Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director since its founding to reflect on events during their tenure. Heather Pawsey is a celebrated soprano, a long-serving member of the CMC in BC's [...]
Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director since its founding to reflect on events during their tenure. Bob Baker was CMC BC's Director from 2009 until 2015. It was a tremendous honour [...]
From November 2-8, 2017, Canada welcomes the world as Vancouver hosts the ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Since its founding in 1922, the International Society for Contemporary Music has been the world’s premier network for new music. Each year, its festival is hosted in a different city around the globe. Next month, the Canadian League of [...]
Dedicated to BC Legacy Composer Barbara Pentland, CMC BC's unique Pentland Awards seek to recognize extraordinary contributions to Canadian music, excellence in composition, and outstanding performances of Canadian music in the Province of BC through four distinct awards. On Wednesday March 22, 2017, Langley Community Music School held its annual Young Composers Competition, adjudicated by Rodney [...]
Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director over that time to reflect on events during their tenure. Colin Miles was the CMC's BC Director from October 1978 until December 2009. An [...]
[envira-gallery id="2709"]Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director over that time to reflect on events during their tenure. Christine Purvis was the first BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, working [...]
Forty years ago, in 1976, the national Board of Directors of the Canadian Music Centre formed an ad hoc British Columbia Committee, consisting of Allen E. Clingman, Robert Creech, Dennis Tupman, and Christine Callon. (Twenty-four others were part of that effort, including George Laverock, the current chair of CMC BC Regional Advisory Council.) Thanks to their [...]
Montreal's Quasar Saxophone Quartet brings its “Territoires sonores” project to Vancouver's Western Front at 303 - 8th Ave. East in Vancouver this evening at 5pm where four Canadian composers – Rebecca Bruton (Alberta), Émilie Girard-Charest (Quebec), Alec Hall (Ontario), and William Kuo (British Columbia) – will present the results of their research and creation residency. The [...]
CMC BC’s Victoria Engagement Leader, Christopher Reiche Boucher, has accepted a new position as Librarian with the Victoria Symphony. We wish Christopher every success in the new position, and are pleased to announce he’s agreed to continue in his position as CMC BC’s Victoria Engagement Leader, albeit with reduced hours. In line with that change, [...]
In Vancouver Classical Music blog's 2017-2018 Season Preview, Geoffrey Newman notes a Renaissance of new music in Vancouver: "New Music seems to be everywhere in the city these days. In addition to the VSO New Music Festival in January, by far the biggest event sees Vancouver hosting the 2017 ISCM World New Music Days, featuring concerts [...]