CMC BC Presents An Evening With Colin Miles
Tuesday, April 25, from 5:30 – 7pm
Murray Adaskin Salon
837 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC
The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to invite you to a special Evening with Colin Miles, a beloved musician and former BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre. Please join us for this free event, a celebration of Colin’s remarkable life and musical legacy. Refreshments will be provided.
Colin will be interviewed about highlights from his career by Vancouver Art Gallery Music Programmer, composer, and violinist Jack Campbell, who has recently completed documenting a series of interviews he conducted with Colin over the past year into a 50-page Memoir of Colin’s life in music.
That memoir, which explores Colin’s unique involvement in and contribution to the musical life of our city, will be officially entered into our Digital Archive that day and be available for online perusal.
Colin’s musical role has been as varied as assisting R. Murray Schafer in the first year of the World Soundscape Project to serving as spokesman for the committee that saved the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.
Colin was close to Barbara Pentland, Jean Coulthard, Murray Adaskin, and many of this country’s leading composers during the thirty years he served as the CMC Director in BC. And was instrumental in bringing CMC BC downtown to its new space in 2001, as well as the subsequent purchase of Murray Adaskin’s 1960 Heintzman Salon Grand Piano.
His role in the musical life of this city has been as varied as assisting R. Murray Schafer in the first year of the World Soundscape Project to serving as spokesman for the committee that saved the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.
Colin Miles also spearheaded the campaign to save the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, and although that effort ultimately proved unable to change the CBC’s decision, he was given the Mayor of Vancouver’s Arts Award for Music in 2009 for that work, his help in saving the opera orchestra, and his passion as a champion of Canadian composers.