Cor Flammae, City Opera Vancouver, Erato Ensemble, Kiwanis Music Festival, Pro Musica, Queer Arts Festival, re:Naissance Opera, St. James Music Academy, Vancouver Early Music, (Art) Song Lab, Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI), Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival and Victoria Conservatory of Music.

C-PAC

C-PAC is the official paper supplier to the Canadian Music Centre in BC. C-PAC’s tagline is ‘We Make Business Easy’, and we are extremely grateful for their generous support of Canadian music and culture. C-PAC is the exclusive provider of paper products to our exclusive, specialized music print and bind service, one of the best in North America. C-PAC are Canadian retail distribution and merchandising experts for consumer electronics, accessories, POS supplies, labels, food packaging, digital papers and more. (604) 322-9003.

CBC Vancouver

CBC Vancouver kindly donated their compact movable shelving system to CMC BC along with an important collection of scores and parts commissioned over the years by the CBC Chamber Orchestra.

KultureShock.Net

KultureShock.Net is a website service for more than 160 leading performing artists, ensembles and agencies. KultureShock.Net is also the official online partner for CMC BC, creating, hosting and maintaining this website for us as their contribution to the Canadian Music Centre, which is deeply appreciated.