CMC BC exists to champion our composers, foster the next generation of music and sound creators, and to act as a resource centre, sharing everything we have with the new music ecosystem of the province that brings our composer’s music to life. As our programs have evolved over the past few years, here is [...]
BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, Sean Bickerton, will present What Is Music? as part of Capilano University’s Re-Sounding Music lecture series on Friday, January 30, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the BlueShore Financial Centre for Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver). Music moves us more deeply than any other [...]
CMC BC is excited to launch Frozen Light, an exhibition of photography, a video installation, and a new eponymous composition by Jordan Nobles. The exhibition runs Tuesday, November 25 through December 5 in our Murray Adaskin Salon, and is open to the public from 1pm - 4:30 pm weekdays. Frozen Light is a photographic [...]
To everyone who has presented, performed, taught, studied, or composed Canadian music and sound over the past year; to everyone who has donated what they can to help support the Canadian Music Centre BC; to all those organizations and ensembles and practitioners we have collaborated with over the past season. Thank You! “Ars longa, vita [...]
CMC BC has been busier this season than ever before, sponsoring concerts of music by BC composers, presenting awards and scholarships, hosting events and Artists in Residence, and engaging with our community around the province. Performances We have sponsored ten performances since January, including Standing Wave’s Compocon on February 24, where Sean presented the ensemble [...]
Dear Sean, Thank you for the letter that arrived by snail mail today. I wanted to tell you how delighted I was to read your article Before The First Note Is Played, in which you describe the experience of hearing the National Youth Orchestra performing Schafer’s North/White at the Orpheum in 1973. Photo: Takumi [...]
CMC Canada and CMC BC are co-presenting this year's JUNOfest Classical Showcase, hosted by Gloria Macarenko, on Saturday, March 29, at 1pm in the CBC's Studio 700 at 700 Hamilton Street in Vancouver, featuring a star-studded lineup of Canadian composition and vocal talent, including: The Canadian Art Song Project with Jonelle Sills (soprano) and [...]
On Friday, February 7, at Composium, I had the pleasure of presenting CMC BC scholarships worth a total of $5,000 to three students at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts Music & Sound program. Each year we present these scholarships to students at a different BC university with a graduate program in composition. The [...]
I remember the very first time I heard a composition by a Canadian composer. Do you? I’ll never forget it. For me, the first time was the National Youth Orchestra performing R. Murray Schafer’s North/White at the Orpheum Theatre in 1973. It electrified me. The eery stillness of the arctic. The still beauty. The [...]
This is a love letter. To thank all of you who create new music in BC, those who perform and present it, and to all those large enough of spirit and generous enough of nature to support those creators and practitioners and presenters that do. "When words leave off, music begins.” (Heinrich Heine) The only [...]