The Canadian Music Centre BC (CMC BC) is pleased to announce Season 4, with six unforgettable concerts celebrating seven outstanding composers: Jacqueline Leggatt, Jocelyn Morlock, Jordan Nobles, Ernst Schneider, Ross Alden, Stephen Chatman, and Leila Lustig. This 2019 - 2020 season is our most ambitious concert season ever, featuring exciting new collaborations with the Okanagan Symphony, [...]
Pictured beneath Martin Creed's installation 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' are members of the Borealis String Quartet with Dr. Jennifer Butler (3rd L); Rennie Museum Director Wendy Chang (4th L); Jordan Nobles (2nd R) & Sean Bickerton (R) from the CMC Last Monday evening, the internationally-celebrated Borealis String Quartet premiered eight new five-minute string quartets [...]
Please join us June 17 for a completely unique evening of music, art, creativity, and camaraderie as we celebrate new voices in a new, completely unique space. https://vimeo.com/338988341 CMC BC is pleased to present the world premiere of 8 new 5-Minute String Quartets performed by Borealis String Quartet in the architecturally stunning Rennie Museum [...]
I met Alexina Louie many years ago in New York. Two of the pianists I managed at Columbia Artists Management — Ralph Markham & Kenneth Broadway — were performing a suite she had written on tour. It featured a movement beautifully evocative of gamelan music and I’ve never forgotten it. I had never before heard [...]
On Friday night, May 10, 2019, three winners of Chor Leoni's C4 Competition received Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition. Jordan Nobles, CMC Associate Composer and CMC BC Librarian was on hand to present the awards to composers Kevin Pirker, Elizabeth Knudson, and Allan Bevan. L-R: CMC BC's Jordan Nobles presenting Pentland Awards to C4 [...]
Join us Monday evening, June 17 at 7pm in the architecturally spectacular rennie museum for '8 x 5' — a special evening featuring the world premiere of eight new, five-minute string quartets performed by the internationally renowned Borealis String Quartet. Experience these eight new quartets written by emerging composers, surrounded by the galleries of art [...]
Conductor and Composer Jon Washburn was presented with CMC BC's 2019 Barbara Pentland Lifetime Achievement Award at his final concert conducting the Vancouver Chamber Choir as Music Director Friday night, May 10. My remarks in presenting the award to Jon follow: It would be impossible to conceive of anyone on this Earth more deserving of the Canadian [...]
(pictured above: five winners of Grade Five Song-Writing Competition) On Friday night, May 10, 2019, CMC BC presented Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition to winners of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Young Composers Competition. BC Director presenting Antoine Villéger with Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence BC Director Sean Bickerton, on hand [...]
CMC BC is pleased to welcome three new members to the BC Advisory Council of the Canadian Music Centre, who were were elected at the BC Annual Meeting held on Monday, April 15, 2019 in CMC BC's Murray Adaskin Salon. The new Council members are Rosemary Thompson, Music Director of the Okanagan Symphony; and Joanne Harada, former VP [...]
A Letter From CMC President & CEO, Glenn Hodgins Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Canadian Music Centre’s digital magazine, CMC Résonance! For 60 years, the CMC has been a voice and home for contemporary Canadian composers. Our goal for CMC Résonance is to create a new space to celebrate artistic communities, supporters, and [...]