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A Time For Reflection And Renewal

Dear Friends, I'm writing this on Thursday, December 10, 2020, as this terrible year slowly begins to wind down. Like many of you, we here at CMC BC have been so busy responding to the urgent crisis that overtook us all at the beginning of the year that it is perhaps only now that  we [...]

By |2020-12-10T14:24:22-08:0010 December 2020|Categories: News|

CMC BC Elects More Diverse Advisory Council

Members elected a more diverse Advisory Council at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre in BC, including Indigenous and GLBTQ2S+ representation, a preponderance of women, and growing participation by racialized minorities. The new Chair of the Council is composer Jennifer Butler, elected with the members listed below. As Jennifer Butler stated: "Composers work [...]

By |2020-11-12T10:11:56-08:0012 November 2020|Categories: News|

CMC BC’s First Online Annual Meeting

CMC BC held the organization's first-ever online Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 27, at 7pm, the meeting being delayed into the Fall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the meeting, composer Jennifer Butler was elected Chair of the BC Advisory Council, replacing composer Keith Hamel, who has stepped down after more than thirty [...]

By |2020-11-05T14:57:12-08:005 November 2020|Categories: News|

Marnie Carter Honoured with Barbara Pentland 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award

Philanthropist, pianist, teacher, and founder of the Deux Mille Foundation, Marnie Carter, was awarded the Canadian Music Centre's Barbara Pentland 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music on Tuesday, October 27 at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre in BC. (Marnie Carter is pictured above with her daughter, Beth Carter, Beth's [...]

By |2020-11-05T14:49:50-08:005 November 2020|Categories: News|

The Fall Of 2020

Does the title of this article — The Fall Of 2020 — sound a little too dire? I didn't mean it to, when we have so much good news to share. I wrote it thinking about the time of year, not realizing then how ominous it sounded. But afterwards I decided that making do with what [...]

By |2020-10-01T11:53:01-07:001 October 2020|Categories: News|

Saturday In The Park With Mark

On Saturday, September 19, I had the rare pleasure of reading ten poems I wrote during lockdown, accompanied by one of this city's great musicians — flutist-extraordinaire (and WCMA’s new Classical Musician of the Year!) Mark Takeshi McGregor — in George Wainborn Park. Here is a short video of two: https://vimeo.com/461665607 Our improvised beat poetry [...]

Introducing New CMC BC Administrator Heather Molloy

The Canadian Music Centre in BC is excited to introduce our new BC Administrator, Heather Molloy. Heather Molloy joins CMC BC with a strong background in arts administration, having worked in a supervisory role in the box office at Bard on the Beach; as well as for Applause: Dinner Theatre; Vancouver International Film Festival; and the Old Auditorium [...]

By |2020-08-17T10:01:07-07:0017 August 2020|Categories: News|

Wishing You All The Joy That Summer Can Offer

I thought it would be helpful to provide a brief update on our plans for the rest of the summer as we take some time to allow staff a needed break and begin to prepare for the fall. Today marks the last release until September of our Unaccompanied Online Concert Series, which has run continuously with [...]

By |2020-07-23T13:41:35-07:0023 July 2020|Categories: News|

First Annual Elliot Weisgarber Workshop

The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce the First Annual Elliot Weisgarber Workshops, a free online seminar for emerging composers under 30. Drawing on the success of our Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings, the Elliot Weisgarber Workshops are grounded in Weisgarber’s landmark work, fusing Western and Eastern instruments and performance practices. The [...]

By |2020-06-25T16:53:51-07:0025 June 2020|Categories: News|

Looking Back, Moving Forward

Greetings! Having survived the Ides of March and a Spring that seemed so full of peril, I thought we should take a brief look back to review what we've managed to accomplish over the past six months or so, as well as cast our gaze ahead towards some of our plans for the coming Summer [...]

By |2020-06-25T16:10:43-07:0025 June 2020|Categories: News|
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