Ever since its founding, Vancouver has been a brash city of big dreams, rough ambition, and industrial sounds — a noisy, sprawling brat of a frontier town. It’s fitting we mark noon every day with the triumphal blast of a ship’s horn, and sound the “all’s well” at nine o’clock every night with the boom [...]
Photo: Diane Park, Rachel Rose, Heather Pawsey, Jeffrey Ryan, and Maggie MacPherson (Credit: Tom Hudock) Last Friday, March 23, CMC BC and AstroLabe Musik Theatre co-presented a tour-de-force one-woman show by Soprano Heather Pawsey that was both hauntingly beautiful and profoundly moving. The program centred around the Vancouver premier of Jeffrey Ryan's Unheard based on poetry by [...]
On Saturday afternoon, March 24, the CMC and CBC co-presented the JUNOs Classical Showcase in CBC Vancouver's Studio One at 700 Hamilton Street. Featuring jaw-droppingly great performances by Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, Pianist Jan Lisiecki, Tiresias Duo (Rachel Iwaasa & Mark McGregor), Bass-Baritone Philippe Sly, and ARC Ensemble among other remarkable artists, the concert was produced by [...]
Leslie Uyeda, Composer By Janet Danielson as if everything she has ever been begins, inside, to sing. — Lorna Crozier, from “A Summer’s Singing,” in Everything Arrives At The Light (McClelland and Stewart, 1995) Leslie Uyeda has made an enormous contribution to the musical life of Vancouver as pianist, vocal coach, conductor, music director, and [...]
From left to right: Rodney Sharman, CMC BC Head Librarian Stefan Hintersteininger, Jocelyn Morlock, James Carter, Chor Leoni Artistic Director Erick Lichte, First Prize winner Marie-Claire Saindon, Second Prize winner Benjamin Bolden, Third Prize winner Gerda Blok-Wilson. Photo credit: Phil Jack, Chor Leoni. "Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold" (in Shakespeare's words) was not [...]
From left to right: Ramsey Sadaka, Thomas Beckman, Carolyn Quick, Jaelem Bhate, Jocelyn Morlock, Matthieu Foresi, William Rowson, D.I. Danny Choi. Photo credit: Matthew Baird, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. On Monday, February 18, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor William Rowson, and Composer-in-Residence Jocelyn Morlock presented the 2018 Jean Coulthard Readings. Named in honour of one of [...]
Vancouver, BC - "Music Director Designate Otto Tausk and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra President Kelly Tweeddale announced today the VSO's 2018/2019 100th Anniversary Season. One hundred years in the making, the season will honour the orchestra's rich past, celebrate its role as an innovator and one of Canada's leading orchestras, and launch the next centenary chapter [...]
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. [...]