The Victoria Conservatory of Music's Composer collective, started by Stephen Brown, is back, sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre's Victoria Creative Hub! The new iteration of the collective will be hosted by composer Christopher Reiche Boucher, CMC's Victoria Engagement Leader. Christopher is dedicated to maintaining Brown's original concept for the collective as a place for [...]
Vancouver’s Chor Leoni Men's Choir and Artistic Director Erick Lichte announced the three finalists of their national 2018 Canadian Choral Composition Competition (C/4). “We are thrilled to bring back our C/4 composition competition,” says Lichte. “This initiative allows Chor Leoni to connect with three new-to-us composers in an extraordinary way and also allows us to [...]
The world has only ever known one Leonard Bernstein. And any orchestra today would give their eyeteeth to find another. Yet that is exactly what the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has had, and indeed what the entire nation of Canada has been fortunate to have ever since Maestro Bramwell Tovey first moved to this country in 1989. [...]
We asked George Laverock, who knew Hugh Davidson well, if he would write an article about Hugh's unique contribution to musical life in light of the Vancouver Symphony's upcoming premiere of Marcus Goddard's Violin Concerto, which was commissioned with support from the recently launched Hugh Davidson Fund at the Victoria Foundation: ---------------------------------------- A long-time volunteer [...]
It may be hard to believe, but here we are in December, and already halfway through the Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series' second season. So far, we have enjoyed three fabulous, sold-out concerts featuring the music of Lloyd Burritt, Jean Ethridge, and Hubert Klyne Headley. Our immersive, single-composer concert experience allows audiences to enjoy a [...]
Dear Creators, Music-makers, Innovators, Poets, Lyricists, Those with Song In Their Hearts, Those That Listen With Ardour, Enthusiasts of Euterpe, and Cohorts of Calliope: Thank you for all of the joy, meaning, insight, catharsis, excitement, emotion, surprise, delight, happiness, sorrow, and deep connection that you have given us this past year! Hoping the year's shortest [...]
On Friday, Nov 10, CMC BC celebrated our 40th Anniversary with a Gala Open House from 5 – 7pm at our Vancouver Creative Hub. Performances included the premiere of a new 40-second CMC Fanfare for trumpet written by Robert McKenzie and performed by Vincent Vohradsky, Second Trumpet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. And Erato Ensemble performed three [...]
Flutist Kathryn Cernauskas has been a champion of Canadian music her entire life. She has personally premiered more than 100 Canadian compositions as well as recording a solo CD of Canadian music for flute, and is a composer of more than a dozen pieces of music herself. As head of Avondale Press (now part of the [...]
Dear Friends, Like you, we believe the world needs Canadian culture more today than at any time in its past. We believe that young people deserve to learn how to express themselves and tell their own stories through music. And we believe in providing opportunities to support emerging composers; while championing those at the peak [...]
Canada Music Week is a nation-wide celebration of Canadian composers and their music established by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations in 1960 to commemorate their 25th Anniversary. It takes place each year in the third week of November in order to include November 22, dedicated to St. Cecilia, Patron Saint of Music. To celebrate Canada Music Week [...]